Riven with Soraka
How to Synergize Riven and Soraka
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Riven Soraka Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Soraka
Tips for Playing as Riven with Soraka
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 Soraka Will Play
Equinox can be used as a powerful zoning tool to keep enemies at bay.
You can use Wish on your allies from across the map to save them from otherwise fatal events.
Soraka is a powerful ally in battle, using her strong healing to keep the party moving forward.
Riven Soraka Synergy Stats
How to Play with Soraka as Riven in LoL
The Riven Soraka synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Soraka, 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 Soraka. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Soraka helps Riven perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Riven tries to synergize with Soraka, she sees a small increase in her full damage dealt. This may indicate that Soraka helps provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played alongside Soraka on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Soraka. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Soraka.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Soraka on the same side, she on average takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Soraka does a poor job of covering Riven during teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Soraka?
There is no perfect companion for Riven that will no matter what be her #1 ally. However, Soraka is a very typical companion for Riven. By being on the same team as Riven, she increases their win rate by 0.2% to 50.3%. This demonstrates that there is only a small synergy between Riven and Soraka that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Soraka has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Soraka teammates to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Riven players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to support your allies. Together, these two should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Conversely, by bringing Riven and Soraka together, you may not be providing your other teammates a lot of magical damage output. Make sure to include other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Soraka ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Riven in order to pair well with Soraka during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Riven and Soraka synergy build include Black Cleaver, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven used at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when paired up with Soraka than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 50.3% when playing alongside Soraka with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating 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 sets players chose for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Soraka with Riven are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a particular rank, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.