Riven with Vladimir
How to Synergize Riven and Vladimir
based on 3,360 Riven with Vladimir pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Riven Vladimir Synergy Summary
Best Riven vs Vladimir Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Vladimir
Tips for Playing as Riven with Vladimir
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 Vladimir Will Play
Transfusion instantly deals damage to the enemy before healing Vladimir, making it one of the best last hitting tools in the game.
Cast Hemoplague where it will afflict the most units.
Sanguine Pool pops incoming missiles, so it can be used to dodge disables.
Riven Vladimir Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vladimir as Riven in LoL
The Riven Vladimir synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vladimir, 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 Vladimir. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Vladimir helps Riven perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Riven tries to synergize with Vladimir, she sees a little decrease in her total damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Vladimir doesn't help protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played alongside Vladimir 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 Vladimir.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Vladimir on the same team, she typically takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Vladimir does a decent job of covering Riven during teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Vladimir?
There is no one best companion for Riven that will no matter what be her #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Vladimir is a decent teammate for Riven. By locking into the same side as Riven, he increases their win rate by 2.3% to 52.4%. This shows that there is a somewhat important synergy between Riven and Vladimir that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Vladimir has a lower difficulty than Riven. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Vladimir teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Riven players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by bringing Riven and Vladimir together, you will not be giving your other teammates a lot of utility. Plan to pick other champs on your team that fills this gap in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Vladimir ally, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should 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 work well with Vladimir during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Riven and Vladimir synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Death's Dance. When Riven combined at least these three finished items in her build, she did a lot better when paired up with Vladimir than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Riven had an average winrate of 52.4% helping carry Vladimir with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood 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 runes players picked for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.4% win rate overall.
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