Zed with Riven
How to Synergize Zed and Riven
based on 3,450 Zed with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Zed Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Riven
Tips for Playing as Zed with Riven
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Zed in LoL
The Zed 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, Zed sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Riven. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Riven helps Zed perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zed is paired with Riven, he sees a little decrease in his complete damage output. This could demonstrate that Riven doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played with Riven on the same team, 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 Zed plays with Riven on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Riven does a decent job of covering Zed in team fights.
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Is Zed better when played alongside Riven?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Zed that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. However, Riven is a very typical companion for Zed. By being on the same team as Zed, she improves their win rate by 0.4% to 48.8%. This shows that there is only a small synergy between Zed and Riven that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Riven has a greater difficulty than Zed. That means Zed players should be careful when lining up Riven teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, Zed players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by bringing Zed and Riven together, you probably will not be granting your team a lot of AP. Plan to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Riven ally, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zed to synergize with Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Zed and Riven synergy build consist of Axiom Arc, Profane Hydra, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Riven than with most other common builds. In fact, Zed had an average win rate of 48.8% helping carry Riven with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, Zed players should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.8% win rate overall.
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