Leona with Riven
How to Synergize Leona and Riven
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Leona Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Riven
Tips for Playing as Leona with Riven
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Leona in LoL
The Leona Riven synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Riven, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Leona sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Riven. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Riven helps Leona perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Leona tries to synergize with Riven, she gets a little drop in her complete damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Riven does not help cover for her to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played together with Riven on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Riven.
Moreover, when Leona plays with Riven on the same team, she often takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Riven does a decent job of covering Leona during teamfights.
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Is Leona better when played alongside Riven?
There is no ideal companion for Leona that will no matter what be her #1 ally. However, Riven is a relatively poor teammate for Leona. By being on the same side as Leona, she lowers their win rate by -1.1% to 51.1%. This shows that there is a bad bond between Leona and Riven that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Riven has a much greater difficulty compared to Leona. That means you must be careful when enlisting Riven comrades to play with, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting together, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide a lot of utility for your team. Together, these champs will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Conversely, by bringing Leona and Riven together, you will not be granting your other teammates a great deal of magic damage. Plan to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Riven ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Leona to synergize with Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to have in your Leona and Riven synergy build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona used at least these three items in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Riven than with many other common builds. In fact, Leona boasted an average winrate of 51.1% helping carry Riven with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Leona and Riven pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.1% winrate overall.
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