Riven with Tristana
How to Synergize Riven and Tristana
based on 3,404 Riven with Tristana pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Riven Tristana Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Tristana
Tips for Playing as Riven with Tristana
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 Tristana Will Play
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
Riven Tristana Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tristana as Riven in LoL
The Riven Tristana synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Tristana, 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 Tristana. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Tristana helps Riven perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Riven tries to synergize with Tristana, she observes a little drop in her complete damage output. This could demonstrate that Tristana does not support by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that her support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played together with Tristana on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Tristana.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Tristana on the same side, she usually receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Tristana does a decent job of protecting Riven during teamfights.
Synergies between Riven and Tristana
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Is Riven better when played alongside Tristana?
There is no one best ally for Riven that will 100% of the time be her top ally. However, overall, Tristana is a relatively poor ally for Riven. By locking into the same team as Riven, she decreases their win rate by -2.0% to 48.1%. This proves that there is a bad strategic relationship between Riven and Tristana that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Tristana has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means Riven players don't need to be cautious when arranging Tristana teammates to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, Riven players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Riven and Tristana together, you probably will not be granting your side enough crowd control. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Tristana ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, 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 pair well with Tristana during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Riven and Tristana synergy build include Maw of Malmortius, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven included at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Tristana than with many other common builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 48.1% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Tristana with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, Riven players should equip 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 we have analyed for Riven and Tristana pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.1% win rate overall.
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