Riven with Zed
How to Synergize Riven and Zed
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Riven Zed Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Zed
Tips for Playing as Riven with Zed
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 Zed Will Play
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
Riven Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Riven in LoL
The Riven Zed synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zed, 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 Zed. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Zed helps Riven perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Riven tries to synergize with Zed, she gets a marginal improvement in her full damage dealt. This change may signal that Zed supports by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played together with Zed on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Zed. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Zed.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Zed on the same team, she typically receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Zed does a poor job of covering Riven in teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Zed?
There is no perfect companion for Riven that will 100% of the time be her #1 synergy. However, Zed is a not very good teammate for Riven. By locking into the same team as Riven, he drops their win rate by -1.3% to 48.8%. This shows that there is a negative strategic relationship between Riven and Zed that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Zed has a lower difficulty than Riven. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Zed comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by aligning Riven and Zed together, you may not be providing your other allies enough AP. Plan to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Zed ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing 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 Zed during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Riven and Zed synergy build consist of Maw of Malmortius, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven used at least these three finished items in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Zed than with most other common builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 48.8% helping carry Zed with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, Riven players 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 players chose for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.8% win rate overall.
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