Riven with Ekko
How to Synergize Riven and Ekko
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Riven Ekko Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Ekko
Tips for Playing as Riven with Ekko
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 Ekko Will Play
Chronobreak is a potent escape tool, but it can also be quite powerful when used offensively. Don't underestimate its damage potential.
If you can proc Z-Drive Resonance on an enemy champion, it's worth taking risks to do so. The bonus Move Speed makes it easy to escape.
Phase Dive's dash is a great tool for setting up Ekko's other abilities. Use it to get double hits with Timewinder or get into position to detonate Parallel Convergence.
Riven Ekko Synergy Stats
How to Play with Ekko as Riven in LoL
The Riven Ekko synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ekko, 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 Ekko. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Ekko helps Riven perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Riven is an ally to Ekko, she gets a barely noticable drop in her total damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Ekko does not help protection for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played together with Ekko 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 Ekko.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Ekko on the same team, she often takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Ekko does a decent job of protecting Riven during team fights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Ekko?
There is no perfect ally for Riven that will 100% of the time be her #1 teammate. However, Ekko is a pretty good teammate for Riven. By being on the same side as Riven, he increases their win rate by 1.7% to 51.8%. This proves that there is a somewhat important strategic relationship between Riven and Ekko that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Ekko has a lower difficulty than Riven. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Ekko comrades to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting together, Riven players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by bringing Riven and Ekko together, you will not be granting your team very much AP. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Ekko ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Riven in order to pair well with Ekko during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to build first in your Riven and Ekko synergy build include Maw of Malmortius, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Riven combined at least these three finished items in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Ekko than with most other common item sets. In fact, Riven had an average winrate of 51.8% when playing alongside Ekko with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.8% winrate overall.
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