Xayah with Riven
How to Synergize Xayah and Riven
based on 1,836 Xayah with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Xayah Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Xayah and Riven
Tips for Playing as Xayah with Riven
Xayah's attacks and abilities leave Feathers on the ground that she can later recall for massive area damage and control.
Xayah can use Featherstorm to dodge almost any ability while also creating a ton of Feathers. Try to utilize the offensive and defensive aspects of this ability.
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.
Xayah Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Xayah in LoL
The Xayah Riven synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Riven, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Xayah sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Riven. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Riven helps Xayah perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Xayah plays on the same team as Riven, she gets a little drop in her complete damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Riven doesn't help protection for her to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Xayah is played alongside Riven on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Riven.
Moreover, when Xayah plays with Riven on the same team, she typically takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Riven does a decent job of covering Xayah during teamfights.
Synergies between Xayah and Riven
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Is Xayah better when played alongside Riven?
There is no top synergy for Xayah that will always be her ideal synergy. Yet, Riven is a pretty good companion for Xayah. By playing on the same side as Xayah, she increases their win rate by 1.9% to 49.6%. This demonstrates that there is a somewhat important strategic relationship between Xayah and Riven that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Riven has a greater difficulty than Xayah. That means Xayah players should be cautious when arranging Riven teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working cooperatively, Xayah players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by bringing Xayah and Riven together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates very much magic damage. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that offsets this gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Riven ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down 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 Xayah to pair well with Riven during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to focus on in your Xayah and Riven synergy build include Phantom Dancer, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Xayah used at least these three finished items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Riven than with most other common item sets. In fact, Xayah had an average winrate of 49.6% when playing alongside Riven with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.6% winrate overall.
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