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Riven with Mordekaiser

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How to Synergize Riven and Mordekaiser

based on 1,690 Riven with Mordekaiser pairs
Win Rate
54.7 %
K/D/A
2
Pick Rate
1.4 %

How We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL

Our servers take in the results of from millions of League rounds straight from Riot Games each week. Riven has been on the same team as Mordekaiser in 1690 recently played, competitive games. By amassing so much accurate data from the developers of League of Legends, we are completely sure that we can showcase high-quality, usable builds to help Riven synergize with Mordekaiser. It is very rare for Riven to play with Mordekaiser as allies. This pairing has only taken place in approximately 1.4% of matches with Riven.

Riven Mordekaiser Synergy Summary

Riven does a great job of synergizing with Mordekaiser. Usually, she wins an epic 54.7% of the time the champions play on the same team. If you want to win more matches as Riven when playing alongside Mordekaiser by learning how to better synergize your strategy with him, then review the complete build (with items, runes, summoner spells, and skills) below!

Best Riven vs Mordekaiser Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Doran's BladeHealth Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
PickaxeCaulfield's Warhammer

Core Riven Items

~22 Mins
Black CleaverDeath's DanceEclipse

Optional Items

Sundered SkyProfane HydraSpear of ShojinMaw of Malmortius

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonerdot summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Riven to level upq
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Second ability for Riven to level upe
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Last skill for Riven to max outw

Runes

PrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: TenacityLast Stand
SorceryNimbus CloakTranscendence
Adaptive ForceAdaptive ForceMagic Resist
Riven's passive ability p
Riven's q ability q
Riven's w ability w
Riven's e ability e
Riven's ultimate ability r
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Q
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W
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E
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Q
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Q
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R
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Q
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Mordekaiser

Tips for Playing as Riven with Mordekaiser

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 Mordekaiser Will Play

Hitting multiple champions with the same ability can help quickly activate Darkness Rise.

Offense is your defense. Keep fighting to build up larger Indestructible shields.

Use Realm of Death on a low health enemy to guarantee the kill and keep their stats for the rest of a teamfight.

Riven Mordekaiser Synergy Stats

Riven Image
Win Rate
54.7 %
VS
Win Rate
45.3 %
Mordekaiser Image
7.3
< Kills >
6.9
6.1
< Deaths >
5.9
4.9
< Assists >
4.6
1.63
< Killing Sprees >
1.57
169
< Minions Killed >
178
0.14
< Dragons Killed >
0.07
0.48
< Inhibitors >
0.44
19,202
< Physical Damage >
18,993
49
< Magic Damage >
57
1,141
< True Damage >
1,134
20,392
< Damage Dealt >
20,184
25,639
< Damage Taken >
24,940
12,322
< Gold Earned >
12,150
2.24
< Towers >
2.25
0.03
< Baron Takedowns >
0.02
5,794
< Total Healing >
5,340
14,971
< Experience >
14,980
17
< Vision Score >
16
8
< Wards Placed >
8
132
< Time Dealing CC >
128

How to Play with Mordekaiser as Riven in LoL

The Riven Mordekaiser synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Mordekaiser, 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 Mordekaiser. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Mordekaiser helps Riven perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.

When Riven is paired with Mordekaiser, she gets a small increase in her total damage dealt. This could indicate that Mordekaiser provides cover for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played alongside Mordekaiser on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Mordekaiser.

Additionally, when Riven plays with Mordekaiser on the same team, she typically takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Mordekaiser does a poor job of protecting Riven during team fights.

Synergies between Riven and Mordekaiser

Damage Types Compared

Riven
Mordekaiser
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Contrasted

Riven
Mordekaiser

Is Riven better when played alongside Mordekaiser?

There is no top champion pairing for Riven that will 100% of the time be her ideal synergy. However, overall, Mordekaiser is a superb ally for Riven. By being on the same side as Riven, he raises their win rate by 4.6% to 54.7%. This proves that there is a strong bond between Riven and Mordekaiser that results in them performing better together than without each other.

Mordekaiser has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means Riven players don't need to be careful when lining up Mordekaiser allies to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.

Playing cooperatively, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.

In contrast, by bringing Riven and Mordekaiser together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a lot of magical damage output. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that fills this disparity in their capabilities.

Regardless of the ability of your Mordekaiser teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.

Additional Information for Riven Players

How We Calculated Our Riven Mordekaiser Synergy Build and Stats

For this guide on pairing Riven and Mordekaiser, we analyzed 1,690 ranked and recent League of Legends matches. We perform advanced data cleaning and statistical methods to guarantee that our team synergy stats are accurate and reliable. You can be confident that our recommended build to pair Riven with Mordekaiser comes from actual data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view your division's most relevant stats and build.

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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing

To learn all of the intricacies of Riven to synergize with Mordekaiser during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.

The most important items to use in your Riven and Mordekaiser synergy build include Black Cleaver, Death's Dance, and Eclipse. When Riven combined at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Mordekaiser than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 54.7% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Mordekaiser with this build.

To have the best probability of beating your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Riven and Mordekaiser pairings, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 54.7% win rate overall.

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