Riven with Syndra
How to Synergize Riven and Syndra
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Riven Syndra Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Syndra
Tips for Playing as Riven with Syndra
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 Syndra Will Play
To maximize your ultimate's damage use it when there are many spheres on the battlefield.
After you hit an enemy champion with Force of Will follow up with Dark Sphere, they'll be slowed and have a hard time avoiding it.
Get one of your spells to rank 5 as quickly as possible, they gain powerful bonus effects at max rank.
Riven Syndra Synergy Stats
How to Play with Syndra as Riven in LoL
The Riven Syndra synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Syndra, 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 Syndra. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Syndra helps Riven perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven is paired with Syndra, she sees a little increase in her total damage dealt. This could indicate that Syndra provides cover for her to dish out more damage or that her support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played alongside Syndra 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 alongside Syndra.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Syndra on the same team, she on average receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that Syndra does a poor job of covering Riven in team fights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Syndra?
There is no top companion for Riven that will always be her best teammate. However, overall, Syndra is a very typical companion for Riven. By being on the same side as Riven, she improves their win rate by 0.4% to 50.5%. This signals that there is a weak strategic relationship between Riven and Syndra that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Syndra has a lower difficulty than Riven. That means Riven players don't need to be careful when arranging Syndra teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by grouping Riven and Syndra together, you will not be providing your other allies a lot of protection for burst damage. Plan to pick other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your Syndra ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Riven to work well with Syndra during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Riven and Syndra synergy build include Spear of Shojin, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Riven combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Syndra than with most other common builds. In fact, Riven had an average winrate of 50.5% helping carry Syndra with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.5% winrate overall.
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