Riven with K'Sante
How to Synergize Riven and K'Sante
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Riven K'Sante Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and K'Sante
Tips for Playing as Riven with K'Sante
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 K'Sante Will Play
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Riven K'Sante Synergy Stats
How to Play with K'Sante as Riven in LoL
The Riven K'Sante synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with K'Sante, 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 K'Sante. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that K'Sante helps Riven perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Riven tries to synergize with K'Sante, she sees a marginal improvement in her full damage output. This could demonstrate that K'Sante supports by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that their presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played with K'Sante on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without K'Sante. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside K'Sante.
Moreover, when Riven plays with K'Sante on the same side, she typically takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that K'Sante does a decent job of protecting Riven in teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside K'Sante?
There is no top champion pairing for Riven that will always be her best teammate. However, K'Sante is a not very good companion for Riven. By locking into the same side as Riven, they decreases their win rate by -1.4% to 48.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative bond between Riven and K'Sante that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
K'Sante has a greater difficulty than Riven. That means Riven players must be very careful when arranging K'Sante allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting alongside, Riven players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by grouping Riven and K'Sante together, you probably will not be providing your side very much magical damage output. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your K'Sante teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Riven to work well with K'Sante during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Riven and K'Sante synergy build include Spear of Shojin, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven included at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside K'Sante than with most other common builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 48.7% when playing alongside K'Sante with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.7% win rate overall.
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