Riven with Kog'Maw
How to Synergize Riven and Kog'Maw
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Riven Kog'Maw Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Kog'Maw
Tips for Playing as Riven with Kog'Maw
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 Kog'Maw Will Play
Make the most out of your Icathian Surprise.
Use Void Ooze to set up a perfect Living Artillery.
Kog'Maw can outrange most champions with his Bio-Arcane Barrage ability.
Riven Kog'Maw Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kog'Maw as Riven in LoL
The Riven Kog'Maw synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kog'Maw, 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 Kog'Maw. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kog'Maw helps Riven perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Riven is paired with Kog'Maw, she gets a marginal improvement in her complete damage output. This could indicate that Kog'Maw helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played with Kog'Maw on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Kog'Maw. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Kog'Maw.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Kog'Maw on the same team, she often takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Kog'Maw does a poor job of covering Riven in team fights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Kog'Maw?
There is no perfect synergy for Riven that will 100% of the time be her best synergy. Yet, Kog'Maw is a very typical ally for Riven. By playing on the same team as Riven, he raises their win rate by 0.1% to 50.2%. This signals that there is only a small bond between Riven and Kog'Maw that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Kog'Maw has a lower difficulty than Riven. That means Riven players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Kog'Maw allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by aligning Riven and Kog'Maw together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a lot of magical damage output. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Kog'Maw ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Riven to work well with Kog'Maw during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Riven and Kog'Maw synergy build include Death's Dance, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better as an ally of Kog'Maw than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 50.2% when playing alongside Kog'Maw with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, you 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 picked for Riven and Kog'Maw pairings, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.2% win rate overall.
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