Warwick with Riven
How to Synergize Warwick and Riven
based on 3,506 Warwick with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Warwick Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Warwick and Riven
Tips for Playing as Warwick with Riven
Infinite Duress (R)'s distance scales with any Move Speed you gain, even from ally buffs and summoner spells.
Follow your Blood Hunt trails to low health enemy champions.
Jaws of the Beast (Q) will follow enemies who run, dash or teleport if you keep the button held down.
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.
Warwick Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Warwick in LoL
The Warwick 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, Warwick 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 Warwick perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Warwick tries to synergize with Riven, he sees a little drop in his complete damage output. This may signal that Riven does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Warwick is played 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 alongside Riven.
Moreover, when Warwick plays with Riven on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Riven does a poor job of protecting Warwick during teamfights.
Synergies between Warwick and Riven
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Is Warwick better when played alongside Riven?
There is no one best synergy for Warwick that will no matter what be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Riven is a not very good ally for Warwick. By playing on the same team as Warwick, she decreases their win rate by -1.2% to 48.1%. This demonstrates that there is a negative bond between Warwick and Riven that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Riven has a much greater difficulty compared to Warwick. That means you should be very careful when arranging Riven allies to play with, as they will need a much higher level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by grouping Warwick and Riven together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a lot of magical damage output. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Riven ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Warwick to synergize with Riven during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to get in your Warwick and Riven synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Experimental Hexplate, and Titanic Hydra. When Warwick bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Riven than with most other common item sets. In fact, Warwick had an average win rate of 48.1% when playing alongside Riven with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Warwick and Riven pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.1% win rate overall.
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