Riven with Nami
How to Synergize Riven and Nami
based on 3,548 Riven with Nami pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Riven Nami Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Nami
Tips for Playing as Riven with Nami
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 Nami Will Play
Nami's ultimate can come in very handy for initiating on enemies who are far away.
Using Ebb and Flow during an engagement with enemy champions will help sway the battle in your favor.
Aqua Prison has a long cooldown, make sure to use it at the right moment.
Riven Nami Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nami as Riven in LoL
The Riven Nami synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nami, 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 Nami. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Nami helps Riven perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Riven plays on the same team as Nami, she gets a small increase in her total damage dealt. This change may indicate that Nami supports by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played alongside Nami on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Nami. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Nami.
Additionally, when Riven plays with Nami on the same side, she typically receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Nami does a poor job of covering Riven in teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Nami?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Riven that will always be her ideal ally. Yet, overall, Nami is a very typical teammate for Riven. By locking into the same team as Riven, she drops their win rate by -0.6% to 49.5%. This shows that there is a weak strategic relationship between Riven and Nami that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Nami has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means Riven players don't need to be cautious when finding Nami allies to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
When playing alongside, Riven players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide a lot of utility for your team. When paired, these champions may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Riven and Nami together, you may not be granting your other allies a lot of magic damage. Plan to bring other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Nami teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, 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 Nami during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Riven and Nami synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Riven used at least these three great items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting alongside Nami than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 49.5% when playing alongside Nami with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.5% winrate overall.
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