Riven with Amumu
How to Synergize Riven and Amumu
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Riven Amumu Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Amumu
Tips for Playing as Riven with Amumu
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.
Advice to Understand How Amumu Will Play
Despair is very effective against other tanks, so make sure you're in range of opponents with the highest Health.
Amumu is highly dependent on teammates, so try laning with your friends for maximum effectiveness.
Cooldown Reduction on Amumu is very strong, but it's often difficult to itemize for it. Grab the Golem buff whenever possible to gain Cooldown Reduction without sacrificing stats.
Riven Amumu Synergy Stats
How to Play with Amumu as Riven in LoL
The Riven Amumu synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Amumu, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Riven sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Amumu. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Amumu helps Riven perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven is paired with Amumu, she observes a small increase in her complete damage dealt. This could indicate that Amumu provides protection for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played with Amumu on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Amumu.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Amumu on the same side, she on average takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Amumu does a poor job of covering Riven in teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Amumu?
There is no one best companion for Riven that will 100% of the time be her #1 teammate. However, Amumu is a very typical teammate for Riven. By playing on the same side as Riven, he improves their win rate by 0.4% to 50.5%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong bond between Riven and Amumu that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Amumu has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means Riven players don't need to be cautious when lining up Amumu teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Riven players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to support your allies. Combined, these champions may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
In contrast, by pairing Riven and Amumu together, you may not be giving your side a great deal of magic damage. Plan to have other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Amumu ally, you should focus on increasing your gold 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 Riven in order to pair well with Amumu during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to have in your Riven and Amumu synergy build include Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Death's Dance. When Riven included at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when fighting alongside Amumu than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Riven had an average winrate of 50.5% when playing alongside Amumu with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Riven players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Riven and Amumu pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.5% winrate overall.
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