Riven with Darius
How to Synergize Riven and Darius
based on 489 Riven with Darius pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Riven Darius Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Darius
Tips for Playing as Riven with Darius
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 Darius Will Play
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
Riven Darius Synergy Stats
How to Play with Darius as Riven in LoL
The Riven Darius synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Darius, 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 Darius. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Darius helps Riven perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Riven is an ally to Darius, she sees a little decrease in her complete damage output. This may indicate that Darius doesn't help protection for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played with Darius on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Darius.
Additionally, when Riven plays with Darius on the same side, she often takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Darius does a poor job of protecting Riven during team fights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Darius?
There is no perfect companion for Riven that will no matter what be her top teammate. However, Darius is a terrible companion for Riven. By locking into the same side as Riven, he lowers their win rate by -3.1% to 47.0%. This shows that there is a terrible synergy between Riven and Darius that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Darius has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means Riven players don't need to be careful when enlisting Darius allies to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Riven and Darius together, you will not be granting your team a lot of AP. Plan to have other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Darius teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Riven in order to work well with Darius during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to get in your Riven and Darius synergy build include Spear of Shojin, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven used at least these three finished items in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Darius than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 47.0% helping carry Darius with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, Riven players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.0% win rate overall.
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