Varus with Riven
How to Synergize Varus and Riven
based on 4,824 Varus with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Varus Riven Synergy Summary
Best Varus vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Varus and Riven
Tips for Playing as Varus with Riven
Try to take advantage of Piercing Arrow's very long range to snipe at enemy champions before a fight or as they're trying to flee.
An early point in Blighted Quiver helps harass enemy champions and get killing blows on minions.
During short range fights it's sometimes best to fire Piercing Arrow quickly, rather than charging it to full power.
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.
Varus Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Varus in LoL
The Varus 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, Varus 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 decrease shows that Riven helps Varus perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Varus is an ally to Riven, he observes a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Riven does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Varus is played alongside Riven on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Riven.
Moreover, when Varus plays with Riven on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Riven does a decent job of protecting Varus during teamfights.
Synergies between Varus and Riven
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Is Varus better when played alongside Riven?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Varus that will always be his best teammate. However, overall, Riven is a very typical companion for Varus. By playing on the same team as Varus, she increases their win rate by 0.8% to 49.2%. This signals that there is a weak bond between Varus and Riven that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Riven has a much greater difficulty compared to Varus. That means you must be cautious when lining up Riven teammates to play with, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to work well with you.
Working cooperatively, Varus players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by pairing Varus and Riven together, you may not be providing your team very much AP. Make sure to have other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Riven teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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
To learn all of the intricacies of Varus in order to work well with Riven during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to get in your Varus and Riven synergy build consist of Muramana, Edge of Night, and Opportunity. When Varus used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Riven than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Varus had an average win rate of 49.2% helping carry Riven with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, you should take the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.2% winrate overall.
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