Predacon - From Coal to Diamond

[quote=Nighthawk]Gratz on gold, but arcade riven is the best riven skin (although I own arcade dragonblade and b[s]u[/s]attle bunny[/quote]

[quote=Predacon][quote=Nighthawk]Gratz on gold, but arcade riven is the best riven skin (although I own arcade dragonblade and b[s]u[/s]attle bunny[/quote] You don't know how badly I want Championship Riven lol[/quote]

[quote=Predacon][img=http://i.imgur.com/oryXXNy.png] I tried to trade early with Nasus here, didn't turn out so well as he came out on top of trades, not too sure how I should handle trading with him. Rammus tried to gank him early but he flashed out, I later died to Talon coming top, which Nasus got to freeze the lane from there. Sadly Tahm Kench was unbanned, so botlane got stomped really hard, and mid ad Ezreal didn't much of anything. I tp'd bot and got a kill, but this wasn't enough to do much. Things I need to work on are early game trades, and figuring out how to deny Nasus players better as Riven.[/quote]

[quote=Predacon][img=http://i.imgur.com/PqqUVgP.png] I played this game very poorly, no excuses, taking ignite was also a mistake against Graves, I simply can't outburst him. We could have won this, but I played the last team fight so poor which is while they were trying to take baron, went right into Jinx chompers without realizing it, and bursted down instantly. I learned fighting Graves is a mistake, and wait for jungle support, try to farm will outscale if I play safe to easily all in, probably can trade at level 3.[/quote]

[quote=Predacon][img=http://i.imgur.com/mBB2BT2.png] I've learned from quite a few games to simply not fight Poppy, she will destroy Riven, however I made a mistake getting greed for a cannon minion under my tower which lead to my one death. With some clever TPs though I was able to kill Poppy on my own, Graves also ganked her which picked up a kill. I dodged a Diana gank with a really well placed flashed as well. Ganked mid to kill Annie with TF, and also took killed Jhin quite a few times. Everyone played really solid this game.[/quote]

[quote=Predacon][img=http://i.imgur.com/UpGxVQy.png] I died early to Shyvana with a silly trade this time, because she hit 3 at just the right time. It didn't really matter though because bottom lane just utterly stomped on our side, Tristana was very good. She was a good leader also, making the right calls for the part. We tried to take baron, which ended up with the enemy Yi getting a triple kill, and me the lone survivor as I TP'd in toe flank Caitlyn and Velkoz from behind, easily killing them. I was able to survive with the baron buff to allow us to push and end the game.[/quote]

[quote=Predacon][img=http://i.imgur.com/lHlLC7u.png] Well this was actually a mistake, I meant to play a normal, but didn't realize it was ranked until after I won. I pretty much played a perfect Vayne game 10-0, legendary, my teammates just got my executed at the very end lol. Sivir and Taric put a ton of pressure on us in lane, and Zed and Shyvana even came to try to dive us, but Darius made a super clutch TP play picking me up a kill and one for himself, this snowballed us quick. I rushed a QSS as my second item after RFC to counter Zed, and it worked really well, gonna make that my standard from now on against Zeds. Overall I think I play way better when I'm not under the stress of ranked for some reason, and I didn't even know this was one.[/quote]

[quote=Predacon][img=http://i.imgur.com/Wvl4EuR.png] Well I died early to Darius being silly, but overall we were dominating this game, until I realized Talon was quite bad at him. This allowed Vayne to mostly do as she pleased, I took out most of their team aside from Vayne, which allowed her to clean up. After one or two bad teamfights, Amumu went afk, and the game was lost.[/quote]

[quote=CrevsDaak]When you face Nasus, charge your Q 2 times (use it to farm so you hide your true intentions), and get close to Nasus, throw Q-AA-W (cancel the Q by moving and the AA with W, the W with E or use E to run away after that) and get away with E. Try having your Q off-cooldown as if he gets you with his W he can hurt you. Also use the fast Q (AA-cancel with Q, cancel Q with move, repeat until Q goes on cooldown) combo to trade and always cancel the animation on W and Ravenous Hydra (same if you pop your ultimate during a fight). Also, try getting Death's Dance as your 1st item on Riven. It always (literally, always) gave me good results, because 1) you can heal a lot with your abilities 2) it gives you 10% CDR and 75 AD 3) it's price is the same as Ravenous Hydra. Getting lot's of CDR as Riven means you can deal more damage, soak up more damage and move faster (probably the champion that benefits from CDR the most at least IMO). Also when you face Darius, you have to cheese him. Take one of the small minions from the enemies' Blue (or steal one from your own jungle, it's freaking SoloQ after all), and clean the minion wave FAST, so you get level two faster and can cheese him with an early kill (if you avoid his Q and his E, he won't be able to kill you). After that be careful of your HP when you fight him, as he can dunk you and he heals a lot with his Q once he gets HP items. Also when you face immobile dumbass toplaners such as Nasus or Darius let them push you under your tower and get a free kill (or Flash) when your jungler ganks (also, this makes it super hard for their jungler to gank you). IDK why but I have the feeling you know all this LMAO. Anyway, gl and hf![/quote]

[quote=Jpikachu1999]I noticed quite a bit of [[Riven]] gameplay. Like, a lot. I'm just curious, since it isn't obvious from the screenshots, what order do you build your items in? Do you go [[Ravenous Hydra]] > [[The Black Cleaver]], or the other way around? I'll admit, I haven't played [[Riven]] a lot, mostly because I'm not 100% comfortable with the mechanics, but I've been having some good luck with running [[Intelligence]], 5% flat CDR from runes, and rushing [[The Black Cleaver]] and [[Ionian Boots of Lucidity]].[/quote]