Riven with Olaf
How to Synergize Riven and Olaf
based on 229 Riven with Olaf pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Riven Olaf Synergy Summary
Best Riven vs Olaf Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Olaf
Tips for Playing as Riven with Olaf
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 Olaf Will Play
Olaf can combine Berserker Rage, Vicious Strikes, and Ragnarok at low life to become deceptively strong.
The bonus healing granted by Vicious Strikes amplifies your Life Steal from all sources as well as heals from allies.
Riven Olaf Synergy Stats
How to Play with Olaf as Riven in LoL
The Riven Olaf synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Olaf, 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 Olaf. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Olaf helps Riven perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven tries to synergize with Olaf, she sees a little decrease in her complete damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Olaf does not support by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played alongside Olaf on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Olaf. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Olaf.
Additionally, when Riven plays with Olaf on the same side, she on average takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Olaf does a decent job of covering Riven during teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Olaf?
There is no one best ally for Riven that will always be her #1 ally. However, overall, Olaf is a very bad ally for Riven. By playing on the same team as Riven, he lowers their win rate by -5.1% to 45.0%. This shows that there is a very bad synergy between Riven and Olaf that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Olaf has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means Riven players don't need to be cautious when lining up Olaf teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Riven players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by grouping Riven and Olaf together, you may not be giving your team very much AP. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Olaf ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold 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 learn all of the intricacies of Riven in order to work well with Olaf during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to include in your Riven and Olaf synergy build include Spear of Shojin, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven incorporated at least these three great items in her build, she did much better when fighting alongside Olaf than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Riven had an average win rate of 45.0% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Olaf with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing 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. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Riven and Olaf pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.0% winrate overall.
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