Talon with Riven
How to Synergize Talon and Riven
based on 2,286 Talon with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Talon Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Talon and Riven
Tips for Playing as Talon with Riven
Shadow Assault is a powerful escape tool, but can also be offensively used to assault a group.
You can use Assassin's Path to get behind the enemy and set up for Noxian Diplomacy's melee attack.
Remember to pick your target before the fight. Focusing all of Talon's abilities on one target can be very rewarding, but splitting them up between many may leave you helpless.
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.
Talon Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Talon in LoL
The Talon Riven synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Riven, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Talon sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Riven. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Riven helps Talon perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Talon is an ally to Riven, he observes a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This could indicate that Riven does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Talon is played with Riven on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Riven. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Riven.
Moreover, when Talon plays with Riven on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Riven does a decent job of protecting Talon during team fights.
Synergies between Talon and Riven
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Is Talon better when played alongside Riven?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Talon that will always be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Riven is a below average companion for Talon. By locking into the same side as Talon, she lowers their win rate by -1.8% to 47.2%. This shows that there is a harmful bond between Talon and Riven that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Riven has a greater difficulty than Talon. That means you should be very careful when lining up Riven teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing together, Talon players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by pairing Talon and Riven together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates a lot of magic damage. Plan to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Riven ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Talon to synergize with Riven during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to prioritize in your Talon and Riven synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Axiom Arc, and Opportunity. When Talon included at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Riven than with many other typical builds. In fact, Talon had an average win rate of 47.2% when playing alongside Riven with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Talon players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.2% win rate overall.
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