Kindred with Riven
How to Synergize Kindred and Riven
based on 2,147 Kindred with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kindred Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kindred and Riven
Tips for Playing as Kindred with Riven
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
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.
Kindred Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Kindred in LoL
The Kindred Riven synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Riven, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Kindred sees a very large drop in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Riven. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Riven helps Kindred perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kindred plays on the same team as Riven, they gets a marginal improvement in their total damage output. This difference may signal that Riven provides cover for them to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Kindred is played with Riven on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing with Riven.
Moreover, when Kindred plays with Riven on the same side, they usually takes a little less damage than when they fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Riven does a decent job of covering Kindred during team fights.
Synergies between Kindred and Riven
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Is Kindred better when played alongside Riven?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Kindred that will no matter what be their top synergy. Yet, Riven is a good teammate for Kindred. By being on the same team as Kindred, she improves their win rate by 2.2% to 50.5%. This signals that there is pretty good bond between Kindred and Riven that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Riven has a much greater difficulty compared to Kindred. That means Kindred players need to be careful when lining up Riven comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much higher level of skill to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by bringing Kindred and Riven together, you may not be granting your other teammates a lot of magical damage output. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Riven ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Kindred to work well with Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to get in your Kindred and Riven synergy build include Trinity Force, Wit's End, and Terminus. When Kindred incorporated at least these three finished items in their build, they performed much better as an ally of Riven than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Kindred had an average win rate of 50.5% when playing alongside Riven with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Kindred and Riven pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.5% winrate overall.
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