Sett with Riven
How to Synergize Sett and Riven
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Sett Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Sett and Riven
Advice to Understand How Riven Will Play
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.
Sett Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Sett in LoL
The Sett Riven synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Riven, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Sett sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Riven. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Riven helps Sett perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sett plays on the same team as Riven, he gets a noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This may indicate that Riven doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Sett is played together with Riven on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Riven.
Additionally, when Sett plays with Riven on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Riven does a decent job of protecting Sett in teamfights.
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Is Sett better when played alongside Riven?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Sett that will always be his #1 ally. Yet, Riven is a below average teammate for Sett. By being on the same side as Sett, she lowers their win rate by -1.5% to 49.0%. This shows that there is a negative strategic relationship between Sett and Riven that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Riven has a much greater difficulty compared to Sett. That means Sett players should be cautious when finding Riven teammates to play with, as they will require a much greater level of skill to play well with you.
When playing alongside, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by pairing Sett and Riven together, you probably will not be granting your other allies a great deal of magical damage output. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Riven ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Sett in order to synergize with Riven during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to have in your Sett and Riven synergy build include Titanic Hydra, Sundered Sky, and Stridebreaker. When Sett included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Riven than with most other common builds. In fact, Sett had an average winrate of 49.0% when playing alongside Riven with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, Sett players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.0% winrate overall.
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