Riven with Bard
How to Synergize Riven and Bard
based on 3,810 Riven with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Riven Bard Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Bard
Tips for Playing as Riven with Bard
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.
Advice to Understand How Bard Will Play
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
Riven Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Riven in LoL
The Riven Bard synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Bard, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Riven sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Bard helps Riven perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Riven is an ally to Bard, she gets a little increase in her full damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Bard provides cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played alongside Bard on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Bard. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Bard.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Bard on the same team, she usually receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Bard does a poor job of covering Riven during teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Bard?
There is no top champion pairing for Riven that will no matter what be her best ally. Yet, Bard is a good teammate for Riven. By playing on the same team as Riven, he raises their win rate by 2.9% to 53.0%. This clearly indicates that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Riven and Bard that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Bard has a greater difficulty than Riven. That means you must be very careful when arranging Bard allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting together, Riven players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by pairing Riven and Bard together, you may not be providing your team enough magical damage output. We recommend you include other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Bard teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down 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 Riven to synergize with Bard during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to use in your Riven and Bard synergy build include Ravenous Hydra, Spear of Shojin, and Eclipse. When Riven used at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Bard than with many other common item sets. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 53.0% helping carry Bard with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Riven and Bard pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 53.0% win rate overall.
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