Riven First Item?

Gandalf010812·6/4/2016, 6:01:10 AM·2 votes·3,114 views

Hi there,

I play a lot, really like her. But as I continue to learn about her and the game in general, I notice a lot of guides suggest building first. And while I can agree on that if I am facing a tanky person such as or or , I still find myself doing much better against other matchups starting with and then . It just brings so much more sustain to heal from and damage to burst people down.

I also noticed that some people suggest as the first item, but for some reason I tend to never build this item. My build usually ends up looking something like this: or sometimes a instead of the armor.

So what are your opinions?

4 Comments

TyroneWatermelon6/4/2016, 9:17:39 AM2 votes

Everything that has ad on it works with riven

Teémò6/4/2016, 6:22:26 AM1 votes

I actually really like to build bloodthirster as my first item on riven. It gives her a sustain, but also a Really useful shield and that to me is why people like playing her, Although 40-45% cdr is nice on riven You really only need 10% to leesh and or have 3 stacks of your passive before laning phase Otherwise you can't keep them without hitting something. p.s (start your Q's at 12 seconds tell monsters spawn to do so)

For mid though You can do wraith camp and take the 3 wraiths and you'l be able to hit level 2 pretty fast, it really depends who your fighting mid like you could go armor pen and shred a velkoz but a lulu your going to want the sustain .

I hope this helped you.

AlwaysByMySide6/4/2016, 9:41:48 AM1 votes

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Hi there,

I play a lot, really like her. But as I continue to learn about her and the game in general, I notice a lot of guides suggest building first. And while I can agree on that if I am facing a tanky person such as or or , I still find myself doing much better against other matchups starting with and then . It just brings so much more sustain to heal from and damage to burst people down.

I also noticed that some people suggest as the first item, but for some reason I tend to never build this item. My build usually ends up looking something like this: or sometimes a instead of the armor.

So what are your opinions?

Black Cleaver is well-regarded as a first item power spike on Riven because she scales better with CDR than most other champions, and BC has a lot of it while also having good stats and very attractive passives. It's also cheaper than Hydra.

Also, do you get 20% CDR from your runes or something? Because a Riven without 40% CDR is hardly a Riven at all, and your listed build only has 20% CDR from itemization.