Riven with Aphelios
How to Synergize Riven and Aphelios
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Riven Aphelios Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Riven with Aphelios
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 Aphelios Will Play
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Riven Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Riven in LoL
The Riven Aphelios synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aphelios, 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 very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aphelios. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Aphelios helps Riven perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven tries to synergize with Aphelios, she gets a small decrease in her total damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Aphelios does not help protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played alongside Aphelios 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 alongside Aphelios.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Aphelios on the same team, she often receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Aphelios does a decent job of protecting Riven during teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Riven that will always be her best synergy. Yet, Aphelios is a not very good companion for Riven. By being on the same side as Riven, he drops their win rate by -1.7% to 48.4%. This shows that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Riven and Aphelios that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Aphelios has a greater difficulty than Riven. That means you need to be cautious when enlisting Aphelios teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working alongside, Riven players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by grouping Riven and Aphelios together, you may not be providing your other allies enough magic damage. Plan to include other champions on your team that fills this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Aphelios ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Riven to synergize with Aphelios during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to use in your Riven and Aphelios synergy build include Maw of Malmortius, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Riven combined at least these three items in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Aphelios than with most other common item sets. In fact, Riven had an average winrate of 48.4% helping carry Aphelios with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.4% winrate overall.
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