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Spells:
Flash
Ignite
Ability Order
Runic Blade (PASSIVE)
Riven Passive Ability
Introduction

First of all I dont think Riven is UP as many people said. Riven is actually a Champ similar to Orianna: Called UP and later when some people got used to her she was pretty OP.
Same with Riven, just learn how to play with her...
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Good news guys:
Base Stats:
- Attack Speed per level increased to 3.5 from 2.9
- Base Armor increased to 15 from 12
Broken Wings bonus attack damage ratio increased to 0.7 from 0.6.
Ki Shout cast time decreased to 0.25 from 0.5
Valor:
- Shield increased to 60/90/120/150/180 from 40/70/100/130/160.
- Cooldown decreased to 10/9/8/7/6 from 11/10/9/8/7.
Wind Slash:
- Cast time decreased to 0.25 from 0.5
- Missile speed increased by 10% to 2200 from 2000.
Flat AD Marks, Greater Quintessence of Desolation Flat ArPen Quints,
Flat Armor Seals and
Flat Magicresist Glyphs.I chose the Flat AD Runes because all of Rivens skills scale with it and she is getting a buff which makes her scaling better. The Flat Armor and Magicresist are usefull for the early game when you dont have Phage/Frozen Mallet, so you are not that squishie. If you still think you are to squishie you can also take
Flat HP Quints. This will help you much in early game. Furthermore I tested
Flat Movementspeed Quints and did pretty well with it. With the first boots and Janna in my team I got 403 movementspeed.Reason for taking Flat AD Runes instead of Flat ArPen Runes:
I did some math. When
Riven is level 3 you have a point in all skills espect the Ulti. At that point I started calculating how much damage you do with one Combo (Valor, AA, Ki-Burst, AA, Broken Wings, AA, Broken Wings, AA, Broken Wings, AA). The result was that you will deal ~20 damage more when you are taking Flat ArPen Runes. So I decided to take the Flat AD Runes since your shield also profit from it. Well there is nearly no difference between it. So its pretty much up to you which Runes you are taking. But saying Flat ArPen Runes are better is just not true!
My masteries are 15/6/9 now.
With these masteries I become a bit tankier and my damageoutput is pretty high.
I changed it because now I will get the most profit from it:
1. I become tankier
2. I level faster
3. I do more damage
Summoner Spells:
As summoner spells I chose
Flash and
Ignite.
Flash is very usefull to escape in combination with
Valor and
Broken Wings as well as finish someone with
Wind Slash and
Ignite.Why
Ignite is better than
Exhaust:1) Normaly you are faced against Off-Tanks with a selfheal like Irelia and Yorik at the toplane. So taking
Ignite is much more effective because you do more damage then they do, whereas they have a sealfheal. So taking
Ignite is much better option.2) When you use
Exhaust at someone he can just
Flash away, stun you or slow you so its like you dont have a summoner spell.3)
Ignite ALWAYS does what its suppost to do. Ever done
Ignite +
Wind Slash?! Its a sure kill even if they
Flash away.All in all
Exhaust is an option when the enemie is stupid and stay fighting, so
Ignite is the much better alternative. I cant tell enough how often I just killed someone cause of it... If the enmie is low, and you know he has
Flash up, just activate your Ulti, do some skills ,
Ignite him. I always get every kill useing
Ignite even if the enmie
Flash away. Just wait a bit until Ignite is nearly finished and then Ulti him. With
Exhaust you wouldnt have got him.
Runic Blade. After using a skill, your next autoattack will deal 50% of your bonus attackdamage plus 5-15 (depends on your level) bonus damage. The passive can stack up to 3 times, this means after you used
Broken Wings your next 3 attacks will deal bonus damage. After you waited some seconds the passive times out, so make sure to use it. If you also use more spells then your
Broken Wings you will have to autoattack between every spell to get the highest damageoutput.First three Skills i get are
Valor ->
Broken Wings ->
Ki Burst.Priority after the first 3 Levels:
Valor gives me an early free harras because I get a shield which prevents me from damage and my passive will proc which helps me to harras. For more harras I get
Broken Wings at level 2. In order to make my damage saver I put a point in
Ki Burst to stun the target when I dash in.Because many persons suggest to max
Ki Burst first, I tried it and yeah if you are not so sure with your
Broken Wings its a good alternative also because the enemie gets frightened when you do such a burst with it: But dont forget
Broken Wings gives you at all ranks 60 more damage whereas
Ki Burst only gives you 40 more damage. All in all you deal 100 less damage when you are maxing
Ki Burst. The other option to max
Valor seems to me pretty nice and I also do it when I get constantly harrased. But most of the time I maxed
Broken Wings first. Furthermore, in almost any situation early game, where the skill order matters, you will not get off more than one use on each ability. Therefore it makes perfect sense to level
Broken Wings first. But because its harder to hit I now changed the Skill Sequence. Test it out and you will see the result.
First of all I get
Boots of Speed and three
Health Potions. The reason is simple: My harras will be better because it helps me to get my passive of and to get away save without taking any damage. The three
Health Potions fix the lack of selfheal until I get some lifesteal.On my first back I will get
The Brutalizer, a Sight Ward Ward and some
Health Potions.
The Brutalizer gives me the armorpenetration which I dont have and also a nice AD-Boost for all my skills.After that I try to grap
Vampiric Scepter and
Phage on one back in order to stay longer in lane and to be a bit tankier. If I also have enought gold for
Mercury's Treads I will buy them too. If the enemies dont have so much CC I will grap
Ionian Boots of Lucidity.My next Item depends on the enemies. They do a lot of damage, then get
Frozen Mallet. If I need more damage and the enemies arent so strong I will get
The Bloodthirster which gives me the most damage in the game when its full stacked.Now I do a lot of damage and are not so squishie. In order to improve both I buy
Atma's Impaler. My last item will be
Banshee's Veil which gives me good magiresistance, life and an insane passive. During my backs I always grap Sight Ward Ward to save me from being ganked. Finally I will finish my
Youmuu's Ghostblade.Core Build:
Final well-rounded Build:
Against AD-Based Team:
Build in testing:
Situational Items:
Against AD-Based Teams:
Atma's Impaler, amazing in combination with Frozen Mallet etc .
Randuin's Omen, nice active and well rounded stats.
Guardian Angel, good passive which is realy helpfull when you are getting focused.
Sunfire Cape, all in all good item.
Frozen Heart, good against
Master Yi and other AD-Champs.
Thornmail, prefer
Frozen Heart.Against AP-Based Teams:
Hexdrinker, nice item on Riven which gives her good AD and magicresist.
Banshee's Veil, has a pretty nice passive and provides nice magiresist.
Force of Nature, realy good item which gives you a nice movement and magicresist.
Quicksilver Sash, good against
Warwick ,
Malzahar and
Mordekaiser as well as heavy CC teams.
Spirit Visage, viable but not that good.
Wit's End, viable but Riven isnt an autoattacker.For more damage and if the enemie is stacking armor:
Last Whisper, good against armorstacking enemies
The Bloodthirster, gives you 100 more AD if you really think you need more damage its the best item you can getItems in testing:
Shurelya's Reverie, nice CD-Reduction and amaizing active
Cloak and Dagger, instead of
Mercury's Treads (pick
Ionian Boots of Lucidity then
Riven is UP. The reason for that is because the just dont now how to play with her...
Riven is not
Irelia. You cant go in when ever you want. YOu cant take as much damage as you want.During your laningphase you can easy harras your enemie: Dash in with
Valor, do an AA, use
Ki Burst do an AA and go out with
Broken Wings. This is the savest way of harrasing an enemie. For more damage you can go in with
Broken Wings (make sure to AA between the casts) use
Ki Burst do an AA and go out with
Valor.In order to get away from a gank go in the bush, wait for the enemies coming, directly use
Ki Burst and jump out with
Valor and
Broken Wings. When this is not enought use
Flash.
Smite and
Flash, my runes are the same too.First route:
Your first item is a
Vampiric Scepter. Put the first skillpoint in
Broken Wings and start at the Wolvecamp.Then go to the Wraiths and smite the big one, put a point in
Ki Burst and finish the camp.After that you go to the small Golems, kill them and put a point in
Valor. After you backed, grapped an
Cloth Armor and a
Health Potions you go to the Blue Buff and take it. After that you go to the Wolfcamp and put a 2nd point in
Valor. Then you go on with Wraiths, Red Buff and Golems. Then get
Madred's Razors and
Boots of Speed. Finish your
Wriggle's Lantern next.Second route:
Start with a
Cloth Armor and 5
Health Potions. Put a point in
Broken Wings, go to the small Golems and let a teammate pull. After you finished them you can do a level 2 gank since you have a point in
Broken Wings and
Ki Burst. When you dont gank go to the wraiths and wolfs. Now you should be level 3 and have 2
Health Potions left. Now you can also gank or give the blue buff to your AP-Carry or do the red buff. After you have more than 700 gold, go back and grap
Madred's Razors and some
Health Potions. Now you can go on where ever you want.Jungle Itembuild (exchange
Wriggle's Lantern with
The Bloodthirster later):Stonewall made a pretty good video for the first route:
For Runes I use
Flat AD Marks,
Movmentspeed Quints,
Flat Armor Seals and
Flat Magicresist Glyphs.In my opinion
Movementspeed Quints are a must have on Dominion, they help you very much to get from capture point to capture point.Summoner Spells:
For summoner spells I take
Ghost and
Garrison.
Ghost helps me to get faster to other capture points.
Garrison helps me to defend and capture points.Items:
My starting items are
Boots of Speed and
Prospector's Blade. Then I go on with
The Brutalizer,
Ionian Boots of Lucidity and
Phage. My next items will be
Warmog's Armor and followed by
Sanguine Blade and
Atmas's Impaler followed by
Entropy. Now I deal "Tons of Damage" as Phreak would say... In order to survive longer and get some resistance I garp
Guardian Angel,
Force of Nature or
Last Whisper instead of
Youmuu's Ghostblade.Your job on Dominion is to kill an enemie as fast as you can so you can easy capture a point or defend a point. Because you have nice AoE spells you can pretend many enemies from capturing a point.
You dont have to use the build if you dont like it. This is only how I play her and I can say that you do always good with this build (from early- to lategame). In lategame you are an unstoppable monster who can rape everyone.
Champs I owned at top:
Champs where I needed ganks:
Finally a Quadra-Kill I have done with Riven (nothing special):





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