Olaf with Riven
How to Synergize Olaf and Riven
based on 229 Olaf with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Olaf Riven Synergy Summary
Best Olaf vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Olaf and Riven
Tips for Playing as Olaf with Riven
Olaf can combine Berserker Rage, Vicious Strikes, and Ragnarok at low life to become deceptively strong.
The bonus healing granted by Vicious Strikes amplifies your Life Steal from all sources as well as heals from allies.
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.
Olaf Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Olaf in LoL
The Olaf 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, Olaf sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Riven. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Riven helps Olaf perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Olaf is an ally to Riven, he sees a measurable drop in his total damage output. This could demonstrate that Riven does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Olaf is played alongside Riven on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Riven.
Additionally, when Olaf plays with Riven on the same team, he often takes more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Riven does a poor job of protecting Olaf in teamfights.
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Is Olaf better when played alongside Riven?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Olaf that will always be his top ally. Yet, Riven is a terrible companion for Olaf. By being on the same team as Olaf, she drops their win rate by -4.0% to 45.0%. This demonstrates that there is a terrible bond between Olaf and Riven that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Riven has a much greater difficulty compared to Olaf. That means you need to be careful when enlisting Riven allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to do well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by grouping Olaf and Riven together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates very much AP. Plan to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Riven ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Olaf in order to synergize with Riven during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to use in your Olaf and Riven synergy build consist of Experimental Hexplate, Maw of Malmortius, and Death's Dance. When Olaf combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Riven than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Olaf boasted an average win rate of 45.0% helping carry Riven with this build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Magical Footwear, and Approach Velocity runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 45.0% winrate overall.
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