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Riven Build Guide by Seth346

Top [25.07] Become A Riven God

Top [25.07] Become A Riven God

Updated on April 14, 2025
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League of Legends Build Guide Author Seth346 Riven Build Guide By Seth346 Updated on April 14, 2025
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EnixTheRiven | September 22, 2024 6:45pm
Hello, the build suggestion is good, but it would be more useful if there was a more detailed guide such as which items to choose according to the opponents. Yes, there is a detailed description at the bottom, but unfortunately there is no guidance on which build should be applied against the opponents.
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Seth346 (39) | September 23, 2024 5:09pm
The problem with creating something like that is that it very easily and very quickly becomes outdated. From that point on it gives not only outdating advice, but wrong advice. On top of this, Fixing it is never easy. It often results in rewriting the entire sections 5-6 times a season. Whereas up top in the drop down sections I can pretty easily show a few builds and give explanations on when to use them.
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RightAssCrack | January 28, 2022 6:08am
Nice build id just change the haste in the runes with attack speed since you'll have 100 ability haste anyways. :)
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Seth346 (39) | February 27, 2022 3:12pm
It's pretty up in the air as to which is best. The 8 ability haste helps you hit the sweet spot sooner. That can be more valuable than the Attack speed in certain matchups. Against squishy-ranged champions, the AD is superior due to short but impactful trades.
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Gunblade logic | January 18, 2022 2:20am
is conq better than elec?
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Seth346 (39) | February 27, 2022 3:10pm
Depends on your playstyle. If you're going to do mostly short trades, elec is best. If you're looking to slap it out till a second rotation Conq is better. If you're going to play more cooldown oriented, Elec is best.
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SilverAvalanche | January 17, 2022 10:42pm
What runes do you recommend with the lethality build?
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Seth346 (39) | February 27, 2022 3:10pm
I've found a better damage build than the lethality. You can see it under the test build now. This allows you to go ham on certain targets. You can use Galeforce to engage or disengage or finish a target. I've found it much more satisfying and practical than the meta build.
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Weekendly | January 2, 2022 2:44am
ez win against gnar
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Seth346 (39) | January 6, 2022 2:30am
Good **** bro, glad it worked out for you! Gnar is usually a skill matchup so I'm glad you crushed it!
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QDEX (2) | October 8, 2021 2:13am
this is a very different build! Looks like it could work though so I'll try it out in norms, also this is one of the only guides without youmuus which is insanely busted and it has hullbreaker which I don't think is very good on riven because she isn't suited to splitpushing
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Seth346 (39) | October 8, 2021 11:39pm
Youmuu's is a good item, but it doesn't offer any durability. It gives ability haste, but in my build, you need no additional Ability haste.

You end up getting at least 78 Ability Haste. At this point you have about 45% CDR. If you want to surpass this value, it will cost you. For just another 10% cdr you need more than 40 Ability haste, which would be Black cleaver and youmuu's. While these aren't incredibly intensive on the build's resources, they do sacrifice quite a bit in gold efficiency and acquiration of stats.

Where something like Hullbreaker gives >198% gold efficiency, Youmuu's (99% (in combat) -127% (out of combat) and Black Cleaver (105%) pale in comparison of gold efficiency. Hullbreaker also costs less than either of these making the power spike much sooner.

Have you ended up trying it out? How did it go? The playstyle to make it work properly is much more split focused, but often I've found that's ideal anyways.
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QDEX (2) | November 5, 2021 4:01pm
I've tried it out in flex and I can only make it work when I'm super fed but then I don't want to group which is usually what I like to do on riven, it's a very different playstyle that's for sure
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Vighar (1) | August 1, 2021 3:04am
Incomplete, and is not simple. EDIT: They have listened to my pleas and my suggestions, Therefore the guide is now simple, AND complete.
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Seth346 (39) | October 8, 2021 11:29pm
How so? On either accord. I would say something that considers itself complete may be simple but in that simplicity, worthless. Times change, as do information. Even people change. So anything that truly considers itself complete is worthless in a matter of time.
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Vighar (1) | October 12, 2021 3:36am
Idk if you updated it or not, cuz i think it looks better now? anywho I'd like to see those "Full Build Example" thingies, since usually i just pop this durin the match and dont have much time to read everything, so i want things simple. Also having situational, best against, worst against, kinda item lists.
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colterino | June 15, 2021 5:22am
I have a problem, I haven't really played riven too much but I play her sometimes but I always feel like the auto-attack is too slow any recommendation on that?
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Seth346 (39) | June 18, 2021 12:32pm
Her base Attack Speed is rather slow. Against characters with faster attack speed, often kiting around them will allow you to get the same damage amount while slowing down their damage due to them having to walk and then auto. Now, during the fast q combo, her Attack Speed is very high assuming you do it well.
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HARS3NATOR | February 3, 2021 4:39am
After the nerfs to goredrinker and ravenous hydra on patch 11.3, does the build path differ?
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Seth346 (39) | February 3, 2021 7:47am
I would presume so. Some people will still probably swear by the rav gore build. I think there will be other options, not many though. I'll get into testing here soon since the patch just dropped.
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Ortegaben (1) | January 28, 2021 11:10am
When do I use the out of spite build?
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Seth346 (39) | January 29, 2021 4:38am
The out of spite build is an alternative to the normal goredrinker build. It deals an incredible amount of damage, but obviously isn't quite as durable. It takes a little more precision to pilot.

Use it into champions that would win short fights, the best example being Veigar or fed ADCS. Into situations like those you want to kill your target and be able to take down the rest, this build allows you to do just that.

Into a heavy tank comp, the normal goredrinker build would likely be the best.
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Serene Potato | June 17, 2016 9:25pm
Kayle vs Riven Matchup help plz?
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Seth346 (39) | June 17, 2016 11:23pm
Alright, for this matchup you have to manage yourself well. If you take too much poke, you'll never be able to engage. If you can't engage, you can't keep your position in lane, if you can't keep your position in lane, you lose the possibility for a lead from cs. Use clipping to avoid the majority of her damage. Your main priority in winning this lane is to make it to level 6 without falling upon a disadvantage.

Now you're level 6, engage once just to poke her down a little, just like all the ranged matchups. e q (check w range), if you're confident it will hit, use it. This is my "main trading video" combo, except you use the full combo on kayle and disengage with third q (pop her up and walk away).

After you trade with her, assuming she has fervor and has used her qwe, she will be outtrading you slightly. Dip off into a brush. Who knows what health you have, who cares? Right after this, you will have the advantage. Her e and w will be down when all of your abilities are up. Engage on her the second her e drops.. You have ~6 seconds while her e is down and even if she has ult, she can't do anything to prevent you from killing her. After this, you should complete whatever item you decided to rush. Black cleaver is still useful in this matchup because of the hp and MS. Once you have this advantage, she's nothing but fodder for your snowbal.. nay.. Avalanche to destroy the game. You can pretty much engage however you want after this point.

If you get a disadvantage early game, she can outdamage you with her ulti and possibly even outduel you, try to avoid this. If you get to that point, the rest of the game you'll be forced to face her wrath. Also, boot rush helps in this matchup (I like Swifties) unless you get very far ahead. A good Kayle will rush berserker's greaves, most though, will rush stinger, which previously got nerfed. If she rushes that, screw boots, just get black cleaver or youmuu's, I'd say they're probably on par damage wise against her at this point. I usually get fervor for this matchup. WHY THO?? SHE'S RANGED. Well my good sir, she stands there autoing you with her ultis, fights take abserdly long because of it. And most of the time she ults and my thunderlord's proc just gets blocked. The best Kayle's will wait until the end to try to bait our your ulti, you should be able to kill her normally if she holds her ult that long, so you force it out of her and ult the second her's drops.

Fervor black cleaver stacks very nicely on her during these times so that the second her invulnerability drops, you can one shot her assuming you didn't lose your advantage and you're already dead.

Enjoy facing her in the future.
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