Nidalee with Riven
How to Synergize Nidalee and Riven
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Nidalee Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nidalee and Riven
Tips for Playing as Nidalee with Riven
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
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.
Nidalee Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Nidalee in LoL
The Nidalee 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, Nidalee sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Riven. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Riven helps Nidalee perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nidalee tries to synergize with Riven, she gets a small increase in her total damage output. This change may signal that Riven helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Nidalee is played together with Riven on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Riven.
Additionally, when Nidalee plays with Riven on the same team, she typically takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Riven does a decent job of covering Nidalee during team fights.
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Is Nidalee better when played alongside Riven?
There is no perfect ally for Nidalee that will always be her #1 synergy. However, Riven is a very typical companion for Nidalee. By being on the same side as Nidalee, she drops their win rate by -0.1% to 44.7%. This demonstrates that there is only a small strategic relationship between Nidalee and Riven that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Riven has a lower difficulty than Nidalee. That means Nidalee players don't need to be careful when lining up Riven allies to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by aligning Nidalee and Riven together, you will not be giving your other allies very much support. Make sure to include other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Riven ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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
If you would like to truly master Nidalee to pair well with Riven during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to have in your Nidalee and Riven synergy build consist of Lich Bane, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee combined at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Riven than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average winrate of 44.7% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Riven with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, Nidalee players should equip the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 44.7% winrate overall.
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