Volibear with Riven
How to Synergize Volibear and Riven
based on 839 Volibear with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Volibear Riven Synergy Summary
Best Volibear vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Volibear and Riven
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.
Volibear Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Volibear in LoL
The Volibear 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, Volibear 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 negative change shows that Riven helps Volibear perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Volibear is paired with Riven, he gets a moderate decrease in his full damage output. This difference may signal that Riven does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Volibear is played together with Riven on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Riven.
Additionally, when Volibear plays with Riven on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Riven does a poor job of covering Volibear in teamfights.
Synergies between Volibear and Riven
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Is Volibear better when played alongside Riven?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Volibear that will no matter what be his ideal ally. However, Riven is a below average teammate for Volibear. By locking into the same side as Volibear, she decreases their win rate by -1.5% to 46.5%. This shows that there is a bad strategic relationship between Volibear and Riven that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Riven has a much greater difficulty compared to Volibear. That means you need to be careful when enlisting Riven allies to play with, as they will need a much greater level of skill to do well with you.
When playing together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by bringing Volibear and Riven together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates a great deal of magic damage. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Riven ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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
To learn all of the intricacies of Volibear to pair well with Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Volibear and Riven synergy build include Spirit Visage, Nashor's Tooth, and Riftmaker. When Volibear included at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Riven than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Volibear had an average win rate of 46.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Riven with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Volibear and Riven pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.5% winrate overall.
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