Rammus with Riven
How to Synergize Rammus and Riven
based on 1,961 Rammus with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Rammus Riven Synergy Summary
Best Rammus vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Rammus and Riven
Tips for Playing as Rammus with Riven
Powerball can be used as an effective escape mechanism.
Tremors and Defensive Ball Curl can be used late in the game to obliterate towers. If you're bogged down in a team fight, it is often valuable to break off and attack the buildings.
Using taunt on a champion by your tower can cause the tower to attack your enemy.
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.
Rammus Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Rammus in LoL
The Rammus 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, Rammus 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 negative change shows that Riven helps Rammus perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Rammus is paired with Riven, he sees a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Riven doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Rammus is played with Riven on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Riven. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Riven.
Moreover, when Rammus plays with Riven on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Riven does a decent job of protecting Rammus in team fights.
Synergies between Rammus and Riven
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Is Rammus better when played alongside Riven?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Rammus that will always be his best ally. Yet, Riven is a very typical teammate for Rammus. By locking into the same side as Rammus, she increases their win rate by 0.4% to 51.3%. This shows that there is not really a strong synergy between Rammus and Riven that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Riven has a greater difficulty than Rammus. That means you should be cautious when enlisting Riven teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. Combined, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by bringing Rammus and Riven together, you probably will not be giving your side a lot of magic damage. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Riven ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Rammus to work well with Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to get in your Rammus and Riven synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Dead Man's Plate. When Rammus incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Riven than with many other common builds. In fact, Rammus boasted an average winrate of 51.3% helping carry Riven with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Rammus players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Unflinching, Triumph, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Rammus and Riven pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.3% winrate overall.
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