Riven with Poppy
How to Synergize Riven and Poppy
based on 1,155 Riven with Poppy pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Riven Poppy Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Poppy
Tips for Playing as Riven with Poppy
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 Poppy Will Play
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
Riven Poppy Synergy Stats
How to Play with Poppy as Riven in LoL
The Riven Poppy synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Poppy, 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 Poppy. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Poppy helps Riven perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven plays on the same team as Poppy, she sees a marginal improvement in her full damage output. This could indicate that Poppy provides protection for her to dish out more damage or that her support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played together with Poppy on the same side, 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 Poppy.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Poppy on the same side, she often takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Poppy does a poor job of covering Riven during team fights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Poppy?
There is no perfect synergy for Riven that will 100% of the time be her top synergy. However, Poppy is a very typical companion for Riven. By playing on the same side as Riven, she increases their win rate by 0.7% to 50.8%. This proves that there is only a small bond between Riven and Poppy that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Poppy has a lower difficulty than Riven. That means Riven players don't need to be cautious when arranging Poppy allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
Working on the same side, Riven players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by bringing Riven and Poppy together, you probably will not be giving your other allies a lot of magic damage. We recommend you have other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Poppy ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your 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 synergize with Poppy during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to have in your Riven and Poppy synergy build include Spear of Shojin, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Riven bought at least these three great items in her build, she did much better when paired up with Poppy than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Riven had an average winrate of 50.8% when playing alongside Poppy with this build.
To have the highest probability 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 runes players used for Riven and Poppy pairings, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.8% winrate overall.
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