Riven with Volibear
How to Synergize Riven and Volibear
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Riven Volibear Synergy Summary
Best Riven vs Volibear Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Volibear
Tips for Playing as Riven with Volibear
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.
Riven Volibear Synergy Stats
How to Play with Volibear as Riven in LoL
The Riven Volibear synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Volibear, 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 Volibear. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Volibear helps Riven perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven is paired with Volibear, she observes a little decrease in her full damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Volibear does not help cover for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played with Volibear on the same side, 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 alongside Volibear.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Volibear on the same team, she often takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Volibear does a decent job of covering Riven during teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Volibear?
There is no one best champion pairing for Riven that will no matter what be her best synergy. However, overall, Volibear is a very bad ally for Riven. By locking into the same side as Riven, he decreases their win rate by -3.6% to 46.5%. This proves that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Riven and Volibear that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Volibear has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Volibear comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting alongside, Riven players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Riven and Volibear together, you may not be giving your side a great deal of magical damage output. Make sure to have other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Volibear teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Riven in order to pair well with Volibear during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to build first in your Riven and Volibear synergy build include Spear of Shojin, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when paired up with Volibear than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 46.5% when playing alongside Volibear with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Riven players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Volibear with Riven are given for all skill levels, merged. If you want to filter the stats and builds to a specific rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.