Riven with Skarner
How to Synergize Riven and Skarner
based on 314 Riven with Skarner pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Riven Skarner Synergy Summary
Best Riven vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Riven with Skarner
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 Skarner Will Play
Impale is extremely powerful when you use it to position an enemy so your allies can attack them.
Basic attacks reduce the cooldown of Crystal Slash. Use them as often as possible for maximum damage.
Capturing Crystal Spires before attempting neutral objectives or team fights around them improves Skarner's performance in said fights dramatically.
Riven Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Riven in LoL
The Riven Skarner synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Skarner, 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 Skarner. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Skarner helps Riven perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Riven plays on the same team as Skarner, she gets a marginal improvement in her total damage output. This difference may signal that Skarner helps provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played with Skarner on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Skarner.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Skarner on the same team, she often takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Skarner does a decent job of covering Riven in team fights.
Synergies between Riven and Skarner
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Is Riven better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Riven that will no matter what be her ideal ally. Yet, overall, Skarner is a very typical companion for Riven. By being on the same side as Riven, he increases their win rate by 0.2% to 50.3%. This shows that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Riven and Skarner that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Skarner has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means Riven players don't need to be cautious when arranging Skarner teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Working alongside, Riven players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by grouping Riven and Skarner together, you may not be giving your team enough AP. Plan to include other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Skarner ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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 truly master Riven in order to pair well with Skarner during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Riven and Skarner synergy build consist of Spear of Shojin, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Riven included at least these three great items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Skarner than with many other typical builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 50.3% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Skarner with this build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.3% win rate overall.
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