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How to Synergize Riven and Nilah

based on 1,799 Riven with Nilah pairs
Win Rate
52 %
K/D/A
1.96
Pick Rate
1.5 %

How We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL

At MOBA Champion, we download the results of from millions of League of Legends rounds straight from Riot Games each week. Riven has gone into battle with Nilah in 1799 recently played, competitive games. By gathering so much great data from the makers of League, we are totally sure that we can present to you high-quality, usable builds to help Riven play with Nilah. It is relatively rare for Riven to play with Nilah as teammates. This pairing has only happened in about 1.5% of rounds with Riven.

Riven Nilah Synergy Summary

Riven does a good job of playing alongside Nilah. On average, she wins a terrific 52.0% of the time the champs fight together on the same side. If you want to do better as Riven when playing alongside Nilah by learning how to better synergize your tactics with them, then look into the full build (with items, runes, summoner spells, and skills) below!

Best Riven vs Nilah Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Doran's BladeHealth Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
PickaxeCaulfield's Warhammer

Core Riven Items

~22 Mins
Spear of ShojinSundered SkyEclipse

Optional Items

Death's DanceBlack CleaverRavenous Hydra

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonerdot summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Riven to level upq
>
Second ability for Riven to level upe
>
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
2
W
3
E
4
Q
5
Q
6
R
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Q
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Nilah

Tips for Playing as Riven with Nilah

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.

Riven Nilah Synergy Stats

Riven Image
Win Rate
52 %
VS
Win Rate
48 %
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6.7
< Kills >
6.9
5.7
< Deaths >
5.9
4.5
< Assists >
4.6
1.53
< Killing Sprees >
1.57
174
< Minions Killed >
178
0.06
< Dragons Killed >
0.07
0.44
< Inhibitors >
0.44
18,495
< Physical Damage >
18,993
60
< Magic Damage >
57
1,088
< True Damage >
1,134
19,644
< Damage Dealt >
20,184
24,017
< Damage Taken >
24,940
11,844
< Gold Earned >
12,150
2.23
< Towers >
2.25
0.02
< Baron Takedowns >
0.02
5,011
< Total Healing >
5,340
14,690
< Experience >
14,980
16
< Vision Score >
16
8
< Wards Placed >
8
124
< Time Dealing CC >
128

How to Play with Nilah as Riven in LoL

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

When Riven tries to synergize with Nilah, she sees a small decrease in her full damage output. This may indicate that Nilah does not support by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that their support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played with Nilah on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Nilah. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Nilah.

Moreover, when Riven plays with Nilah on the same side, she often takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Nilah does a decent job of protecting Riven during teamfights.

Synergies between Riven and Nilah

Damage Types Compared

Riven
Nilah
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Contrasted

Riven
Nilah

Is Riven better when played alongside Nilah?

There is no perfect companion for Riven that will always be her best ally. Yet, Nilah is a decent teammate for Riven. By being on the same side as Riven, they increases their win rate by 1.9% to 52.0%. This shows that there is a somewhat important bond between Riven and Nilah that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.

Nilah has a greater difficulty than Riven. That means Riven players must be careful when enlisting Nilah teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to work well with you.

When playing alongside, Riven players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.

Although, by aligning Riven and Nilah together, you will not be providing your side very much magical damage output. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.

Regardless of the ability of your Nilah teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.

Additional Information for Riven Players

How We Calculated Our Riven Nilah Synergy Build and Stats

For this guide on pairing Riven and Nilah, we analyzed 1,799 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 Nilah 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 Nilah during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.

The top items to have in your Riven and Nilah synergy build consist of Spear of Shojin, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven used at least these three finished items in her build, she did much better when fighting alongside Nilah than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 52.0% when playing alongside Nilah with these items in her kit.

To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, Riven players should use 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 yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.0% winrate overall.

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