Syndra with Riven
How to Synergize Syndra and Riven
based on 2,855 Syndra with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Syndra Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Syndra and Riven
Tips for Playing as Syndra with Riven
To maximize your ultimate's damage use it when there are many spheres on the battlefield.
After you hit an enemy champion with Force of Will follow up with Dark Sphere, they'll be slowed and have a hard time avoiding it.
Get one of your spells to rank 5 as quickly as possible, they gain powerful bonus effects at max rank.
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.
Syndra Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Syndra in LoL
The Syndra 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, Syndra 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 drop shows that Riven helps Syndra perform worse in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Syndra is paired with Riven, she observes a small increase in her complete damage dealt. This may indicate that Riven supports by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Syndra is played alongside Riven on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Riven.
Additionally, when Syndra plays with Riven on the same team, she usually takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Riven does a decent job of covering Syndra in teamfights.
Synergies between Syndra and Riven
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Is Syndra better when played alongside Riven?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Syndra that will 100% of the time be her best teammate. Yet, overall, Riven is a decent ally for Syndra. By playing on the same side as Syndra, she improves their win rate by 1.8% to 50.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a good strategic relationship between Syndra and Riven that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Riven has a lower difficulty than Syndra. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Riven teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
When playing on the same side, Syndra players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by aligning Syndra and Riven together, you probably will not be providing your other allies a lot of engage potential. We recommend you include other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Riven ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Syndra to work well with Riven during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to include in your Syndra and Riven synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Void Staff, and Stormsurge. When Syndra combined at least these three finished items in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Riven than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Syndra had an average win rate of 50.5% helping carry Riven with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Syndra players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.5% winrate overall.
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