Riven with Ryze
How to Synergize Riven and Ryze
based on 944 Riven with Ryze pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Riven Ryze Synergy Summary
Best Riven vs Ryze Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Ryze
Tips for Playing as Riven with Ryze
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 Ryze Will Play
Spell Flux's short cooldown allows it to be used to spread Flux to many enemies.
Use Overload's passive to optimize for maximum damage or maximum speed.
Ryze can move and cast other spells while Realm Warp is charging without cancelling the portal.
Riven Ryze Synergy Stats
How to Play with Ryze as Riven in LoL
The Riven Ryze synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ryze, 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 Ryze. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Ryze helps Riven perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Riven is paired with Ryze, she sees a little drop in her full damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Ryze doesn't help cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played with Ryze on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Ryze. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Ryze.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Ryze on the same team, she often takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Ryze does a decent job of covering Riven during team fights.
Synergies between Riven and Ryze
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Is Riven better when played alongside Ryze?
There is no top ally for Riven that will no matter what be her best teammate. However, Ryze is a very typical companion for Riven. By being on the same side as Riven, he improves their win rate by 0.4% to 50.5%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong bond between Riven and Ryze that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Ryze has a lower difficulty than Riven. That means Riven players don't need to be careful when enlisting Ryze teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working alongside, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by aligning Riven and Ryze together, you may not be giving your other allies a lot of engage. Plan to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Ryze teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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
To learn all of the intricacies of Riven to synergize with Ryze during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to get in your Riven and Ryze synergy build consist of Spear of Shojin, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven included at least these three items in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Ryze than with most other common item sets. In fact, Riven had an average win rate of 50.5% helping carry Ryze with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against 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 rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Ryze with Riven are presented for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a distinct skill level, you can use the selection menu located at the top of this page.