Riven with Maokai
How to Synergize Riven and Maokai
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Riven Maokai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Riven with Maokai
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 Maokai Will Play
Maokai's passive makes him extremely durable against focus fire from spells - so long as he can still basic attack something.
Try looking for flanks or other situations where Nature's Grasp is unavoidable or takes enemies by surprise.
Saplings can be tossed into brush for empowered effect - but don't stack well.
Riven Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Riven in LoL
The Riven Maokai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Maokai, 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 large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Maokai. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Maokai helps Riven perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Riven plays on the same team as Maokai, she gets a marginal improvement in her total damage output. This difference may signal that Maokai supports by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played with Maokai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Maokai.
Additionally, when Riven plays with Maokai on the same team, she often receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Maokai does a decent job of protecting Riven in teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no one best synergy for Riven that will no matter what be her ideal synergy. However, Maokai is a good companion for Riven. By locking into the same team as Riven, he raises their win rate by 2.7% to 52.8%. This proves that there is a potentially meaningful strategic relationship between Riven and Maokai that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means Riven players don't need to be very careful when lining up Maokai teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by grouping Riven and Maokai together, you will not be giving your side a great deal of magical damage output. Plan to have other champs on your team that fills this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Maokai ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Riven to pair well with Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to get in your Riven and Maokai synergy build include Maw of Malmortius, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Riven used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Maokai than with most other common builds. In fact, Riven had an average win rate of 52.8% helping carry Maokai with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Riven and Maokai pairings, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.8% win rate overall.
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