Riven with Zoe
How to Synergize Riven and Zoe
based on 1,466 Riven with Zoe pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Riven Zoe Synergy Summary
Best Riven vs Zoe Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Zoe
Tips for Playing as Riven with Zoe
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 Zoe Will Play
Sleepy Trouble Bubble travels further over walls. Find a hiding spot to set up for a long distance kill.
Break Sleep with your biggest damage source, since enemies who are asleep take double damage.
Paddle Star deals more damage the further it has flown. Casting it behind yourself before redirecting can deal tons of damage.
Riven Zoe Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zoe as Riven in LoL
The Riven Zoe synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zoe, 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 Zoe. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Zoe helps Riven perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Riven is paired with Zoe, she observes a small increase in her total damage dealt. This may signal that Zoe supports by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played alongside Zoe on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Zoe.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Zoe on the same team, she often receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Zoe does a decent job of covering Riven in teamfights.
Synergies between Riven and Zoe
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Is Riven better when played alongside Zoe?
There is no top companion for Riven that will no matter what be her top teammate. Yet, overall, Zoe is a below average companion for Riven. By locking into the same team as Riven, she lowers their win rate by -2.5% to 47.6%. This proves that there is a bad synergy between Riven and Zoe that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Zoe has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means Riven players don't need to be very careful when arranging Zoe teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by grouping Riven and Zoe together, you may not be giving your side very much support. Make sure to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Zoe ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should 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 Zoe during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to get in your Riven and Zoe synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Riven included at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Zoe than with many other common builds. In fact, Riven had an average winrate of 47.6% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Zoe with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, Riven players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Riven and Zoe pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.6% win rate overall.
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