Kayn with Riven
How to Synergize Kayn and Riven
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Kayn Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kayn and Riven
Tips for Playing as Kayn with Riven
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
Advice to Understand How Riven Will Play
Riven lacks a source of healing or strong defense and must compensate with burst combos. Lead into fights with Broken Wings and Ki Burst, while using Valor to escape and absorb counter-harass.
Riven's Broken Wings locks onto the champion your cursor is over at the time of cast. If you want to move past your opponent, make sure that your cursor is past your opponent as well.
Kayn Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Kayn in LoL
The Kayn Riven synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Riven, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Kayn sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Riven. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Riven helps Kayn perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kayn is an ally to Riven, he sees a small decrease in his total damage output. This difference may indicate that Riven does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Kayn is played with Riven on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Riven.
Moreover, when Kayn plays with Riven on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Riven does a decent job of protecting Kayn in team fights.
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Is Kayn better when played alongside Riven?
There is no perfect synergy for Kayn that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Riven is a very typical ally for Kayn. By locking into the same team as Kayn, she decreases their win rate by -0.2% to 49.0%. This proves that there is not really a strong synergy between Kayn and Riven that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Riven has a lower difficulty than Kayn. That means Kayn players don't need to be careful when enlisting Riven comrades to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by pairing Kayn and Riven together, you will not be providing your other teammates enough magic damage. Make sure to have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Riven ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kayn to pair well with Riven during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to get in your Kayn and Riven synergy build include Serylda's Grudge, Axiom Arc, and Hubris. When Kayn bought at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Riven than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Kayn had an average winrate of 49.0% when playing alongside Riven with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, you should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Kayn and Riven pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.0% winrate overall.
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