Riven with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Riven and Vel'Koz
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Riven Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Riven with Vel'Koz
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 Vel'Koz Will Play
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
Riven Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Riven in LoL
The Riven Vel'Koz synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vel'Koz, 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 Vel'Koz. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Vel'Koz helps Riven perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven is paired with Vel'Koz, she sees a little increase in her total damage dealt. This could indicate that Vel'Koz helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played alongside Vel'Koz on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Vel'Koz.
Additionally, when Riven plays with Vel'Koz on the same side, she often takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Vel'Koz does a poor job of covering Riven during teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Riven that will always be her ideal synergy. However, overall, Vel'Koz is a very typical teammate for Riven. By being on the same team as Riven, he improves their win rate by 0.5% to 50.6%. This proves that there is only a small bond between Riven and Vel'Koz that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Vel'Koz has a lower difficulty than Riven. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Vel'Koz allies to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by bringing Riven and Vel'Koz together, you may not be providing your side much tankyness. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Vel'Koz ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, 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 in order to work well with Vel'Koz during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to use in your Riven and Vel'Koz synergy build include Ravenous Hydra, Spear of Shojin, and Eclipse. When Riven included at least these three finished items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting alongside Vel'Koz than with many other common item sets. In fact, Riven had an average win rate of 50.6% helping carry Vel'Koz with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability 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. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.6% win rate overall.
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