Riven with Kayn
How to Synergize Riven and Kayn
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Riven Kayn Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Kayn
Tips for Playing as Riven with Kayn
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 Kayn Will Play
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
Riven Kayn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kayn as Riven in LoL
The Riven Kayn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kayn, 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 Kayn. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Kayn helps Riven perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven is an ally to Kayn, she sees a little drop in her total damage output. This change could indicate that Kayn does not help protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played with Kayn on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Kayn. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Kayn.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Kayn on the same team, she usually receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Kayn does a poor job of protecting Riven in team fights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Kayn?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Riven that will no matter what be her top synergy. Yet, Kayn is a not very good companion for Riven. By locking into the same team as Riven, he lowers their win rate by -1.1% to 49.0%. This signals that there is a harmful synergy between Riven and Kayn that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Kayn has a lower difficulty than Riven. That means Riven players don't need to be very careful when lining up Kayn teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by pairing Riven and Kayn together, you probably will not be granting your other allies much magic damage. Plan to include other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Kayn ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold 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 synergize with Kayn during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to build first in your Riven and Kayn synergy build include Ravenous Hydra, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven included at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Kayn than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Riven had an average winrate of 49.0% when playing alongside Kayn with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, Riven players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Riven and Kayn pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.0% win rate overall.
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