Riven with Heimerdinger
How to Synergize Riven and Heimerdinger
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Riven Heimerdinger Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Heimerdinger
Tips for Playing as Riven with Heimerdinger
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 Heimerdinger Will Play
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
Riven Heimerdinger Synergy Stats
How to Play with Heimerdinger as Riven in LoL
The Riven Heimerdinger synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Heimerdinger, 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 Heimerdinger. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Heimerdinger helps Riven perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven tries to synergize with Heimerdinger, she gets a little increase in her full damage output. This change may indicate that Heimerdinger provides cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played with Heimerdinger on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Heimerdinger.
Additionally, when Riven plays with Heimerdinger on the same team, she typically receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Heimerdinger does a poor job of covering Riven in team fights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Heimerdinger?
There is no perfect companion for Riven that will always be her ideal teammate. Yet, Heimerdinger is a not very good teammate for Riven. By playing on the same side as Riven, he decreases their win rate by -1.2% to 48.9%. This demonstrates that there is a bad bond between Riven and Heimerdinger that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Heimerdinger has a lower difficulty than Riven. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Heimerdinger teammates to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. When paired, these champions might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by grouping Riven and Heimerdinger together, you will not be granting your team enough AP. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Heimerdinger ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Riven to pair well with Heimerdinger during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to use in your Riven and Heimerdinger synergy build include Black Cleaver, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven included at least these three great items in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Heimerdinger than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 48.9% helping carry Heimerdinger with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.9% win rate overall.
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