Riven with Lucian
How to Synergize Riven and Lucian
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Riven Lucian Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Lucian
Tips for Playing as Riven with Lucian
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 Lucian Will Play
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
Riven Lucian Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lucian as Riven in LoL
The Riven Lucian synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lucian, 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 Lucian. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Lucian helps Riven perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven tries to synergize with Lucian, she sees a little drop in her complete damage dealt. This change may signal that Lucian does not help protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played alongside Lucian on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Lucian.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Lucian on the same side, she on average takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Lucian does a decent job of covering Riven in teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Lucian?
There is no perfect ally for Riven that will 100% of the time be her best ally. Yet, Lucian is a very typical companion for Riven. By locking into the same side as Riven, he drops their win rate by -0.6% to 49.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak synergy between Riven and Lucian that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Lucian has a lower difficulty than Riven. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Lucian comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Riven players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Riven and Lucian together, you will not be granting your side a great deal of magic damage. Plan to include other champs on your team that fills this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Lucian teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 to pair well with Lucian during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to have in your Riven and Lucian synergy build include Ravenous Hydra, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Riven incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Lucian than with many other typical builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 49.5% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Lucian with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Riven players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Ingenious Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Riven and Lucian pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.5% win rate overall.
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