Riven with Nidalee
How to Synergize Riven and Nidalee
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Riven Nidalee Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Riven with Nidalee
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 Nidalee Will Play
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
Riven Nidalee Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nidalee as Riven in LoL
The Riven Nidalee synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nidalee, 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 Nidalee. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Nidalee helps Riven perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Riven tries to synergize with Nidalee, she sees a small increase in her full damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Nidalee supports by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played together with Nidalee on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Nidalee.
Additionally, when Riven plays with Nidalee on the same side, she on average receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that Nidalee does a poor job of covering Riven in teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Nidalee?
There is no one best ally for Riven that will 100% of the time be her best ally. Yet, Nidalee is a terrible ally for Riven. By locking into the same team as Riven, she lowers their win rate by -5.4% to 44.7%. This demonstrates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Riven and Nidalee that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Nidalee has a lower difficulty than Riven. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Nidalee allies to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing together, Riven players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by grouping Riven and Nidalee together, you may not be giving your other teammates much support. We recommend you have other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Nidalee ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, 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 truly master Riven in order to work well with Nidalee during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to prioritize in your Riven and Nidalee synergy build include Death's Dance, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven incorporated at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Nidalee than with many other common builds. In fact, Riven had an average win rate of 44.7% helping carry Nidalee with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 44.7% win rate overall.
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