Riven with Rek'Sai
How to Synergize Riven and Rek'Sai
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Riven Rek'Sai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Rek'Sai
Tips for Playing as Riven with Rek'Sai
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 Rek'Sai Will Play
Keeping tunnels spread out across the map will ensure you have choices when you want to cast Void Rush.
Cast Burrow before travelling around the map to take advantage of the increased Move Speed and the safety provided by Tremor Sense.
Tremor Sense can warn you of enemies closing in, and is particularly useful when entering enemy territory.
Riven Rek'Sai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rek'Sai as Riven in LoL
The Riven Rek'Sai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rek'Sai, 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 Rek'Sai. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Rek'Sai helps Riven perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven plays on the same team as Rek'Sai, she sees a little drop in her full damage output. This change may signal that Rek'Sai doesn't help protection for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played with Rek'Sai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Rek'Sai.
Additionally, when Riven plays with Rek'Sai on the same side, she on average receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Rek'Sai does a decent job of protecting Riven in team fights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Rek'Sai?
There is no ideal ally for Riven that will no matter what be her #1 ally. However, overall, Rek'Sai is a below average teammate for Riven. By being on the same team as Riven, he drops their win rate by -1.6% to 48.5%. This signals that there is a negative bond between Riven and Rek'Sai that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Rek'Sai has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means Riven players don't need to be very careful when arranging Rek'Sai teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing together, Riven players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by aligning Riven and Rek'Sai together, you probably will not be providing your side a lot of magical damage output. We recommend you include other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Rek'Sai ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Riven to synergize with Rek'Sai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to include in your Riven and Rek'Sai synergy build consist of Death's Dance, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven used at least these three great items in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Rek'Sai than with most other common item sets. In fact, Riven had an average win rate of 48.5% helping carry Rek'Sai with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Riven players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.5% winrate overall.
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