Riven with Malzahar
How to Synergize Riven and Malzahar
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Riven Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Riven with Malzahar
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 Malzahar Will Play
Use Call of the Void and Nether Grasp to renew the duration of Malefic Visions on enemies.
Wait to cast Void Swarm until there are nearby enemies for the Voidling to attack or kill.
Avoiding damage in lane maximizes the uptime on Void Shift, increasing Malzahar's safety dramatically.
Riven Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Riven in LoL
The Riven Malzahar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Malzahar, 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 Malzahar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Malzahar helps Riven perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Riven plays on the same team as Malzahar, she sees a little increase in her full damage output. This change may signal that Malzahar supports by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played together with Malzahar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Malzahar. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Malzahar.
Additionally, when Riven plays with Malzahar on the same side, she typically receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Malzahar does a poor job of covering Riven in teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Riven that will no matter what be her #1 ally. However, overall, Malzahar is a very typical ally for Riven. By locking into the same side as Riven, he has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 50.1%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between Riven and Malzahar that allows them to perform at the same level together than without each other.
Malzahar has a lower difficulty than Riven. That means Riven players don't need to be very careful when finding Malzahar comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to do well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Riven players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Riven and Malzahar together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates enough tankyness. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Malzahar teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Riven to work well with Malzahar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to have in your Riven and Malzahar synergy build include Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Death's Dance. When Riven bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Malzahar than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 50.1% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Malzahar with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Riven and Malzahar pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.1% winrate overall.
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