Samira with Riven
How to Synergize Samira and Riven
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Samira Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Samira and Riven
Advice to Understand How Riven Will Play
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.
Samira Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Samira in LoL
The Samira Riven synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Riven, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Samira sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Riven. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Riven helps Samira perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Samira tries to synergize with Riven, she sees a barely noticable drop in her complete damage dealt. This could signal that Riven does not provide cover for her to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Samira is played with Riven on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Riven. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Riven.
Additionally, when Samira plays with Riven on the same team, she on average receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Riven does a decent job of protecting Samira in team fights.
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Is Samira better when played alongside Riven?
There is no top ally for Samira that will no matter what be her best synergy. However, overall, Riven is a very typical companion for Samira. By being on the same side as Samira, she lowers their win rate by -0.5% to 48.2%. This shows that there is a weak synergy between Samira and Riven that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Riven has a greater difficulty than Samira. That means you need to be careful when enlisting Riven teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by pairing Samira and Riven together, you will not be granting your team a great deal of AP. Plan to include other champions on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Riven ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing 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 Samira to work well with Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to include in your Samira and Riven synergy build include Guardian Angel, Infinity Edge, and Immortal Shieldbow. When Samira bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Riven than with most other typical builds. In fact, Samira had an average winrate of 48.2% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Riven with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, Samira players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Samira and Riven pairings, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.2% win rate overall.
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