Riven with Kassadin
How to Synergize Riven and Kassadin
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Riven Kassadin Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Kassadin
Tips for Playing as Riven with Kassadin
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 Kassadin Will Play
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
Riven Kassadin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kassadin as Riven in LoL
The Riven Kassadin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kassadin, 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 Kassadin. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kassadin helps Riven perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven is paired with Kassadin, she observes a small decrease in her full damage output. This difference could indicate that Kassadin doesn't help protection for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played with Kassadin on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Kassadin. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Kassadin.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Kassadin on the same team, she often takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Kassadin does a decent job of covering Riven during teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Kassadin?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Riven that will always be her top ally. Yet, Kassadin is a relatively poor companion for Riven. By locking into the same side as Riven, he drops their win rate by -1.4% to 48.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative synergy between Riven and Kassadin that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Kassadin has a lower difficulty than Riven. That means Riven players don't need to be very careful when arranging Kassadin comrades to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting alongside, Riven players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Riven and Kassadin together, you may not be granting your other allies very much support. We recommend you have other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Kassadin teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Riven to work well with Kassadin during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to have in your Riven and Kassadin synergy build consist of Spear of Shojin, Death's Dance, and Eclipse. When Riven bought at least these three great items in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Kassadin than with many other common item sets. In fact, Riven had an average winrate of 48.7% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Kassadin with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating 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. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.7% win rate overall.
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