Riven with Brand
How to Synergize Riven and Brand
based on 7,349 Riven with Brand pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Riven Brand Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Brand
Tips for Playing as Riven with Brand
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 Brand Will Play
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
Riven Brand Synergy Stats
How to Play with Brand as Riven in LoL
The Riven Brand synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Brand, 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 Brand. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Brand helps Riven perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven plays on the same team as Brand, she sees a small increase in her full damage output. This may demonstrate that Brand provides protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played with Brand on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Brand. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Brand.
Additionally, when Riven plays with Brand on the same side, she usually receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Brand does a poor job of covering Riven in team fights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Brand?
There is no ideal ally for Riven that will always be her ideal synergy. Yet, Brand is a pretty good ally for Riven. By playing on the same side as Riven, he raises their win rate by 2.0% to 52.1%. This proves that there is pretty good bond between Riven and Brand that results in them performing better together than alone.
Brand has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means Riven players don't need to be careful when enlisting Brand comrades to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by aligning Riven and Brand together, you will not be granting your team very much tankyness. We recommend you have other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Brand teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Riven in order to synergize with Brand during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to get in your Riven and Brand synergy build include Ravenous Hydra, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven included at least these three great items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Brand than with most other typical builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 52.1% when playing alongside Brand with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Riven players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Ingenious Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.1% winrate overall.
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