Vladimir with Riven
How to Synergize Vladimir and Riven
based on 3,360 Vladimir with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Vladimir Riven Synergy Summary
Best Vladimir vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Vladimir and Riven
Tips for Playing as Vladimir with Riven
Transfusion instantly deals damage to the enemy before healing Vladimir, making it one of the best last hitting tools in the game.
Cast Hemoplague where it will afflict the most units.
Sanguine Pool pops incoming missiles, so it can be used to dodge disables.
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.
Vladimir Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Vladimir in LoL
The Vladimir 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, Vladimir 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 worsening shows that Riven helps Vladimir perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vladimir is paired with Riven, he sees a small increase in his total damage dealt. This difference could signal that Riven helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Vladimir is played alongside 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 Vladimir plays with Riven on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Riven does a poor job of covering Vladimir in team fights.
Synergies between Vladimir and Riven
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Is Vladimir better when played alongside Riven?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Vladimir that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. However, Riven is a decent ally for Vladimir. By being on the same side as Vladimir, she improves their win rate by 2.4% to 52.4%. This proves that there is pretty good strategic relationship between Vladimir and Riven that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Riven has a greater difficulty than Vladimir. That means you need to be careful when enlisting Riven comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to do well with you.
When playing alongside, Vladimir players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. When paired, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by bringing Vladimir and Riven together, you may not be providing your side a lot of crowd control. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Riven ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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
To learn all of the intricacies of Vladimir to synergize with Riven during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Vladimir and Riven synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Cosmic Drive, and Stormsurge. When Vladimir used at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Riven than with most other common item sets. In fact, Vladimir had an average win rate of 52.4% helping carry Riven with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, Vladimir players should equip the Summon Aery, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Scorch, Last Stand, and Triumph runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.4% winrate overall.
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