Riven with Viktor
How to Synergize Riven and Viktor
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Riven Viktor Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Viktor
Tips for Playing as Riven with Viktor
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 Viktor Will Play
Make sure you choose the right augment at the right time.
Death Ray is a powerful poke and a strong area of denial tool. Use it in combination with Gravity Field to control your enemy's position.
Riven Viktor Synergy Stats
How to Play with Viktor as Riven in LoL
The Riven Viktor synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Viktor, 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 Viktor. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Viktor helps Riven perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven is an ally to Viktor, she sees a little drop in her total damage output. This difference could indicate that Viktor does not help protection for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played together with Viktor on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Viktor. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Viktor.
Additionally, when Riven plays with Viktor on the same team, she typically takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Viktor does a decent job of protecting Riven during team fights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Viktor?
There is no one best champion pairing for Riven that will always be her top ally. However, Viktor is a pretty good teammate for Riven. By locking into the same team as Riven, he raises their win rate by 1.7% to 51.8%. This clearly indicates that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Riven and Viktor that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Viktor has a greater difficulty than Riven. That means Riven players should be cautious when lining up Viktor allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Riven and Viktor together, you may not be giving your team a lot of crowd control. Make sure to include other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Viktor ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold 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 truly master Riven to work well with Viktor during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to use in your Riven and Viktor synergy build include Maw of Malmortius, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Viktor than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Riven had an average winrate of 51.8% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Viktor with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Riven players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.8% winrate overall.
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