Riven with Sylas
How to Synergize Riven and Sylas
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Riven Sylas Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Sylas
Tips for Playing as Riven with Sylas
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 Sylas Will Play
Clever use of enemy ultimates can open up new possibilities to approach teamfights.
Wait for you or your enemy to reach low health before using Kingslayer for maximum effect.
Space out your ability usage to get maximum effect from Petricite Burst.
Riven Sylas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sylas as Riven in LoL
The Riven Sylas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sylas, 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 Sylas. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Sylas helps Riven perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven plays on the same team as Sylas, she observes a little decrease in her total damage dealt. This may signal that Sylas does not support by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played together with Sylas on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Sylas.
Additionally, when Riven plays with Sylas on the same team, she often takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Sylas does a decent job of covering Riven during teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Sylas?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Riven that will 100% of the time be her best synergy. However, Sylas is a relatively poor companion for Riven. By playing on the same team as Riven, he decreases their win rate by -1.8% to 48.3%. This proves that there is a harmful synergy between Riven and Sylas that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Sylas has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means Riven players don't need to be cautious when finding Sylas teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Riven players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by aligning Riven and Sylas together, you will not be giving your other allies very much crowd control. We recommend you include other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Sylas teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Riven to work well with Sylas during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to prioritize in your Riven and Sylas synergy build consist of Maw of Malmortius, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Riven included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Sylas than with most other common item sets. In fact, Riven had an average win rate of 48.3% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Sylas with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating 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. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.3% winrate overall.
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