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LoL Champion Build Guides: Riven
Riven The Exile
Find the best Riven build guides for League of Legends S11 Patch 11.15. The MOBAFire community works hard to keep their LoL builds and guides updated, and will help you craft the best Riven build for the S11 meta. Learn more about Riven's abilities, skins, or even ask your own questions to the community!
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[11.15] ✔️⚔️ PLAY RIVEN LIKE 1,000+LP MAINS!
[11.15] ✔️⚔️ PLAY RIVEN LIKE 1,000+LP MAINS!
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[11.15] Become A Riven God
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Educational Darky's HIGH ELO GUIDE to Riven! [11.15]
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[11.15] RTO's Challenger Riven Top Lane Guide
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[11.15] Drygur's Riven TOP Guide
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Super Tank Support Riven
Super Tank Support Riven
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Riven Divine Sunderer
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Try to use this Riven build
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[11.11] The Ultimate Riven Guide to Carry S11
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Dominate Toplane Riven [In-Depth] [11.4]
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(Ex-Dia)Riven Top 11.3 GUIDE [Matchups incl.] Still testing!
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LimitlessHavoc's Top Lane Riven
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[Season 11] Satoyo´s Riven Guide
[S11] Carry God Riven UPDATED
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[11.13] Lao's Riven - Master's Onetrick Guide
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Bronze Riven Main's Guide
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Season 11 Updated ! - Low Elo Riven Guide
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[Season 11] High Elo Riven Guide l Carry Every Game l
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Ex-Riven One Trick KR challenger riven GTT approved Guide
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Riven Ultimate Guide for Season 11
Riven Build & Runes
If you're looking for the best rune build for Riven we've got you covered. Below you can find the best items and runes to build for Riven, as determined by LeagueSpy's calculations of thousands of Plat+ League of Legends games. If you are already familiar with how to play Riven this is a great resource to quickly get a good rune selection for Patch 11.15. However, if you are a new Riven player we highly recommend reading through some of the guides above to learn why this build is strong on Riven!
* Each section of the build is rated independently of the others
Riven's Top Items
Riven's Runes
50%
Win Rate 5745 Games
- 1
- 2
- 3
Second Best
51%
Win Rate 4072 Games
Third Best
52%
Win Rate 2129 Games
Riven's Summoner Spells
51%
Win Rate 11733 Games
- 1
- 2
- 3
Riven's Starters
50%
Win Rate 23443 Games
- 1
- 2
- 3
Trinket
49%
Win Rate 35498 Games
- 1
- 2
- 3
Second Best
55%
Win Rate 6963 Games
Oracle Lens
Third Best
52%
Win Rate 5310 Games
Farsight Alteration
Don’t forgetto Buy Wards
Riven's Core Items
Boots
Riven's Luxury Items
Riven's Ability Order
69%
Win Rate 4213 Games
- 1
- 2
- 3
Runic Blade (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Second Best
69%
Win Rate 1199 Games
Runic Blade (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Third Best
69%
Win Rate 287 Games
Runic Blade (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Top Riven Players
Get match statisctics & builds Top Riven Players are using on LeagueSpy!
* Each section of the build is rated independently of the others
Riven's Top Items
Riven's Runes
65%
Win Rate 54 Games
- 1
- 2
- 3
Second Best
61%
Win Rate 89 Games
Third Best
58%
Win Rate 57 Games
Riven's Summoner Spells
51%
Win Rate 2747 Games
- 1
- 2
Riven's Starters
52%
Win Rate 3349 Games
- 1
- 2
- 3
Trinket
50%
Win Rate 2656 Games
- 1
- 2
- 3
Second Best
56%
Win Rate 649 Games
Oracle Lens
Third Best
54%
Win Rate 448 Games
Farsight Alteration
Don’t forgetto Buy Wards
Riven's Core Items
Boots
Riven's Luxury Items
Riven's Ability Order
74%
Win Rate 81 Games
- 1
- 2
- 3
Runic Blade (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Second Best
69%
Win Rate 577 Games
Runic Blade (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Third Best
69%
Win Rate 179 Games
Runic Blade (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Top Riven Players
Get match statisctics & builds Top Riven Players are using on LeagueSpy!
Riven Counters
Learn 's counters and discover matchups where they have an advantage! When you're starting a game of League of Legends you should always keep in mind if you'll be at an advantage or disadvantage against your opponent, so you can know whether to bully them or play safe. You can find detailed breakdowns of each matchup on CounterStats, and you can also check out some Riven guides to see how to build and play against other champions you may find yourself up against!
This counter data is for Riven Top in Plat+ games. The percent shown is the enemy champion's counter rating against Riven. Counter rating is our own statistic that factors in counter kills, overall kills, early lead ratio, comeback ratio, and win percent to give the whole picture of that champion's effectiveness as a counter pick.
Best Against Riven
Worst Against Riven
Riven Skins
Find Riven's skins and when they were last on sale. Never miss a sale for your favorite skin by using our Wish List feature! You can also find all Riven skins and chromas on Riven's skins page.
Wishlist
Our Wish List feature will send you notifications when your skins are on sale!Riven's Abilities
Runic Blade is affected by critical strike modifiers.
1st Use/2nd Use: Deals 15 / 35 / 55 / 75 / 95 (+0.8 per total attack damage) physical damage to a small area in front of her.
3rd Use: Jumps into the air and slams downward, causing a larger impact nova that deals the same damage and knocks nearby enemies up.
Questions About Riven
Latest Questions
can we talk about riven real quick?
Can we talk about riven and he general bustedness? i feel like not enough people understand that a champion who has 4 gap closers, 2 cc abilities and a constant stacking passive dealing damage per autos at level 3 is strong or overpowered, and yet...
I'm new
So, this is probably a dumb question but this is the first time I've played a game of this type and whenever I try to google my questions, I get answers that make zero sense to me lol So basically, I'm starting on Riven and I want to get good at...
cant cancel animation with riven
i always try to cancel animation with riven but i cant idk why like q+w i cant even cancel it once anyone can help me to know why i cant
carrying as riven
how do I carry a game as top, i'm tired of losing free games.
I don't deal damage. Help?
So, I've just started playing Riven. Watched a TON of videos on her combos etc.... building Cleaver, Hydra etc.. yet I deal so little damage. In the videos I watch, the players are dealing massive damage by level 10 and when I do it, i am...
Why is Inspiration good on riven?
Why is the Inspiration tree good on riven, i dont understand it, i play riven with domination tree and i enjoy it more, so i whant to know why is The Inspiration tree good on her :)
Riven build after aery nerf...
What build should I take on riven on this preseason after aerly nerf? I dont know what to do
Darius vs Riven
I have serious trouble against Riven top as Darius is there and tips and or strategies to defeat her? please let me know if there is, because she is the one champion i fear top
What is the best way to play against Riven?
What is the best way to play against Riven in toplane? How do you counter her?
Riven is hard as hell T_T
i really dont get how to play this champ, i searched few build and guides but these not really helped me to improve anything. Can someone recommend me a good guide for begginers in riven? i dont need to play her fully potential, i just want to...
Riven's wall jump
How do you wall jump? How do you time it? How do you practice it?
should i buy vayne or fiore or riven or fizz?
vayne or fiore or riven or fizz? i really dont know what to buy,i would like u guys to help me on thiz. thank you
The best build.
What is the best builds for the Riven, and WarWick ? becuase im new to this and i ant some tisp before starting ranked gaming. pleae help and if you do. thanks a lot :#
Why won't my guide save?
I've had my guide for a while, I had this problem a couple of months back, but it fixed itself when I took out some of the content and threw it all into one chapter with the normal guide set up. Now, the problem has reemerged and it makes it hard...
What is the opportune time to buy the new Last Whisper?
I've done a TON of math on this. It seems that there is a pretty accurate time of ~ lv 5 and they have 50 bonus armor. Then I have to factor in all my abilities for Riven and her passive and how much the bonus armor percentage will increase...
