Riven with Yasuo
How to Synergize Riven and Yasuo
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Riven Yasuo Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Yasuo
Tips for Playing as Riven with Yasuo
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 Yasuo Will Play
Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
Riven Yasuo Synergy Stats
How to Play with Yasuo as Riven in LoL
The Riven Yasuo synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Yasuo, 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 Yasuo. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Yasuo helps Riven perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven tries to synergize with Yasuo, she gets a barely noticable drop in her complete damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Yasuo doesn't help protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played together with Yasuo on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Yasuo. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Yasuo.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Yasuo on the same team, she on average receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Yasuo does a decent job of covering Riven in team fights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Yasuo?
There is no one best ally for Riven that will 100% of the time be her ideal ally. However, Yasuo is a very typical teammate for Riven. By being on the same team as Riven, he decreases their win rate by -1.0% to 49.1%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak synergy between Riven and Yasuo that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Yasuo has a greater difficulty than Riven. That means you must be cautious when lining up Yasuo teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by bringing Riven and Yasuo together, you may not be giving your other teammates a lot of magical damage output. Plan to bring other champs on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Yasuo teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Riven to pair well with Yasuo during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to use in your Riven and Yasuo synergy build consist of Ravenous Hydra, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Yasuo than with most other common item sets. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 49.1% when playing alongside Yasuo with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, Riven players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.1% win rate overall.
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