Riven with Vayne
How to Synergize Riven and Vayne
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Riven Vayne Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Vayne
Tips for Playing as Riven with Vayne
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 Vayne Will Play
Don't go in first to a large teamfight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Tumble has many uses, but it cannot pass over walls.
Condemn can be used to both pin targets to walls to ensure a kill, or to escape a pursuer.
Riven Vayne Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vayne as Riven in LoL
The Riven Vayne synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vayne, 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 Vayne. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Vayne helps Riven perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven is an ally to Vayne, she observes a barely noticable drop in her full damage dealt. This difference may signal that Vayne does not support by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played with Vayne on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Vayne. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Vayne.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Vayne on the same side, she usually receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Vayne does a decent job of protecting Riven in teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Vayne?
There is no perfect ally for Riven that will always be her best teammate. Yet, overall, Vayne is a very typical ally for Riven. By locking into the same side as Riven, she raises their win rate by 0.8% to 50.9%. This signals that there is only a small synergy between Riven and Vayne that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Vayne has a lower difficulty than Riven. That means Riven players don't need to be careful when finding Vayne allies to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to play well with you.
Playing on the same side, Riven players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by aligning Riven and Vayne together, you will not be giving your team much AP. We recommend you have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Vayne ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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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 work well with Vayne during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to focus on in your Riven and Vayne synergy build include Maw of Malmortius, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Riven used at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Vayne than with many other common builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 50.9% helping carry Vayne with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, Riven players 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 we have analyed for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.9% winrate overall.
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