Rakan with Riven
How to Synergize Rakan and Riven
based on 3,595 Rakan with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Rakan Riven Synergy Summary
Best Rakan vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Rakan and Riven
Tips for Playing as Rakan with Riven
Rakan's dash speeds increase with his Move Speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
Rakan requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
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.
Rakan Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Rakan in LoL
The Rakan 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, Rakan 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 Rakan perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Rakan tries to synergize with Riven, he gets a small decrease in his full damage dealt. This change may indicate that Riven doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Rakan is played with Riven on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Riven.
Moreover, when Rakan plays with Riven on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Riven does a decent job of protecting Rakan during team fights.
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Is Rakan better when played alongside Riven?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Rakan that will always be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Riven is a very typical teammate for Rakan. By locking into the same team as Rakan, she raises their win rate by 0.4% to 51.0%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between Rakan and Riven that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Riven has a greater difficulty than Rakan. That means you should be careful when finding Riven teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing on the same side, Rakan players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to buff allies and debuff enemies. Together, these champions will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Conversely, by grouping Rakan and Riven together, you may not be granting your side much magical damage output. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Riven ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Rakan in order to synergize with Riven during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Rakan and Riven synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Rakan included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Riven than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Rakan boasted an average win rate of 51.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Riven with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, Rakan players should take the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Ultimate Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Rakan and Riven pairings, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.0% winrate overall.
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