Viktor with Riven
How to Synergize Viktor and Riven
based on 1,781 Viktor with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Viktor Riven Synergy Summary
Best Viktor vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Viktor and Riven
Tips for Playing as Viktor with Riven
Make sure you choose the right augment at the right time.
Death Ray is a powerful poke and a strong area of denial tool. Use it in combination with Gravity Field to control your enemy's position.
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.
Viktor Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Viktor in LoL
The Viktor 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, Viktor sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Riven. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Riven helps Viktor perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Viktor is an ally to Riven, he observes a little increase in his full damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Riven helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Viktor is played together with Riven on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Riven.
Moreover, when Viktor plays with Riven on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Riven does a decent job of protecting Viktor in team fights.
Synergies between Viktor and Riven
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Is Viktor better when played alongside Riven?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Viktor that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. However, Riven is a decent ally for Viktor. By locking into the same team as Viktor, she improves their win rate by 1.6% to 51.8%. This clearly indicates that there is pretty good bond between Viktor and Riven that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Riven has a lower difficulty than Viktor. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Riven allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Viktor and Riven together, you may not be providing your team very much support. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Riven ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 Viktor to synergize with Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to include in your Viktor and Riven synergy build include Lich Bane, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Viktor incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Riven than with many other common item sets. In fact, Viktor boasted an average win rate of 51.8% helping carry Riven with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, Viktor players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.8% win rate overall.
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