Riven with Illaoi
How to Synergize Riven and Illaoi
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Riven Illaoi Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Riven with Illaoi
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 Illaoi Will Play
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
Riven Illaoi Synergy Stats
How to Play with Illaoi as Riven in LoL
The Riven Illaoi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Illaoi, 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 Illaoi. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Illaoi helps Riven perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven is an ally to Illaoi, she observes a barely noticable drop in her complete damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Illaoi does not help cover for her to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played alongside Illaoi on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Illaoi. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Illaoi.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Illaoi on the same side, she typically takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Illaoi does a poor job of covering Riven during teamfights.
Synergies between Riven and Illaoi
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Is Riven better when played alongside Illaoi?
There is no one best champion pairing for Riven that will no matter what be her best ally. Yet, Illaoi is a terrible teammate for Riven. By playing on the same team as Riven, she drops their win rate by -3.2% to 46.9%. This proves that there is a very bad bond between Riven and Illaoi that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Illaoi has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means Riven players don't need to be careful when enlisting Illaoi teammates to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working cooperatively, Riven players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by pairing Riven and Illaoi together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a lot of magic damage. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Illaoi ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Riven in order to work well with Illaoi during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to have in your Riven and Illaoi synergy build include Spear of Shojin, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Illaoi than with many other common item sets. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 46.9% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Illaoi with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability 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. Out of all the runes players used for Riven and Illaoi pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.9% win rate overall.
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