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Choose Champion Build:
Spells:
Exhaust
Ghost
Ability Order
Runic Blade (PASSIVE)
Riven Passive Ability
Introduction to a Tanky AD Riven

This style of playing






This Quint allows you to get a few more abilities in during a fight and can be the difference on many occasions, may it be getting one more activation of [Broken Wings] in, or just allowing you to use valor more often and take less damage.

This will allow you to crit high, and trust me, when you do crit, your opponent WILL know about it when they see a 1/8th of their health drop.

To give you even more of an edge in the early phase of the game. Riven is infamous because of her early game damage, and with this, you can be quite certain you will score a kill in the pre-game fight.
Greater Seal of Vigor x4
This is to counter the recent nerf to Riven.

Its just good to be able to get Rivens passive, [Runic blade], in a lot quicker. Also to be able to get your auto attacks in between [Broken Wings] quicker. (I will go into that further on in the guide)
Most people seem to max a particular skill on
Riven and then spam the **** out of it hoping it will kill someone. I see this happen more often with
Broken Wings than any other because it seems to do more damage than the others because of how many uses you get.
Ki Burst is the most dangerous ability early game and late game however, because when you get high enough AD, you will end up doing 300 damage WITH a stun every 7 seconds.
Valor is an amazing skill, it's a gap closer, with a shield!! Late game it allows you to survive 2 blasts from a turret making towerdiving even easier.
However
Broken Wings is the skill you want to put your first point into. Early game it gives you high maneuverability, extra damage, a short stun, and makes you hard to target with skillshots. Coupled with
Exhaust, you will usually get a kill. This is the ideal pre-game skill for
Riven, but once you level, put a point in
Ki Burst.
Ki Burst will be your main gold generator, while still being a very good harass skill when you jump in with
Broken Wings.
Put your third point into
Valor. By now you will be beginning to harass the enemy with
Broken Wings and
Ki Burst,
Valor serves as a quick escape method while giving you a shield that absorbs the minion fire you are sure to get while running away.




However






Put your third point into




Riven is a champ who LOVES cooldown reduction items and AD HP hybrid items (e.g The Brutaliser,
Frozen Mallet)
For starting items you want a
Doran's Blade. This adds lifesteal which gives you good sustain in lane, and makes you look weaker than you really are until your opponent realizes that you're drinkin his blood. It is an awesome item for Riven with it giving HP and AD as well. On your first recall you should be able to buy a
The Brutalizer or
Phage. Choose which one is more suited to what champs you are fighting in your lane. Make sure that you buy both items, one after the other.
Squishy champs =
Phage, to tank their generally high burst and harass.
Tanky champs =
The Brutalizer, for armor penetration and cooldown reduction to get more damage in with your abilities.
You should be building up to a [Frozen Mallet] and a
Black Cleaver. The item choice here is entirely up to you, depending on whether you need some extra maneuverability (
Ionian Boots of Lucidity), or some extra punch (
Black Cleaver). The cooldown reduction and movement speed on the boots will let you catch up to enemies or run away easier while getting more abilities in. The
Black Cleaver will deal more damage in a shorter time period and is more effective against slower teams.
By now you should have a
Doran's Blade,
The Brutalizer,
Frozen Mallet, and a
Black Cleaver or
Ionian Boots of Lucidity. After buying these items you should be upgrading your Brutalizer to a
Youmuu's Ghostblade, and purchasing an
Atma's Impaler for the extra damage and crit chance. After you have these items, sell your
Doran's Blade, and buy a
Sunfire Aegis.
In the end you should have an extremely durable champion who can initiate a fight and keep going at it for a long time while still putting out a heap of damage. You should be critting in the 500 area and be able to take on two squishies at once. Your enemies will be fearing your extremely high damage and survivability while they limp back to their base.
If you are facing champions such as
Tryndamere,
Shaco, AD
Teemo,
Twitch, those annoying AS/AD
Sions, or even
Ashe and
Renekton, you could choose to switch out your
Atma's Impaler or
Sunfire Aegis for
Thornmail. You will be surprised to find out how much damage you are reflecting back to your enemies and decreasing the damage coming towards you.
When the enemy team is predominantly magic, get a
Guardian Angel, its effect also allows you to come back to life after dieing every 5 minutes, so when another champ just manages to beat you,
Ki Burst them, then follow up with
Valor and
Broken Wings. If they run away before you come back to life, use
Ghost to catch up to them.

Early Game
For starting items you want a



Squishy champs =

Tanky champs =

Mid Game
You should be building up to a [Frozen Mallet] and a




Late Game
By now you should have a









Summary of Items
In the end you should have an extremely durable champion who can initiate a fight and keep going at it for a long time while still putting out a heap of damage. You should be critting in the 500 area and be able to take on two squishies at once. Your enemies will be fearing your extremely high damage and survivability while they limp back to their base.
If you are facing champions such as










When the enemy team is predominantly magic, get a





The Masteries that have been selected are designed to give you high early game damage, while still being able to take a fair amount of a bashing.
Deadliness
and
Lethality, will give you that extra damage you need on your crits, while
Brute Force
and
Sunder
increase your flat damage and give you just that little bit extra of an edge on enemy tanks.
Hardiness
, Veterans Scars, and
Durability
give you that little bit more tankiness early game to push through those annoying squishies.






Ghost
Because in this guide, we haven't included boots into the item choices, you will need a more reliable and quicker gap closer that is also effective as an escape method, so

Usually when you come to gank a lane, you would target the enemy with exhaust, but if its on cooldown, ghost can be just as effective because of



When escaping from a fight with

Exhaust
This is an extremely useful spell and can get you out of trouble the same way ghost can but also be extremely useful against high damage enemies and slowing down enemies who are running away.
When facing up against opponents like



While escaping with








An effective means of escaping with this spell is to






Because






Getting a Kill in Lane (lvl 1-12)








NOTE: If their health is high enough that you can see that without

Harass Strategy (lvl 3-15)
Use



Last Hitting (lvl 1-10)
Try and keep all enemy minions around the same hp (except siege minions). When they are all low enough in hp, use


Playing Defensively (all lvl's)
Stay relatively close to your turret. You don't have to completely hug it otherwise it will gradually take damage. Use



Team Fights (lvl 6-18)
As soon as a proper team fight starts (3v3 or higher), activate





If you are losing the fight activate



YET TO PUT MORE STRATEGIES AND TRICKS IN. I WILL KEEP UPDATING THIS PART FREQUENTLY.
I hope everyone enjoyed my guide to a tanky AD
Riven, and may all your games be good ones :D
This guide was made by BlaZe xRAPTORx.
This guide is still only partly done and will be much better in the near future.
If this guide helped you in any way please vote+1, it would be much appreciated.
If anyone has had any good scores following this guide please send them to me
@ rhino.29@hotmail.com
If any other
Riven lovers would like to add any good tricks or strategies please post them in a comment below :) I will be sure to add them to the list and give you credit for them.
Credits:
JhoiJhoi for teaching me how to code :D
BlaZe GoBBiES for getting me into LoL

This guide was made by BlaZe xRAPTORx.
This guide is still only partly done and will be much better in the near future.
If this guide helped you in any way please vote+1, it would be much appreciated.
If anyone has had any good scores following this guide please send them to me
@ rhino.29@hotmail.com
If any other

Credits:
JhoiJhoi for teaching me how to code :D
BlaZe GoBBiES for getting me into LoL
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