Riven with Samira
How to Synergize Riven and Samira
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Riven Samira Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Samira
Tips for Playing as Riven with Samira
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.
Riven Samira Synergy Stats
How to Play with Samira as Riven in LoL
The Riven Samira synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Samira, 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 Samira. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Samira helps Riven perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Riven is an ally to Samira, she observes a barely noticable drop in her complete damage output. This may signal that Samira does not support by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played together with Samira 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 Samira.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Samira on the same team, she on average takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Samira does a decent job of covering Riven in teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Samira?
There is no one best champion pairing for Riven that will no matter what be her ideal synergy. However, overall, Samira is a below average ally for Riven. By playing on the same side as Riven, she lowers their win rate by -1.9% to 48.2%. This proves that there is a negative bond between Riven and Samira that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Samira has a lower difficulty than Riven. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Samira teammates to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Riven and Samira together, you will not be granting your other allies very much magic damage. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Samira ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 truly master Riven to synergize with Samira during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to build first in your Riven and Samira synergy build include Ravenous Hydra, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven used at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Samira than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Riven had an average winrate of 48.2% helping carry Samira with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Riven and Samira pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.2% win rate overall.
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