Re: League of Legends: Builds, Tips, and Tricks
How you should build your Riven all comes down to the in-game champions, if you have a support that can aid you with an Aegis and Zeke's go for more AD and CDR, you could even opt to take the Zeke's for yourself to get the 15% CDR from that if you don't want to make a Lucidity because their team have good CC, if they have good stuns and snares you should definitely get a Mercury. If they have a lot more damage potential then make Atma's/Malmortius, alternatively you may even go for a Grez's Lantern for AD and Armor, it's weaker than Atma but cheaper and provides an active reveal should you fight anyone with stealth. Can't kill them because they have a strong escape? Make Glacial Mallet. Trinity Force is fairly kickass on Riven despite its expensive cost, the AP and Mana boost may be wasted on Riven but the extra movement speed, crit, AS and HP helps greatly. You can start off with the Phage and later decide if you need the reliable slow from Mallet or the extra burst from TF by making an autoattack between each Q. As for penetration to boost your damage potential, Van Damm's is great due to the CDR, Vamp and great Penetration against squishy AD carries, but if anyone in their team starts stacking well over 100 armor to reduce the damage I suggest picking up a Last Whisper unless another AS-based champ on your team makes a Black Cleaver, if they still stack 200+ armor I'd still make a Whisper though. With low enough cooldowns and okay AD your E should be powerful enough to soak up a lot of damage with frequent usage (40% CDR gives it 3.6s CD on rank 5 with each shield lasting up to 2.5s), remember that the shield greatly benefits from additional resists. This is purely from my own experience from seeing other people play Riven and my own theorizing though and nothing like myself having played her a lot, but really, co-op with your teammates, shut down their CC if squishy enough or dash through to rape their carry.
Personally I've until recently been whoring the shit out of Treeline with Leona and my friend playing Kayle/Renekton the past week, though after losing 5 games in a row because for some reason pre-made teams with 1600+ ELO in ranked ladders can somehow end up in ELO hell against casual pubbers... we went back to Rift again. <.<
