Hello and welcome to my Riven Jungle Guide! The objective of this guide is to enable those who are at least somewhat familiar with Riven to play her in the jungle. If you are new to Riven, I recommend that you try her out top lane first and use an appropriate guide.

Pros

> Strong ganks > High mobility > Good clear time > Difficult to counter jungle > No mana

Riven's ganks are strong because she has a stun, a knockup, and high mobility. If your laner has any crowd control, you will most likely net a kill or force a flash. Riven has pretty good clear time, especially if you weave auto-attacks between your abilities. Since Riven is a strong duelist and can hop over walls, your opponent will have a hard time counter jungling you. Finally, Riven has no mana costs to worry about.

Cons

> Squishy > Damage reduced when chasing > Not a frontline > No inherent sustain

Even if you decide to get some tank items, Riven's first two items will always leave her low on defense for early/mid-game team fights. When Broken Wings is used for chasing an opponent, Riven's damage output is significantly reduced. Unless someone on your team is very fed such that you were able to buy a lot of tanky items, Riven is typically not an effective frontline. Finally, Riven has no built in healing abilities for sustain during jungle clears.

This will be updated soon.

I'll keep this section short. Domination and Precision are the best trees for Riven in the jungle. I recommend taking the Conqueror keystone, as this will give you the most DPS in general, but especially in teamfights. You can safely take Electrocute or Dark Harvest instead if you want more burst on a gank. Electrocute is slightly more consistent, and Dark Harvest gives slightly more burst. Between those two, you should just copy whatever other junglers are taking in the current meta.

Flash is essential for Riven and Smite is necessary to jungle. Which smite you take is ultimately up to you, but I recommend taking Skirmisher's Sabre, as challenging smite is useful for dueling. Stalker's Blade is useful on ganks but less impactful later in teamfights. Tracker's Knife allots two wards to increase your team's vision, but the smite offers no additional effects.

You should start Broken Wings as this is Riven's main damaging ability. Ki Burst is second since the AOE stun is very useful for jungle camps and since Riven's Valor does not do damage. Take Valor third in order to mitigate some of the damage coming from the camps. Level Broken Wings first to increase your clear time and damage output during ganks. The reason you should level Valor second rather than Ki Burst is twofold: shortening the cooldown on Valor (by leveling it second) allows you to tank more damage while clearing and increases your mobility. This also happens to be the typical skill sequence for Riven top.

Early Game

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The whole game changed so I'll update this after some test games.


Mid/Late Game (On Par or Behind)

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Ganking

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Ideally, you would like to hit all of your abilities on the enemy laner. This ideal case is unlikely unless the enemy laner is oblivious or already committed to a fight with your laner. At the very least, you should land your third cast of Broken Wings and Ki Burst on them. Just know that you will do less damage to the enemy laner if you use your Broken Wings to chase them down. Also, while it is preferred to weave auto attacks between your abilities, you may not be able to if the fleeing enemy laner is faster than you are; in that event, simply spam Broken Wings to knock them up, stun them, and hope your laner has enough damage or crowd control to compensate. If you do not have many kills yet and you think there is even the slightest chance of getting a kill during a gank, do not hesitate to use Blade of the Exile. Finally, Riven has a very strong countergank due to her ability to duel two melee champions at once (by virtue of her AOE damage); counterganks are a great opportunity to pick up two kills.


General Tips

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- Weave auto-attacks between every ability.
- Cancel the auto-attack animation (by using your next ability just as the animation is finishing).
- Remember to spam Valor when it's up. It is very easy to forget about this ability because it is non-damaging.
- If you use Blade of the Exile, hold on to Wind Slash until you are sure you cannot kill them without it. Enemies will always try to juke Wind Slash with flash or a dash ability. Ignore this advice if you think you can save yourself or your laner by using Wind Slash early.

I'd like to give a special thanks to...

- You, the reader, for dedicating some of your time to perusing this guide.
- jhoijhoi and all those who helped to create the Karthus General Guide to Guide Making, which was incredibly useful to me during the writing of this guide.

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