Riven with Taric
How to Synergize Riven and Taric
based on 1,187 Riven with Taric pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Riven Taric Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Taric
Tips for Playing as Riven with Taric
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 Taric Will Play
The cooldown reducing component of Bravado makes Cooldown Reduction items like Frozen Heart, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Spirit Visage exceptionally powerful on Taric.
Using Starlight's Touch at lower charges makes its healing less Mana efficient, but can greatly increase Taric's sustained damage via Bravado.
Rather than saving Cosmic Radiance for the last moment and risking someone dying during the delay, it can be more beneficial to cast it as soon as you know a teamfight is guaranteed to start.
Riven Taric Synergy Stats
How to Play with Taric as Riven in LoL
The Riven Taric synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Taric, 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 Taric. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Taric helps Riven perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven is paired with Taric, she observes a barely noticable drop in her complete damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Taric does not support by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played with Taric on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Taric.
Additionally, when Riven plays with Taric on the same team, she often takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Taric does a decent job of protecting Riven during teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Taric?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Riven that will 100% of the time be her top teammate. However, overall, Taric is a superb companion for Riven. By being on the same side as Riven, he increases their win rate by 4.3% to 54.4%. This signals that there is an important bond between Riven and Taric that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Taric has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means Riven players don't need to be very careful when lining up Taric teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by bringing Riven and Taric together, you probably will not be granting your team much AP. We recommend you have other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your Taric ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Riven to synergize with Taric during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to build first in your Riven and Taric synergy build include Death's Dance, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven used at least these three great items in her build, she did much better when fighting alongside Taric than with many other typical builds. In fact, Riven had an average win rate of 54.4% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Taric with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 54.4% win rate overall.
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