Shaco with Riven
How to Synergize Shaco and Riven
based on 3,924 Shaco with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shaco Riven Synergy Summary
Best Shaco vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shaco and Riven
Tips for Playing as Shaco with Riven
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
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.
Shaco Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Shaco in LoL
The Shaco 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, Shaco sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Riven. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Riven helps Shaco perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shaco plays on the same team as Riven, he sees a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This may indicate that Riven does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Shaco is played together with Riven on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Riven.
Moreover, when Shaco plays with Riven on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Riven does a decent job of protecting Shaco in team fights.
Synergies between Shaco and Riven
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Is Shaco better when played alongside Riven?
There is no one best synergy for Shaco that will no matter what be his best synergy. However, overall, Riven is a very typical teammate for Shaco. By playing on the same side as Shaco, she lowers their win rate by -0.6% to 48.8%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Shaco and Riven that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Riven has a lower difficulty than Shaco. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Riven teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing together, Shaco players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by bringing Shaco and Riven together, you may not be granting your other teammates enough magic damage. Plan to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Riven teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Shaco in order to synergize with Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to get in your Shaco and Riven synergy build consist of Serylda's Grudge, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Shaco combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Riven than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Shaco boasted an average winrate of 48.8% when playing alongside Riven with this build.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.8% win rate overall.
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