Riven with Naafiri
How to Synergize Riven and Naafiri
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Riven Naafiri Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Naafiri
Tips for Playing as Riven with Naafiri
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 Naafiri Will Play
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Riven Naafiri Synergy Stats
How to Play with Naafiri as Riven in LoL
The Riven Naafiri synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Naafiri, 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 Naafiri. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Naafiri helps Riven perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Riven is an ally to Naafiri, she gets a little drop in her complete damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Naafiri does not help protection for her to dish out more damage or that their presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played with Naafiri on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Naafiri. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Naafiri.
Additionally, when Riven plays with Naafiri on the same side, she usually receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Naafiri does a decent job of covering Riven in team fights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Naafiri?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Riven that will always be her ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Naafiri is a very typical teammate for Riven. By being on the same side as Riven, they decreases their win rate by -0.7% to 49.4%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between Riven and Naafiri that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Naafiri has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means Riven players don't need to be very careful when finding Naafiri allies to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, Riven players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by aligning Riven and Naafiri together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates enough AP. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Naafiri ally, 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, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Riven to synergize with Naafiri during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Riven and Naafiri synergy build include Spear of Shojin, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven included at least these three finished items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Naafiri than with many other common item sets. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 49.4% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Naafiri with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, Riven players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.4% win rate overall.
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