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Hardly much description in your guide, with no description at all on why the items you chose are any good. In this case, they aren't. Trinity and Banshee's are two items that no Riven should carry these days. I've said it again and again, there are people who've done the math and proved that Infinity Edge gives you more dps overall for a lower price, and there are other items out there that do the same thing as Trinity and do it better. Banshee is just not a good defensive item for Riven, period. Other than its passive, it's a subpar item, and its benefits are halved by the fact that Riven doesn't use mana.
I also find the lack of Frozen Mallet, a core item for Riven, to be disturbing. For all the trouble you've gone to include Banshee's, you could have included a vastly more useful item like the Mallet in this build.
You, like others before you, have chosen to max Q first, and Ki Burst last. I either assume that you've never maxxed Ki Burst first, or never built up the proper AD to see results with maxxing Ki Burst first. Either way, I'd encourage you to experiment more before you spam Q in your title, as you've given little description there as well.
Runes, Masteries, and Summoner Spells aren't bad, and I like the discussion of Summoner Spells, but other than that, you're extremely lacking in much of a description at all. I feel this build needs quite a bit of work before it can be considered good.
He told you everything. Trinity maybe is viable, but Banshees is not.
I also find the lack of Frozen Mallet, a core item for Riven, to be disturbing. For all the trouble you've gone to include Banshee's, you could have included a vastly more useful item like the Mallet in this build.
You, like others before you, have chosen to max Q first, and Ki Burst last. I either assume that you've never maxxed Ki Burst first, or never built up the proper AD to see results with maxxing Ki Burst first. Either way, I'd encourage you to experiment more before you spam Q in your title, as you've given little description there as well.
Runes, Masteries, and Summoner Spells aren't bad, and I like the discussion of Summoner Spells, but other than that, you're extremely lacking in much of a description at all. I feel this build needs quite a bit of work before it can be considered good.
and ur skills suck too u should lvlup w more e and w are equally important lvl up them at the same time
Seems like we both like to play the same champs. :D
Anyways. Amazing Riven guide. but I question the item build.
With NO sustainability in lane, Riven relies on livesteal, like Ezreal. this, my friend makes BT essential to your core items. Approve Triforce and YMG as core, and Wriggles skipped to rush BT. Merc Threads or Ionian is a must. havent tried Ninja tabi on her yet.
Runes...
I run the Ezreal runes on her, swapping MP/5 seals for resilience.
Masteries, I run 23/6/1 cos I run Ghost Exhaust on her
Riven is tier 2 Jungler according to Elementz, can clear it quite fast. However I felt that after lvl8 jungler Riven loses out abit to Lane riven. So Im sticking to Laning her.
P.S. I'm thinking of going over to NA/EU server. You are on...?