Riven Build Guide by Bl00dMessiah

I usually start of with a Doran's sword because you have enough armor and magic resist, from your runes, to go without the Doran's shield. However, due to the Sejuani Patch, Riot lowered Riven's health regeneration. so I highly suggest starting with a Doran's Shield. I also highly suggest getting Cloth Armor and 5X health potions. Cloth Armor actually gives +8 more armor, however does not give the bonus health and health regen. BUT starting off with 5 health potions is more than enough to sustain you in lane, and to get the gold you need for your first trip back. Getting Cloth Armor also puts you ahead in your build because you will also build this into the Wriggle's Lantern and not waste 475 gold for a Doran's Shield. Your choice ^.^

Anyways, Start with Doran's Shield/ Cloth Armor and make your way to top lane. While on top lane I don't go back until I farm enough gold for Madred's Razor and Boots of Speed. This usually costs about 1350 gold. Riven usually does not need to return back to base even if she is low because of her health regeneration bonus from Doran's Shield and/or the health from your Health Potion. I make my first trip home once I reached 1350+ gold.

I then continue to go for kills and last hit minions until I save about 1,300+ gold. Then I return to base again and finish my boots. I highly suggest Mercury's Treads for the extra magic resist and tenacity. You can also choose to buy Ionian Boots of Lucidity for the extra Cooldown reduction. I recorded my times, and it took me ABOUT 15 minutes to finish my Boots and Wriggle's Lantern.

Mid-Game:

At this point I would usually be finished with my Wriggle's Lantern and my choice of boots. I would now be working towards my The Brutalizer for extra AD and because later I will build this into the Youmuu's Ghostblade. After Youmuu's Ghostblade I would either choose to start building my The Bloodthirster or Warmog's Armor. Choose depending on how you are doing in-game.

Riven should be doing a lot of damage and have a lot of health at this point. I recorded my average time, and by the 35 minute mark I would have my Boots, Wriggle's Lantern, B. F. Sword, and Warmog's Armor.

Late Game:

Ok so there are 2 paths.

The "I finished my Bloodthirster first and now I'm working on my Warmog's path":

If you finished your The Bloodthirster I would buy a Giant's Belt and then finish my Youmuu's Ghostblade first. Why? Youmuu's Ghostblade has some insane stats that have really been neglected this whole time. It provide CDR, Attack Speed , Attack damage, Armor penetration, movement speed, critical strike chance, and an awesome active ability. This item is really helpful, and I felt that if you built both your Warmog's and your bloodthirster first you would be denying yourself an awesome item. Not only that but it costs 1350 to finish (if you bought The Brutalizer before)

Or the "I finished my Warmog's and now I'm working on my Bloodthirster path"

Same Thing above but flipped. Get the Youmuu's Ghostblade before finishing your bloodthirster.

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ANYWAYZ BACK TO LATE GAME
I would get Atma's after i finished Warmog's Armor The Bloodthirsterand Youmuu's Ghostblade simply because now that Riven has a large amount of HP (about 3000) She will gain more bonus AD by getting the Atma's AFTER her Warmog's

You now have finished YOUR WHOLE ITEMS BUILD WOOOHOOO :DD <3 <3

Done?

Item Build:

Core:

Boots of Speed

The Brutalizer

The Bloodthirster

• Because they provide you with a lot of AD, CDR, and lifesteal.
• They allow Riven to do a lot early game damage (If you get these items early)
• The Brutalizer is not too expensive
  
  
  

  Other Viable Item Options:

  
  
  There are many other Item choices available.
  
  
  Need more resistance?
  
  
  
  
  This is a super helpful item. It provides attack damage and magic resist. Its passive is also extremely useful. It provides a shield that absorbs 300 magic damage. The shield lasts for 4 seconds or until it breaks. This item should be obtained when you're fighting against alot of strong AP champions that are doing well. This item actually saves you from death. It saved my *** a couple times before :D
  
  
  This item is to defend your self from the op auto-attacking kings. *Cough Tryn.. Master yi Cough*
  It's passive allows a 20% chance on being hit that the attacker will have reduced movement speed and attack speed by 35% FOR 3 SECONDS! It also provides +350 Health, +75 Armor, +25 health regen per 5 seconds, AND 5% CDR. HOWEVER, this item is extremely expensive, about 3,000 gold. This will put you behind your AD build. (if you are doing an AD build)
  This item also has an extremely helpful active ability. It slows the movement speed and attacking speed by 35% for 2 seconsd +0.5 second for each 100 armor and magic resist. The active + the passive (if it was activated) gives 70% slow. WOW... lmfao. Definitely an item to consider if you plan on tanking more than outputting more damage.
  
  
  This item has one of the best actives in the game, in my opinion. It can counter those long crowd control such as Nether Grasp Terrify Puncturing Taunt idol of Durant Infinite Duress and other snares/stuns. it's Cleanse in an item. It also provides a large amoutn of Magic resist. If your up against annoying champions with long crowd control abilities I highly suggest getting this item to save your butt.
  
  
  This is the last line of defense. Revival upon death. gaurdian angel is a very helpful item. It provides a lot of Armor and magic resist. This item is super fun. You can turret dive, jump into the enemy team, and do other suicidal acts that you usually can't do :D lmfao. Now don't go jumping into a 5 vs 1 fight, or go to their base turrets and try to tank the whole thing from full health. The idea is for you to take advantage of your new ability and exploit it to win.
  
  
  Force of Nature provides +76 Magic Resist, 40 health per 5 seconds, and +8% movement speed. Force of Nature is a godly item against AP heavy teams. AP champions (are usually slow) can not chase too well, the extra movement speed assures that you can escape easily. The magic resist also blocks out a lot of nukey, AP burst skills.
  
  BOOTS
  Other viable boots
  
  
  I highly suggest these boots for the CDR. If the enemy team's have no slows/stun/snares (which is rare) I would get these boots. It will help Riven to use her skills more often, afterall, she is a cooldown dependent champion.
  Need MOAR attack damage?
  
  No problem a few good items include...
  
  
  This item is great against armor heavy teams. Each hit allows you to apply a 15% armor debuff on your enemy. a 45% armor reduction is an insane amount, and your auto attacks + Passive bonus + Armor penetration = insane damage in one hit.
  
  
  A 2ND ONE?!? WHY?!?!? well because The Bloodthirster provides the most damage out of all the damage items* when fully stacked, other than a fully stacked sword of occult which is not reliable... Not only that but having 2 bloodthirsters allows you to stack both at the same time! Having 2 fully stack blood thirsters means 200 AD and 50% lifesteal... from 2 items. HOLY SHI...TAKYI MUSHROOMS. I highly suggest considering getting a 2nd one if your looking for some insane damage.
  
  
  This item provides some attack damage, health, and a nice passive debuff. I suggest getting this item when you're against champions with high mobility such as Master Yi or Miss Fortune. It slows your the target's move speed by 40% for 2.5 seconds. It helps you chase and even run away in certain situations. This item also provides 700Health! This is a huge boost in health, and the extra AD won't hurt anybody. WELL...maybe not YOUR team...anywayz ;)
  

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  Okay so here is a few item builds you can choose :
  
  
  PURE AD, Glass Cannon Broooo:
  
  Yes 3 bloodthirsters... it will give 300 ad + 75% lifesteal alone. But this is a super ad only build. I don't really suggest using this. This build also gives attack speed and armor penetration. A good STRONG build
  
  

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  PURE TANK :
  
  
  
  If you are able to complete this build you will have 288 Armor, 114 Magic resist,and +80 health regen + .35% of your health per 5...AND THIS IS without the base armor/resistance ANDDD WITHOUT RUNES. DAAYYYYUMMMMMM tanking like a boss.
  
  

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  Tanky DPS (The build I use):
  
  
  
  This build is perfect for my playstyle. I am able to harass whenever the f* I want and I can do insane damage, I also have a health, armor penetration, CDR, and movement speed. ITSS BOOTYFUL.

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  Super Strong build (Build from Howrue)
  
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  This build i got from a friend of mine howrue. I was on his team as he played, and dayummm was he good. He had soo much damage output that even the enemy team agreed that it was unfair. This is a great build, it provides ALOT more damage output then my normal build, and it still is quite tanky. The armor from Guardian Angel, the magic resist from Maw of Malmortius, and the lifesteal from The Bloodthirster is more than enough to keep you alive. I definitely suggest trying this build out. Thanks Howrue hope we can have more fun games in the future :D
  

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