Riven with Malphite
How to Synergize Riven and Malphite
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Riven Malphite Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Malphite
Tips for Playing as Riven with Malphite
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 Malphite Will Play
Despite his abilities scaling on Armor, some games require Malphite to get Magic Resist. When those games occur, try getting Aegis of the Legion, Mercury's Treads, and Guardian Angel.
Armor naturally reduces the rate that attacks go through Granite Shield, so Brutal Strikes will strengthen the shield against physical damage.
Riven Malphite Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malphite as Riven in LoL
The Riven Malphite synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Malphite, 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 Malphite. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Malphite helps Riven perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven plays on the same team as Malphite, she sees a small increase in her complete damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Malphite provides protection for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played with Malphite on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Malphite. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Malphite.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Malphite on the same side, she typically takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Malphite does a poor job of protecting Riven in teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Malphite?
There is no perfect companion for Riven that will always be her #1 ally. Yet, Malphite is a relatively poor ally for Riven. By playing on the same side as Riven, he lowers their win rate by -1.6% to 48.5%. This shows that there is a harmful synergy between Riven and Malphite that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Malphite has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Malphite teammates to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. Together, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by aligning Riven and Malphite together, you may not be providing your side enough AP. Make sure to include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Malphite ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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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 work well with Malphite during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to use in your Riven and Malphite synergy build include Black Cleaver, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Malphite than with many other common item sets. In fact, Riven had an average winrate of 48.5% when playing alongside Malphite with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.5% win rate overall.
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