Riven with Rakan
How to Synergize Riven and Rakan
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Riven Rakan Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Rakan
Tips for Playing as Riven with Rakan
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 Rakan Will Play
Rakan's dash speeds increase with his Move Speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
Rakan requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
Riven Rakan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rakan as Riven in LoL
The Riven Rakan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rakan, 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 Rakan. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Rakan helps Riven perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Riven tries to synergize with Rakan, she gets a little increase in her full damage output. This may signal that Rakan supports by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played together with Rakan on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Rakan. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Rakan.
Additionally, when Riven plays with Rakan on the same team, she on average receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Rakan does a decent job of protecting Riven during teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Rakan?
There is no ideal ally for Riven that will 100% of the time be her #1 teammate. However, overall, Rakan is a very typical companion for Riven. By playing on the same side as Riven, he increases their win rate by 0.9% to 51.0%. This proves that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Riven and Rakan that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Rakan has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Rakan comrades to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to buff allies and debuff enemies. Combined, these two should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Conversely, by bringing Riven and Rakan together, you probably will not be giving your team enough AP. We recommend you have other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Rakan ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 Rakan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Riven and Rakan synergy build include Black Cleaver, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when fighting alongside Rakan than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 51.0% helping carry Rakan with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Riven players 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 rune builds players picked for Riven and Rakan pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.0% winrate overall.
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