Nasus with Riven
How to Synergize Nasus and Riven
based on 565 Nasus with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nasus Riven Synergy Summary
Best Nasus vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nasus and Riven
Tips for Playing as Nasus with Riven
Paying attention to last hitting with Siphoning Strike will have a large impact at the end of a game.
If you're solo, Spirit Fire is a great way to farm a lane. It can be bad if you're in a lane with 2 and you push too far. Find the right balance between Siphoning Strike last hits and AoE farming.
If you have low defenses, people will focus you down even during your ultimate. Try buying some survivability items even in your DPS builds.
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.
Nasus Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Nasus in LoL
The Nasus 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, Nasus sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Riven. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Riven helps Nasus perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nasus is an ally to Riven, he gets a barely noticable drop in his total damage output. This could indicate that Riven does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Nasus is played alongside 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 with Riven.
Additionally, when Nasus plays with Riven on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Riven does a decent job of protecting Nasus during team fights.
Synergies between Nasus and Riven
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Is Nasus better when played alongside Riven?
There is no one best champion pairing for Nasus that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. However, Riven is a below average ally for Nasus. By playing on the same team as Nasus, she lowers their win rate by -2.7% to 47.6%. This demonstrates that there is a bad strategic relationship between Nasus and Riven that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Riven has a greater difficulty than Nasus. That means Nasus players must be careful when arranging Riven teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting together, Nasus players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by pairing Nasus and Riven together, you will not be giving your team very much utility. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Riven ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Nasus in order to pair well with Riven during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to build first in your Nasus and Riven synergy build consist of Spirit Visage, Trinity Force, and Frozen Heart. When Nasus used at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Riven than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Nasus boasted an average winrate of 47.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Riven with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Nasus and Riven pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Riven with Nasus are shown for every ranked division. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.