Ziggs with Riven
How to Synergize Ziggs and Riven
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Ziggs Riven Synergy Summary
Best Ziggs vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Ziggs and Riven
Tips for Playing as Ziggs with Riven
Even if you're far from a fight you can still help from afar with Mega Inferno Bomb.
Slowing your enemies with Hexplosive Minefield makes it easier to land other abilities.
Knocking yourself over walls with Satchel Charge can be great when chasing after or escaping from enemies.
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.
Ziggs Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Ziggs in LoL
The Ziggs 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, Ziggs 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 negative change shows that Riven helps Ziggs perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Ziggs is an ally to Riven, he sees a small increase in his full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Riven supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Ziggs is played alongside Riven on the same side, 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 alongside Riven.
Additionally, when Ziggs plays with Riven on the same team, he usually 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 Ziggs during team fights.
Synergies between Ziggs and Riven
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Is Ziggs better when played alongside Riven?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Ziggs that will no matter what be his best synergy. Yet, Riven is a pretty good teammate for Ziggs. By locking into the same side as Ziggs, she improves their win rate by 2.4% to 50.5%. This demonstrates that there is a somewhat important bond between Ziggs and Riven that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Riven has a much greater difficulty compared to Ziggs. That means Ziggs players should be very careful when finding Riven allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working alongside, Ziggs players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Ziggs and Riven together, you will not be giving your other teammates a lot of crowd control. We recommend you have other champs on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Riven teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Ziggs to synergize with Riven during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to have in your Ziggs and Riven synergy build consist of Void Staff, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Ziggs used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Riven than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Ziggs boasted an average winrate of 50.5% when playing alongside Riven with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.5% winrate overall.
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