Soraka with Riven
How to Synergize Soraka and Riven
based on 2,795 Soraka with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Soraka Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Soraka and Riven
Tips for Playing as Soraka with Riven
Equinox can be used as a powerful zoning tool to keep enemies at bay.
You can use Wish on your allies from across the map to save them from otherwise fatal events.
Soraka is a powerful ally in battle, using her strong healing to keep the party moving forward.
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.
Soraka Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Soraka in LoL
The Soraka 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, Soraka sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Riven. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Riven helps Soraka perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Soraka is an ally to Riven, she sees a little decrease in her full damage dealt. This may indicate that Riven does not support by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Soraka is played together with Riven on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Riven. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Riven.
Moreover, when Soraka plays with Riven on the same team, she often receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Riven does a decent job of covering Soraka in team fights.
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Is Soraka better when played alongside Riven?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Soraka that will always be her ideal teammate. However, overall, Riven is a very typical ally for Soraka. By locking into the same team as Soraka, she increases their win rate by 0.9% to 50.3%. This shows that there is only a small bond between Soraka and Riven that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Riven has a much greater difficulty compared to Soraka. That means you need to be very careful when finding Riven comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much higher level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting together, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide a lot of utility for your team. When paired, these champs should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Although, by pairing Soraka and Riven together, you will not be giving your team very much AP. Make sure to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Riven ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Soraka in order to pair well with Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to prioritize in your Soraka and Riven synergy build consist of Redemption, Moonstone Renewer, and Dawncore. When Soraka used at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Riven than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Soraka boasted an average win rate of 50.3% when playing alongside Riven with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Soraka and Riven pairings, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.3% winrate overall.
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