Riven with Kennen
How to Synergize Riven and Kennen
based on 565 Riven with Kennen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Riven Kennen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Riven with Kennen
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 Kennen Will Play
You can land an initial Mark of the Storm debuff on an opponent with Thundering Shuriken, and then add to it with Electrical Surge.
Lightning Rush can be used to initiate fights with its Energy return component, allowing him to use other abilities afterward.
You can stun your opponents by inflicting 3 Marks of the Storm upon them.
Riven Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Riven in LoL
The Riven Kennen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kennen, 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 Kennen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kennen helps Riven perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Riven plays on the same team as Kennen, she gets a marginal improvement in her full damage dealt. This may indicate that Kennen provides cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played alongside Kennen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Kennen.
Additionally, when Riven plays with Kennen on the same team, she typically takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Kennen does a poor job of covering Riven in team fights.
Synergies between Riven and Kennen
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Is Riven better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Riven that will 100% of the time be her ideal ally. Yet, Kennen is a pretty good companion for Riven. By playing on the same team as Riven, he increases their win rate by 2.3% to 52.4%. This demonstrates that there is a potentially meaningful synergy between Riven and Kennen that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Kennen has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means Riven players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Kennen allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by bringing Riven and Kennen together, you may not be giving your team a great deal of magic damage. Make sure to have other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Kennen teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Riven to pair well with Kennen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to have in your Riven and Kennen synergy build include Spear of Shojin, Death's Dance, and Eclipse. When Riven bought at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Kennen than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Riven had an average winrate of 52.4% when playing alongside Kennen with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.4% winrate overall.
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