Riven with Hecarim
How to Synergize Riven and Hecarim
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Riven Hecarim Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Hecarim
Tips for Playing as Riven with Hecarim
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 Hecarim Will Play
Devastating Charge deals more damage based on the distance traveled. Try using Onslaught of Shadows or Summoner Spells such as Ghost or Flash to maximize this damage.
Spirit of Dread restores Health when nearby enemies take damage, including damage dealt by allies. Cast this during a large fight to maximize Hecarim's survivability.
Riven Hecarim Synergy Stats
How to Play with Hecarim as Riven in LoL
The Riven Hecarim synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Hecarim, 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 Hecarim. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Hecarim helps Riven perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Riven tries to synergize with Hecarim, she observes a little decrease in her full damage dealt. This change may signal that Hecarim doesn't help protection for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played together with Hecarim on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Hecarim.
Additionally, when Riven plays with Hecarim on the same team, she on average takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Hecarim does a decent job of protecting Riven in teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Hecarim?
There is no top ally for Riven that will always be her best teammate. However, overall, Hecarim is a very typical companion for Riven. By being on the same side as Riven, he lowers their win rate by -0.8% to 49.3%. This proves that there is only a small bond between Riven and Hecarim that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Hecarim has a lower difficulty than Riven. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Hecarim allies to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by pairing Riven and Hecarim together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates much magic damage. Plan to include other champs on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Hecarim teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Riven to work well with Hecarim during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to get in your Riven and Hecarim synergy build include Maw of Malmortius, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Riven included at least these three great items in her build, she did much better when paired up with Hecarim than with most other common builds. In fact, Riven had an average winrate of 49.3% when playing alongside Hecarim with this build.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, Riven players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.3% winrate overall.
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