Zoe with Riven
How to Synergize Zoe and Riven
based on 1,466 Zoe with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Zoe Riven Synergy Summary
Best Zoe vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Zoe and Riven
Tips for Playing as Zoe with Riven
Sleepy Trouble Bubble travels further over walls. Find a hiding spot to set up for a long distance kill.
Break Sleep with your biggest damage source, since enemies who are asleep take double damage.
Paddle Star deals more damage the further it has flown. Casting it behind yourself before redirecting can deal tons of damage.
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.
Zoe Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Zoe in LoL
The Zoe 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, Zoe sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Riven. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Riven helps Zoe perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zoe is paired with Riven, she sees a small decrease in her total damage dealt. This change could indicate that Riven does not support by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Zoe is played alongside Riven on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Riven. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Riven.
Additionally, when Zoe plays with Riven on the same team, she often receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Riven does a decent job of protecting Zoe in teamfights.
Synergies between Zoe and Riven
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Is Zoe better when played alongside Riven?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Zoe that will 100% of the time be her top teammate. Yet, overall, Riven is a very typical ally for Zoe. By playing on the same side as Zoe, she increases their win rate by 0.6% to 47.6%. This proves that there is a weak bond between Zoe and Riven that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Riven has a greater difficulty than Zoe. That means you must be careful when enlisting Riven teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, Zoe players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by pairing Zoe and Riven together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates much crowd control. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Riven ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Zoe to pair well with Riven during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to prioritize in your Zoe and Riven synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Zoe included at least these three great items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Riven than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zoe boasted an average win rate of 47.6% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Riven with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, Zoe players should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.6% winrate overall.
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