Riven with Xin Zhao
How to Synergize Riven and Xin Zhao
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Xin Zhao
Tips for Playing as Riven with Xin Zhao
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 Xin Zhao Will Play
Try to position yourself so your ultimate's knockback is most effective.
Xin Zhao is a great initiator to combat. Lead the front to start a fight and use your ultimate to do the most damage possible.
Riven Xin Zhao Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xin Zhao as Riven in LoL
The Riven Xin Zhao synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xin Zhao, 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 Xin Zhao. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Xin Zhao helps Riven perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven tries to synergize with Xin Zhao, she sees a small decrease in her full damage dealt. This change may indicate that Xin Zhao doesn't help protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played alongside Xin Zhao on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Xin Zhao. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Xin Zhao.
Additionally, when Riven plays with Xin Zhao on the same side, she on average takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Xin Zhao does a decent job of covering Riven during team fights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Xin Zhao?
There is no top companion for Riven that will no matter what be her top ally. However, overall, Xin Zhao is a good companion for Riven. By playing on the same team as Riven, he raises their win rate by 1.0% to 51.1%. This shows that there is pretty good strategic relationship between Riven and Xin Zhao that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Xin Zhao has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means Riven players don't need to be very careful when finding Xin Zhao comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by grouping Riven and Xin Zhao together, you will not be giving your side enough magic damage. Make sure to include other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Xin Zhao teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Riven in order to synergize with Xin Zhao during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to prioritize in your Riven and Xin Zhao synergy build include Death's Dance, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven combined at least these three finished items in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Xin Zhao than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 51.1% helping carry Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing 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 runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.1% winrate overall.
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