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Hello, unfortunately I can’t ask on your stream, it’s because of my bad English, I don’t understand when it’s worth taking the hydra first, when it’s worth taking the eclipse and when the drinker, I would be very happy if you explained this to me thanks

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At which stage in the game do you consider riven to be strongest?

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Probably 2-3 items I'd say, especially if you can get there before enemy

does she kinda fall off late or something or just gets outscaled by some others?

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Riven is really strong from 2-5 items, but I'd say if everyone is 6 items she's pretty weak

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Thank you!

Did the stuff on Riven change as the new season ? I don't rly see Hydra at all but EVERYONE seems to buy it first

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Hi! I just updated the guide to include Hydra things :) Hydra is great

As someone who interested but had fairly bad attempts with Riven, that guide actually taught a lot of things to me. Perfect!

This might be a dumb question, but what do u mean by forgiving lane? What matchups are "forgiving"?

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Things that you can fall behind in but still be allowed to play/farm. If you fall behind a Renekton, you’ll get dove or denied, so that’s UNforgiving. If you fall behind a tank or something they still can’t really dive or deny you, so it’s forgiving. Something that isn’t high pressure.

Hey, i don't get how the jax matchp is free cuzi engage him, he has bone plating so i have to wait, and after the trade he just E on me and with lethal tempo just trade me 10 times what i put him.

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Break bone plating with 3Q, bait him to jump on you then all in him. The matchup is pretty linear pre 6. Don’t play into lethal tempo and you’re fine!

feel like goredrinker is weak compared to eclipse when ever i use gore it heal nothing it has ok dmg but i feel like eclipse dose it better at healing and dealing dmg

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Nah, eclipse leaves massive gaps in Rivens ability to do her job. Yes it works in probably plat and below, but so would trinity force riven.

Want to learn, here to learn

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Nice Guide, will finally be able to beat riven's in lane hehe

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Hehe, if you want help with that matchup just dm me.

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П-полезно?

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Great guide!

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Thankyou so much! I really appreciate that!

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I disagree with many things this guide recommends.
Legend: Alacrity will always be outperformed by Legend: Tenacity
Flash is generally very important on Riven and Exhaust seems to outperform ignite in most cases.

Hydra isn't a very impactful item. If you can afford to build this, you've already won.
Spirit Visage and Gargoyle's Stoneplate have to be built around excessively so to be useful.
Edge of Night is only really better than Silvermere Dawn in a singular circumstance. That's the Vayne Matchup. I can't see another time that this would be better than Silvermere.
I prefer DD over GA in most cases.
I believe 2 of the items you recommend against building are viable (ER/LDR)
Collector is also incredible.

Man, you can get 6 levels in Q? I've been doing it wrong all along. (cheat sheet)
Q kite is only realistically viable when your opponent is blocking your escape (will get hit by q) anything further you're likely better just changing directions or just leaving the fight considering your q won't damage.

I love spyroflex's video but it would likely bombard anyone who watches it. I think it's information overload.

I'd say there's an incredible amount more to trading than what you stated.

Other than what I pointed out seems fine for the most part. I didn't feel like combing through it. Saying to absolutely not build any crit just annoyed me. Crit as a stat is incredibly effective on Riven. Her passive and ult steroids all stack with it on top of her massive AD values from her build I think you're doing something wrong if you don't pick up 20% through LDR/Collector/ER. Maybe someday I'll be able to credit my words enough to convince everyone.

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Thanks for the comment mate!

I guess that's the beauty of League, it can be played multiple ways with different rune setups and builds. This guide is based off of what friends of mine that are 1,000+ LP do on Riven, and what they find effective with my own spin on it.

Crit is greedy on Riven in high elo, if it wasn't, top 10 Riven players like General Sniper, Rueven and Built would build it. The cheat sheet typo has been fixed, thanks for clearing that up.

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Well, it's abnormal. The top 10 Riven players don't build it because it isn't meta. No one has found a way to make it the ideal build that's respected enough for it to matter. I've done some pretty wild things with it in respectable games though.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1105570368

There's a clip from Platinum. I've had countless other successes but they're in a normal blind. Whiile I may have been facing Diamond+ in each game we don't have every player's rank so it'd be hard to know exactly the level of play I was facing.

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Meta literally stands for Most effective tactic available. You yourself just said crit isn't that.

It's abnormal because it's suboptimal against upper echelon players, that this guide covers. If players that play and research this game as their job build certain items, against the best players in the world, they're probably the best items.

I'm not saying crit is weak, obviously it does damage, but for damage you sacrifice so many other stats and facets of her gameplay. Not even Adrian builds crit and he's known for going squishier Riven builds. I'm not here to tell people what builds do damage, I'm here to tell people what build is the best/most consistent. Riven is much more than doing damage.

If Viper and General Sniper, who have access to professional coaching staff that run mathetmatics on items don't build these items on Riven...well...

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How is a new meta discovered? Soraka/Sona/Zilean/Viktor top were all troll and likely reported before all of the above were played in the LCS countless times in their prime.

One does not discover a new meta by playing the exact same 8-10 items every game. Frostfang Kennen was pretty meta but it wasn't when it was originated. If you limit yourself to one mythic you'll likely ignore the games where other mythics would've been better.

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