Riven with Nasus
How to Synergize Riven and Nasus
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Riven Nasus Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Nasus
Tips for Playing as Riven with Nasus
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 Nasus Will Play
Paying attention to last hitting with Siphoning Strike will have a large impact at the end of a game.
If you're solo, Spirit Fire is a great way to farm a lane. It can be bad if you're in a lane with 2 and you push too far. Find the right balance between Siphoning Strike last hits and AoE farming.
If you have low defenses, people will focus you down even during your ultimate. Try buying some survivability items even in your DPS builds.
Riven Nasus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nasus as Riven in LoL
The Riven Nasus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nasus, 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 Nasus. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Nasus helps Riven perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Riven is paired with Nasus, she observes a small decrease in her complete damage output. This change could signal that Nasus does not help cover for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played alongside Nasus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Nasus.
Additionally, when Riven plays with Nasus on the same team, she often takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Nasus does a decent job of covering Riven in team fights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Nasus?
There is no one best champion pairing for Riven that will always be her #1 synergy. Yet, Nasus is a not very good companion for Riven. By locking into the same side as Riven, he decreases their win rate by -2.5% to 47.6%. This demonstrates that there is a bad synergy between Riven and Nasus that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Nasus has a lower difficulty than Riven. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Nasus teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Riven players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Riven and Nasus together, you may not be granting your side enough support. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Nasus ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Riven in order to synergize with Nasus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to include in your Riven and Nasus synergy build include Spear of Shojin, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better as an ally of Nasus than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 47.6% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Nasus with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating 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 that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.6% win rate overall.
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