Riven with Blitzcrank
How to Synergize Riven and Blitzcrank
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Riven Blitzcrank Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Blitzcrank
Tips for Playing as Riven with Blitzcrank
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 Blitzcrank Will Play
Using Blitzcrank's grab to pull an enemy into your tower range followed by a Power Fist will allow the tower to get several hits on them.
The 1-2-3 combo of Rocket Grab, Power Fist, and Static Field can devastate an individual opponent.
Riven Blitzcrank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Blitzcrank as Riven in LoL
The Riven Blitzcrank synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Blitzcrank, 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 Blitzcrank. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Blitzcrank helps Riven perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven tries to synergize with Blitzcrank, she sees a small increase in her full damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Blitzcrank provides protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played with Blitzcrank on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Blitzcrank. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Blitzcrank.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Blitzcrank on the same side, she usually takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Blitzcrank does a decent job of protecting Riven during team fights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Blitzcrank?
There is no one best companion for Riven that will 100% of the time be her #1 synergy. However, overall, Blitzcrank is a decent teammate for Riven. By being on the same team as Riven, he increases their win rate by 1.1% to 51.2%. This proves that there is pretty good bond between Riven and Blitzcrank that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Blitzcrank has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means Riven players don't need to be cautious when finding Blitzcrank comrades to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, Riven players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these champions will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by aligning Riven and Blitzcrank together, you probably will not be providing your team enough magic damage. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Blitzcrank ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing 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 Riven to work well with Blitzcrank during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to focus on in your Riven and Blitzcrank synergy build include Maw of Malmortius, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Riven included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Blitzcrank than with most other common item sets. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 51.2% helping carry Blitzcrank with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, Riven players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.2% win rate overall.
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