Riven with Gwen
How to Synergize Riven and Gwen
based on 678 Riven with Gwen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Riven Gwen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Gwen
Tips for Playing as Riven with Gwen
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 Gwen Will Play
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
Riven Gwen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gwen as Riven in LoL
The Riven Gwen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gwen, 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 Gwen. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Gwen helps Riven perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Riven is an ally to Gwen, she gets a barely noticable drop in her complete damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Gwen does not provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that her support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played with Gwen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Gwen. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Gwen.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Gwen on the same side, she on average takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Gwen does a decent job of protecting Riven during team fights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Gwen?
There is no perfect ally for Riven that will always be her best synergy. Yet, Gwen is a relatively poor ally for Riven. By locking into the same side as Riven, she drops their win rate by -2.3% to 47.8%. This shows that there is a harmful bond between Riven and Gwen that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Gwen has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Gwen teammates to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing alongside, Riven players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by grouping Riven and Gwen together, you may not be granting your side a lot of AP. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Gwen ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, 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 synergize with Gwen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to use in your Riven and Gwen synergy build include Spear of Shojin, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Gwen than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 47.8% when playing alongside Gwen with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Riven players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.8% win rate overall.
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