Nunu & Willump with Riven
How to Synergize Nunu & Willump and Riven
based on 2,963 Nunu & Willump with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nunu & Willump Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nunu & Willump and Riven
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump with Riven
Consume allows Nunu to stay in a lane against ranged opponents.
You can choose to interrupt Absolute Zero early for partial damage if an opponent is about to run out of range.
It's often beneficial to delay the casting of Absolute Zero until the initial round of disables are used. Try to hang back before rushing into a team fight.
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.
Nunu & Willump Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Nunu & Willump in LoL
The Nunu & Willump 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, Nunu & Willump sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Riven. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Riven helps Nunu & Willump perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nunu & Willump tries to synergize with Riven, he gets a little increase in his complete damage output. This difference may indicate that Riven provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Nunu & Willump is played alongside Riven on the same side, 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 Nunu & Willump plays with Riven on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Riven does a decent job of covering Nunu & Willump in teamfights.
Synergies between Nunu & Willump and Riven
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Is Nunu & Willump better when played alongside Riven?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Nunu & Willump that will 100% of the time be his best ally. Yet, Riven is a pretty good companion for Nunu & Willump. By playing on the same team as Nunu & Willump, she improves their win rate by 2.6% to 50.1%. This demonstrates that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Nunu & Willump and Riven that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Riven has a much greater difficulty compared to Nunu & Willump. That means you need to be careful when lining up Riven allies to play with, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Nunu & Willump players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by bringing Nunu & Willump and Riven together, you probably will not be giving your side much magic damage. Make sure to include other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Riven ally, you should focus on maximizing 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
To learn all of the intricacies of Nunu & Willump to pair well with Riven during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to include in your Nunu & Willump and Riven synergy build consist of Frozen Heart, Liandry's Torment, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Nunu & Willump included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Riven than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump boasted an average win rate of 50.1% when playing alongside Riven with this build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Nunu & Willump and Riven pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Riven with Nunu & Willump are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual rank, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.