Riven with Zac
How to Synergize Riven and Zac
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Riven Zac Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Zac
Tips for Playing as Riven with Zac
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 Zac Will Play
Picking up goo chunks is very important to staying alive.
When Cell Division is ready, try to die in a position that makes it difficult for the enemy team to kill your bloblets.
Charging Elastic Slingshot from the fog of war will give opponents less time to react.
Riven Zac Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zac as Riven in LoL
The Riven Zac synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zac, 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 Zac. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Zac helps Riven perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven is an ally to Zac, she sees a little increase in her full damage output. This difference could indicate that Zac supports by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played alongside Zac on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Zac.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Zac on the same side, she on average receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Zac does a poor job of covering Riven in teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Zac?
There is no one best champion pairing for Riven that will 100% of the time be her top synergy. However, overall, Zac is a good companion for Riven. By playing on the same side as Riven, he raises their win rate by 2.8% to 52.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a good strategic relationship between Riven and Zac that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Zac has a lower difficulty than Riven. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Zac allies to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by bringing Riven and Zac together, you probably will not be giving your other allies enough magical damage output. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Zac ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Riven to work well with Zac during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to include in your Riven and Zac synergy build consist of Maw of Malmortius, Death's Dance, and Eclipse. When Riven used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Zac than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Riven had an average win rate of 52.9% when playing alongside Zac with this build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Riven players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Riven and Zac pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.9% winrate overall.
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