Tristana with Riven
How to Synergize Tristana and Riven
based on 3,404 Tristana with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Tristana Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Tristana and Riven
Tips for Playing as Tristana with Riven
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
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.
Tristana Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Tristana in LoL
The Tristana 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, Tristana sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Riven. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Riven helps Tristana perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Tristana is paired with Riven, she gets a little increase in her total damage dealt. This could signal that Riven helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that her support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Tristana is played alongside Riven on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Riven.
Moreover, when Tristana plays with Riven on the same side, she typically receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Riven does a decent job of covering Tristana in team fights.
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Is Tristana better when played alongside Riven?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Tristana that will 100% of the time be her top teammate. Yet, Riven is a very typical teammate for Tristana. By being on the same team as Tristana, she lowers their win rate by -0.8% to 48.1%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong synergy between Tristana and Riven that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Riven has a much greater difficulty compared to Tristana. That means Tristana players need to be very careful when arranging Riven allies to play with, as they will need a much greater level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by grouping Tristana and Riven together, you will not be providing your other allies a lot of support. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Riven ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down 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 Tristana in order to work well with Riven during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Tristana and Riven synergy build include Maw of Malmortius, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Tristana included at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Riven than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Tristana boasted an average winrate of 48.1% helping carry Riven with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Riven with Tristana are given for all skill levels combined. To narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct player tier, you can use the selection menu above.