Kayle with Riven
How to Synergize Kayle and Riven
based on 785 Kayle with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kayle Riven Synergy Summary
Best Kayle vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kayle and Riven
Tips for Playing as Kayle with Riven
Kayle benefits greatly from Attack Damage and Ability Power, making hybrid items like Nashor's Tooth and Hextech Gunblade very effective on her.
Using Divine Judgment on a high-DPS ally can turn the tides of battle by giving your ally free reign to attack.
Kayle's attacks become incredibly powerful once she gains attack range from Divine Ascent. Play safe until then.
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.
Kayle Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Kayle in LoL
The Kayle 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, Kayle 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 decrease shows that Riven helps Kayle perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kayle is an ally to Riven, she sees a moderate decrease in her complete damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Riven doesn't help protection for her to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Kayle is played together with Riven on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Riven. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Riven.
Moreover, when Kayle plays with Riven on the same side, 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 protecting Kayle in teamfights.
Synergies between Kayle and Riven
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Is Kayle better when played alongside Riven?
There is no perfect synergy for Kayle that will 100% of the time be her ideal teammate. However, overall, Riven is a very typical teammate for Kayle. By locking into the same side as Kayle, she drops their win rate by -0.2% to 51.1%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between Kayle and Riven that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Riven has a greater difficulty than Kayle. That means you should be very careful when lining up Riven allies to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by bringing Kayle and Riven together, you may not be granting your team very much support. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Riven teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Kayle in order to work well with Riven during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to use in your Kayle and Riven synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Kayle used at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when fighting alongside Riven than with most other typical builds. In fact, Kayle had an average win rate of 51.1% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Riven with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Kayle and Riven pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.1% win rate overall.
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