Riven with Warwick
How to Synergize Riven and Warwick
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Riven Warwick Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Warwick
Tips for Playing as Riven with Warwick
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 Warwick Will Play
Infinite Duress (R)'s distance scales with any Move Speed you gain, even from ally buffs and summoner spells.
Follow your Blood Hunt trails to low health enemy champions.
Jaws of the Beast (Q) will follow enemies who run, dash or teleport if you keep the button held down.
Riven Warwick Synergy Stats
How to Play with Warwick as Riven in LoL
The Riven Warwick synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Warwick, 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 Warwick. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Warwick helps Riven perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Riven tries to synergize with Warwick, she observes a marginal improvement in her full damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Warwick provides cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played with Warwick on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Warwick. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Warwick.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Warwick on the same team, she usually receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Warwick does a decent job of covering Riven during teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Warwick?
There is no ideal synergy for Riven that will no matter what be her #1 ally. Yet, overall, Warwick is a relatively poor teammate for Riven. By playing on the same side as Riven, he lowers their win rate by -2.0% to 48.1%. This proves that there is a negative bond between Riven and Warwick that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Warwick has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Warwick allies 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.
Working together, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Riven and Warwick together, you probably will not be providing your other allies very much magic damage. We recommend you include other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Warwick ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Riven in order to work well with Warwick during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Riven and Warwick synergy build include Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Riven included at least these three great items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Warwick than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 48.1% when playing alongside Warwick with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.1% winrate overall.
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