Galio with Riven
How to Synergize Galio and Riven
based on 3,008 Galio with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Galio Riven Synergy Summary
Best Galio vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Galio and Riven
Tips for Playing as Galio with Riven
You can release Shield of Durand even while crowd controlled.
You can use the minimap ally icons to cast Hero's Entrance.
You can use the step back from Justice Punch to dodge enemy spells.
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.
Galio Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Galio in LoL
The Galio 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, Galio 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 Galio perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Galio is an ally to Riven, he gets a little increase in his complete damage output. This difference could signal that Riven helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Galio is played together with Riven on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Riven.
Additionally, when Galio plays with Riven on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Riven does a decent job of covering Galio in teamfights.
Synergies between Galio and Riven
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Is Galio better when played alongside Riven?
There is no one best champion pairing for Galio that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. Yet, Riven is a very typical teammate for Galio. By being on the same side as Galio, she drops their win rate by -1.0% to 49.6%. This shows that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Galio and Riven that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Riven has a greater difficulty than Galio. That means you need to be very careful when lining up Riven allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to work well with you.
When playing on the same side, Galio players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. When paired, these two will be a great protective duo.
Although, by bringing Galio and Riven together, you probably will not be giving your team a great deal of magic damage. Plan to have other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Riven ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Galio to synergize with Riven during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to build first in your Galio and Riven synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Galio included at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Riven than with most other typical builds. In fact, Galio had an average winrate of 49.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Riven with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Galio players should use the Aftershock, Shield Bash, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Resolve and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.6% win rate overall.
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