Riven with Kayle
How to Synergize Riven and Kayle
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Riven Kayle Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Kayle
Tips for Playing as Riven with Kayle
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 Kayle Will Play
Kayle benefits greatly from Attack Damage and Ability Power, making hybrid items like Nashor's Tooth and Hextech Gunblade very effective on her.
Using Divine Judgment on a high-DPS ally can turn the tides of battle by giving your ally free reign to attack.
Kayle's attacks become incredibly powerful once she gains attack range from Divine Ascent. Play safe until then.
Riven Kayle Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kayle as Riven in LoL
The Riven Kayle synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kayle, 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 very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kayle. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Kayle helps Riven perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Riven is paired with Kayle, she gets a small decrease in her complete damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Kayle does not support by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that her participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played alongside Kayle on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Kayle. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Kayle.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Kayle on the same side, she often receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Kayle does a decent job of covering Riven during teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Kayle?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Riven that will no matter what be her top teammate. Yet, Kayle is a good companion for Riven. By locking into the same team as Riven, she improves their win rate by 1.0% to 51.1%. This demonstrates that there is a good strategic relationship between Riven and Kayle that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Kayle has a lower difficulty than Riven. That means Riven players don't need to be careful when lining up Kayle allies to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
Working together, Riven players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by aligning Riven and Kayle together, you probably will not be giving your team much crowd control. Make sure to have other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Kayle ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Riven in order to synergize with Kayle during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Riven and Kayle synergy build include Death's Dance, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Kayle than with many other common item sets. In fact, Riven had an average win rate of 51.1% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Kayle with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, Riven players should equip 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 picked for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Kayle with Riven are given for all skill levels combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier on the page.