Riven with Pantheon
How to Synergize Riven and Pantheon
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Riven Pantheon Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Pantheon
Tips for Playing as Riven with Pantheon
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 Pantheon Will Play
Mortal Will activates after 5 spells or basic attacks - plan your way through fights to allow you to activate it more than once.
Whittle the enemy down with Comet Spears before you jump in.
If an enemy is going to get out of range of your Aegis Assault, you can recast the spell to immediately fire the shield slam.
Riven Pantheon Synergy Stats
How to Play with Pantheon as Riven in LoL
The Riven Pantheon synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Pantheon, 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 Pantheon. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Pantheon helps Riven perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Riven tries to synergize with Pantheon, she observes a barely noticable drop in her complete damage dealt. This may indicate that Pantheon does not support by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played together with Pantheon on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Pantheon.
Additionally, when Riven plays with Pantheon on the same team, she usually takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Pantheon does a decent job of protecting Riven during teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Pantheon?
There is no perfect synergy for Riven that will 100% of the time be her #1 teammate. However, Pantheon is a not very good companion for Riven. By being on the same team as Riven, he lowers their win rate by -2.3% to 47.8%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad strategic relationship between Riven and Pantheon that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Pantheon has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Pantheon allies to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Riven players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by pairing Riven and Pantheon together, you probably will not be giving your side a lot of AP. Make sure to have other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Pantheon ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Riven to pair well with Pantheon during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to include in your Riven and Pantheon synergy build include Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Riven incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Pantheon than with many other common builds. In fact, Riven had an average win rate of 47.8% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Pantheon with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Riven and Pantheon pairings, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Pantheon with Riven are presented for all skill levels combined. To scope the statistics and builds to a distinct division, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.