Lucian with Riven
How to Synergize Lucian and Riven
based on 7,574 Lucian with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Lucian Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Lucian and Riven
Tips for Playing as Lucian with Riven
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
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.
Lucian Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Lucian in LoL
The Lucian 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, Lucian sees a large worsening in his 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 Lucian perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Lucian is an ally to Riven, he sees a small decrease in his full damage dealt. This could signal that Riven doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Lucian is played alongside Riven on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Riven.
Additionally, when Lucian plays with Riven on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Riven does a decent job of covering Lucian in team fights.
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Is Lucian better when played alongside Riven?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Lucian that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, overall, Riven is a very typical ally for Lucian. By locking into the same team as Lucian, she improves their win rate by 0.7% to 49.5%. This proves that there is not really a strong bond between Lucian and Riven that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Riven has a greater difficulty than Lucian. That means you should be cautious when enlisting Riven allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by bringing Lucian and Riven together, you probably will not be providing your team a great deal of AP. Plan to have other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Riven teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Lucian to pair well with Riven during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Lucian and Riven synergy build include Rapid Firecannon, Navori Quickblades, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Lucian incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Riven than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Lucian boasted an average win rate of 49.5% helping carry Riven with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Lucian players should equip the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Lucian and Riven pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.5% win rate overall.
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