Riven with Katarina
How to Synergize Riven and Katarina
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Riven Katarina Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Riven with Katarina
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 Katarina Will Play
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Riven Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Riven in LoL
The Riven Katarina synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Katarina, 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 Katarina. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Katarina helps Riven perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven tries to synergize with Katarina, she gets a barely noticable drop in her total damage output. This change may indicate that Katarina does not help cover for her to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played alongside Katarina on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Katarina. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Katarina.
Additionally, when Riven plays with Katarina on the same team, she on average takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Katarina does a decent job of covering Riven in team fights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Riven that will always be her top ally. Yet, overall, Katarina is a below average teammate for Riven. By being on the same team as Riven, she drops their win rate by -1.2% to 48.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative bond between Riven and Katarina that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Katarina has a lower difficulty than Riven. That means Riven players don't need to be very careful when arranging Katarina allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting alongside, Riven players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by grouping Riven and Katarina together, you will not be providing your other allies a lot of support. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Katarina teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should 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 Katarina during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to have in your Riven and Katarina synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Death's Dance, and Eclipse. When Riven incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Katarina than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Riven had an average win rate of 48.9% when playing alongside Katarina with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Riven players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.9% win rate overall.
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