Veigar with Riven
How to Synergize Veigar and Riven
based on 3,548 Veigar with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Veigar Riven Synergy Summary
Best Veigar vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Veigar and Riven
Tips for Playing as Veigar with Riven
Veigar is extremely Mana and Cooldown Reduction dependent. Try buying items with these stats in order to increase the effectiveness of your passive and Baleful Strike.
Veigar is very fragile. It is valuable to select at least one summoner spell that can be used defensively.
Use Event Horizon to increase your chances of landing Dark Matter.
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.
Veigar Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Veigar in LoL
The Veigar 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, Veigar sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Riven. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Riven helps Veigar perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Veigar is paired with Riven, he sees a little increase in his full damage dealt. This change could indicate that Riven supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Veigar is played together 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.
Additionally, when Veigar plays with Riven on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Riven does a decent job of protecting Veigar in teamfights.
Synergies between Veigar and Riven
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Is Veigar better when played alongside Riven?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Veigar that will no matter what be his top synergy. Yet, overall, Riven is a very typical companion for Veigar. By playing on the same team as Veigar, she raises their win rate by 0.2% to 49.5%. This signals that there is a weak bond between Veigar and Riven that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Riven has a greater difficulty than Veigar. That means Veigar players should be cautious when lining up Riven teammates to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Veigar and Riven together, you may not be giving your side enough tankyness. Plan to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
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, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Veigar in order to synergize with Riven during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to focus on in your Veigar and Riven synergy build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Stormsurge. When Veigar included at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Riven than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Veigar had an average winrate of 49.5% when playing alongside Riven with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Veigar and Riven pairings, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.5% win rate overall.
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