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Choose Champion Build:
Spells:
Exhaust
Ghost
Ability Order
Runic Blade (PASSIVE)
Riven Passive Ability
Why Riven?
- Low Cooldowns / Spammable Ablities
- Consistent damage with attack speed
- Very hard to chase down
- Two disruptions
- Good farmer with


- Chases down enemies like a boss with exhaust and

This guide focuses on mid-late game power for Riven, while keeping her slightly tankier to improve her survivability.
A standard 21/0/9 mastery set for Riven.
These masteries are aimed towards allowing Riven to gain money and experience as fast as possible, with low-ish cooldowns and large amounts of critical hits.
For Tanky Dps Riven:
Yes, it's a strange 1/21/8 Mastery set.
I aimed to get tankier, while still reaching the attack speed bonus with Ardor.
The lack of early game damage is accounted for by only using
Greater Mark of Scaling Attack Damage and
Greater Quintessence of Scaling Attack Damage.
These masteries are aimed towards allowing Riven to gain money and experience as fast as possible, with low-ish cooldowns and large amounts of critical hits.
For Tanky Dps Riven:
Yes, it's a strange 1/21/8 Mastery set.
I aimed to get tankier, while still reaching the attack speed bonus with Ardor.
The lack of early game damage is accounted for by only using


Greater Mark of Desolation
Greater Mark of Scaling Attack Damage
- Any of these two are good, one giving armor penetration, the other giving more attack damage. I personally prefer the "Greater Mark of Might" better because "Youmuu's Ghostblade" and "The Black Cleaver" give a lot of armour penetration. Also, this guide focuses less on the laning phase, so the extra damage would help a lot.
Greater Seal of Armor
- Gives you armor to be slightly tankier, as Riven does not have a high amount of base armor.
Greater Glyph of Cooldown Reduction
Greater Glyph of Magic Resist
- I personally use the
Greater Glyph of Magic Resist to be tankier in lane, but
Greater Glyph of Cooldown Reduction is a good choice as well for the lowered cooldowns.
Greater Quintessence of Desolation
Greater Quintessence of Scaling Attack Damage
- Same reason as the marks. I would definitely get either only Might Runes, or only Desolation Runes, not a bit of both.

- Any of these two are good, one giving armor penetration, the other giving more attack damage. I personally prefer the "Greater Mark of Might" better because "Youmuu's Ghostblade" and "The Black Cleaver" give a lot of armour penetration. Also, this guide focuses less on the laning phase, so the extra damage would help a lot.

- Gives you armor to be slightly tankier, as Riven does not have a high amount of base armor.


- I personally use the


Greater Quintessence of Desolation

- Same reason as the marks. I would definitely get either only Might Runes, or only Desolation Runes, not a bit of both.

- Riven does have two crowd control abilities,




- It is very easy to outrun Riven, as I found out when playing with





Separated into three separate Area Of Effect attacks, this ability has many, many uses.
1. Disrupting entire enemy teams with the knock up (third attack).
2. Disrupting channeling ultimates, such as


3. Escaping at high speeds, as the attacks dash a short distance.
4. Chasing down enemies with the same function as in number 3
5. Dodging skillshots such as


Does a small Area of Effect stun, unfortunately with a very, very short range.
1. Disrupting enemy combos, such as


2. Disrupting channeling ultimates, such as


3. Can stun enemies during


A short ranged dash that provides a small shield. Note: Can not dash over walls.
1. Low cooldown means it can save you from Damage over times, such as red buff or

2. Used for chasing.
3. Used for dodging skillshots.
4. Used for escaping.

Can be used during the start of a fight, or the end of a fight.
1. Used to pick off fleeing, low-health enemies, with Wind Slash, which does more damage the less health they have.
2. Provides a large damage boost to increase the effectiveness of your abilities and auto attacks.
3. Increases the range of all three other abilities, as well as your auto attack.
4. Don't need to dive enemies (e.g. 100 health


A passive which functions in a similar fasion to that of

- Every time you cast an ability, you get a charge on

- Your next attack will deal bonus damage.
- Maximum of three stacks.
- Used most effectively like this: ability, auto attack, ability, auto attack.
- Other combination: Ability, ability, ability, auto attack, auto attack, auto attack.
In this section I will mainly talk about the core build items, and will not go into depth for each and every buy.
Doran's Blade
- My personal favorite starter item for Riven. Really helps you do more damage in lane and grab those extra first kills. Gives health, lifesteal, and also damage.
Mercury's Treads
- With this item, Riven is basically uncatchable, and unstoppable. Singed slows? No worries. Just use
Broken Wings and
Valor to get out.
Frozen Mallet? No worries either. Just repeat. The slows will be so insignificant that you will escape a lot of enemies.
Black Cleaver
- As shown by Phreak, this weapon is a god on Riven, especially because of
Broken Wings. It also gives you some attack speed to finish off opponents as well as some damage. The armor penetration given here is also a treat.
Youmuu's Ghostblade
- The problem with AD burst champions is that, once the burst is over, they have no damage. Some attack speed along with critical hits will definitely help out. Also, this weapon provides armor penetration as well as some cooldown reduction, which is definitely great with Riven.
Black Cleaver
- As shown by Phreak, this weapon is a god on Riven, especially because of
Broken Wings. It also gives you some attack speed to finish off opponents as well as some damage. We grab a Vampiric Sceptre before this in order to make sure we can stay around for longer before returning back to base.
Frozen Mallet
- Very important on Riven in my opinion. The slows mean that no champion will ever escape you, and the extra health will definitely help you get out of sticky situations.
Bloodthirster
- Even more damage for those critical hits and even more lifesteal alongside it. Generally a good item for Riven.
Infinity Edge
- All AD burst champions definitely need this, especially when coupled with a
Phantom Dancer. Just is a brilliant finisher item to make you indestructible.
Optional:
Guardian Angel
- If you are dieing too much, or your team is full of squishies, make sure you pick up one of these to ensure your survivability increases.
Phantom Dancer
- If you grab this item I would suggest grabbing
Infinity Edge and
Frozen Mallet sooner, as they work extremely well together with this weapon.

- My personal favorite starter item for Riven. Really helps you do more damage in lane and grab those extra first kills. Gives health, lifesteal, and also damage.

- With this item, Riven is basically uncatchable, and unstoppable. Singed slows? No worries. Just use




- As shown by Phreak, this weapon is a god on Riven, especially because of


- The problem with AD burst champions is that, once the burst is over, they have no damage. Some attack speed along with critical hits will definitely help out. Also, this weapon provides armor penetration as well as some cooldown reduction, which is definitely great with Riven.

- As shown by Phreak, this weapon is a god on Riven, especially because of


- Very important on Riven in my opinion. The slows mean that no champion will ever escape you, and the extra health will definitely help you get out of sticky situations.

- Even more damage for those critical hits and even more lifesteal alongside it. Generally a good item for Riven.

- All AD burst champions definitely need this, especially when coupled with a

Optional:

- If you are dieing too much, or your team is full of squishies, make sure you pick up one of these to ensure your survivability increases.

- If you grab this item I would suggest grabbing


I won't be explaining the items that I've talked about above, so I will only talk about the new additions.
Trinity Force
- Works well along with Riven's spammable abilites and
Runic Blade, but after testing it I realised that you don't have enough consistent early game damage (your abilities at least). That's why I decided that I should grab
Doran's Blade first and use only
Greater Mark of Scaling Attack Damage and
Greater Quintessence of Scaling Attack Damage. Also, when comboing with
Broken Wings, the second usage of the ability doesn't proc
Sheen, so be warned.
Warmog's Armor
- Just to go even tankier to last longer in team fights, and to prepare for
Atma's Impaler. The farm should be achieved quickly as Riven is a great farmer with her abilities.
Atma's Impaler
- Works wonders with the health from
Warmog's Armor and
Trinity Force. Gives about 80 bonus damage, along with some crit chance and armor.
Black Cleaver
- I really find this item standard for Riven, since the attack speed and armor penetration is extremely useful for her. The attack speed works well in conjunction with
Trinity Force in particular. After grabbing this item you should be near unstoppable.
Zeke's Harbinger
- The only thing we're lacking now is lifesteal, so this item is a great finisher. The aura reduces armor of enemy champions, and gives allies (and yourself) 20% lifesteal, 30 health regen, and 20% attack speed! It gives Riven everything she needs and helps your allies as well!

- Works well along with Riven's spammable abilites and







- Just to go even tankier to last longer in team fights, and to prepare for


- Works wonders with the health from



- I really find this item standard for Riven, since the attack speed and armor penetration is extremely useful for her. The attack speed works well in conjunction with


- The only thing we're lacking now is lifesteal, so this item is a great finisher. The aura reduces armor of enemy champions, and gives allies (and yourself) 20% lifesteal, 30 health regen, and 20% attack speed! It gives Riven everything she needs and helps your allies as well!
- You can use yourself as bait for your team, as you are most likely to appear squishy, yet you are very hard to chase down.
- A well timed
Broken Wingscombo during a team fight can help your team by giving them a few more seconds to attack.
- Don't only use
Blade of the Exile to kill steal. Use it in team fights when their whole team is in range for maximum effectiveness. Try to hit them when they're below half health.
- A well timed

- Don't only use

16. Sept
- Replaced
Phantom Dancer with
Youmuu's Ghostblade
- Changed item buy sequence
- Fixed skill sequence
- Added Tanky Dps Riven
15. Sept
- Created build :D
- Replaced


- Changed item buy sequence
- Fixed skill sequence
- Added Tanky Dps Riven
15. Sept
- Created build :D
Early
Black Cleaver (this build)
- 5/5/10 (200 creep score by 20 minutes allowed me to earn enough money for items)
- 9/7/17
Early
Trinity Force but not tanky.
- 1/9/4
- 4/1/8
- 7/8/3

- 5/5/10 (200 creep score by 20 minutes allowed me to earn enough money for items)
- 9/7/17
Early

- 1/9/4
- 4/1/8
- 7/8/3
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