Riven with Graves
How to Synergize Riven and Graves
based on 5,163 Riven with Graves pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Riven Graves Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Graves
Tips for Playing as Riven with Graves
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 Graves Will Play
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
Riven Graves Synergy Stats
How to Play with Graves as Riven in LoL
The Riven Graves synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Graves, 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 Graves. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Graves helps Riven perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven tries to synergize with Graves, she observes a little decrease in her full damage output. This change may signal that Graves does not support by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played alongside Graves on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Graves.
Additionally, when Riven plays with Graves on the same side, she often takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Graves does a decent job of protecting Riven in team fights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Graves?
There is no one best champion pairing for Riven that will no matter what be her best synergy. However, overall, Graves is a decent ally for Riven. By playing on the same team as Riven, he increases their win rate by 1.2% to 51.3%. This shows that there is a somewhat important bond between Riven and Graves that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Graves has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Graves teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working alongside, Riven players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Riven and Graves together, you may not be granting your other teammates a lot of magic damage. Plan to bring other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Graves ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will 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 to work well with Graves during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Riven and Graves synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Maw of Malmortius, and Eclipse. When Riven combined at least these three finished items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting alongside Graves than with most other typical builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 51.3% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Graves with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating 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 builds we have analyed for Riven and Graves pairings, this set of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.3% win rate overall.
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