Vel'Koz with Riven
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Riven
based on 2,416 Vel'Koz with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Vel'Koz Riven Synergy Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Riven
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Riven
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
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.
Vel'Koz Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz 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, Vel'Koz sees a very large drop 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 Vel'Koz perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vel'Koz is an ally to Riven, he gets a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This may signal that Riven supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played together with Riven on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Riven. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Riven.
Moreover, when Vel'Koz plays with Riven on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Riven does a decent job of protecting Vel'Koz during teamfights.
Synergies between Vel'Koz and Riven
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Riven?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Vel'Koz that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, overall, Riven is a very typical ally for Vel'Koz. By playing on the same side as Vel'Koz, she improves their win rate by 0.3% to 50.6%. This proves that there is a weak strategic relationship between Vel'Koz and Riven that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Riven has a lower difficulty than Vel'Koz. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Riven comrades to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
When playing on the same side, Vel'Koz players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Vel'Koz and Riven together, you will not be providing your team a lot of engage. Plan to pick other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Riven ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vel'Koz in order to synergize with Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to build first in your Vel'Koz and Riven synergy build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Horizon Focus, and Stormsurge. When Vel'Koz used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Riven than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average win rate of 50.6% helping carry Riven with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Vel'Koz and Riven pairings, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.6% winrate overall.
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