Riven with Nunu & Willump
How to Synergize Riven and Nunu & Willump
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Riven Nunu & Willump Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Riven with Nunu & Willump
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 Nunu & Willump Will Play
Consume allows Nunu to stay in a lane against ranged opponents.
You can choose to interrupt Absolute Zero early for partial damage if an opponent is about to run out of range.
It's often beneficial to delay the casting of Absolute Zero until the initial round of disables are used. Try to hang back before rushing into a team fight.
Riven Nunu & Willump Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nunu & Willump as Riven in LoL
The Riven Nunu & Willump synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nunu & Willump, 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 Nunu & Willump. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Nunu & Willump helps Riven perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Riven tries to synergize with Nunu & Willump, she observes a marginal improvement in her complete damage dealt. This could indicate that Nunu & Willump provides protection for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played together with Nunu & Willump on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Nunu & Willump.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Nunu & Willump on the same side, she often receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Nunu & Willump does a decent job of covering Riven during team fights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Nunu & Willump?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Riven that will no matter what be her #1 ally. However, Nunu & Willump is a very typical teammate for Riven. By playing on the same side as Riven, he has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 50.1%. This proves that there is not really a strong bond between Riven and Nunu & Willump that allows them to perform at the same level together than alone.
Nunu & Willump has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means Riven players don't need to be careful when finding Nunu & Willump comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Riven players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by pairing Riven and Nunu & Willump together, you probably will not be giving your other allies enough magical damage output. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Nunu & Willump ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 in order to synergize with Nunu & Willump during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to prioritize in your Riven and Nunu & Willump synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Death's Dance. When Riven incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Nunu & Willump than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 50.1% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Nunu & Willump with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Riven and Nunu & Willump pairings, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.1% winrate overall.
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