K'Sante with Riven
How to Synergize K'Sante and Riven
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K'Sante Riven Synergy Summary
Best K'Sante vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing K'Sante and Riven
Tips for Playing as K'Sante with Riven
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
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.
K'Sante Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as K'Sante in LoL
The K'Sante 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, K'Sante sees a very large drop in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Riven. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Riven helps K'Sante perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When K'Sante is paired with Riven, they sees a little decrease in their total damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Riven does not support by providing protection for them to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when K'Sante is played alongside Riven on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays without Riven. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing with Riven.
Moreover, when K'Sante plays with Riven on the same side, they often receives a little less damage than when they plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Riven does a decent job of covering K'Sante during team fights.
Synergies between K'Sante and Riven
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Is K'Sante better when played alongside Riven?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for K'Sante that will no matter what be their top teammate. Yet, overall, Riven is a good ally for K'Sante. By locking into the same side as K'Sante, she increases their win rate by 1.5% to 48.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a somewhat important bond between K'Sante and Riven that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Riven has a lower difficulty than K'Sante. That means K'Sante players don't need to be cautious when arranging Riven teammates to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by bringing K'Sante and Riven together, you will not be giving your team a lot of magical damage output. We recommend you have other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Riven ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master K'Sante to work well with Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to include in your K'Sante and Riven synergy build include Spirit Visage, Sunfire Aegis, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante combined at least these three finished items in their build, they performed significantly better when paired up with Riven than with many other common item sets. In fact, K'Sante boasted an average win rate of 48.7% when synergizing their build and playstyle to Riven with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, K'Sante players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.7% winrate overall.
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