Riven VS Darius
Probably the matchup I have most difficulty with. Suggestions for runes/masteries and general tactics? Thanks.
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you have a couple seconds everytime DArius uses his Q to fuq him up and run away
save valor for when he yanks you to him or when he's gonna Q you
same applies to Riven, you ahve a couple seconds to mess her up after her QQQ
I don't think Riven can really outperform Darius at any stage of the game. Maybe 1-3 if you can bait/shield properly. If youre low elo, its usually pretty easy to bait a Darius into wasting his pull without having to use your E. If you can do that, you have a window where you can dive into him for some quick damage and get out before he can pull again. Darius is a lot more naturally tanky than Riven though if I remember right, so if you cant get ahead early youll be in a bad way. Your best bet is to just ask for ganks and avoid as much of his damage as possible.
If he does pull you in though, you need to just dump all your damage into him quickly and get out. Something like E > W > QQQ or something along those lines.
Runes and masteries should just be your normal setup, I see no need to change them just for Darius. AD marks/quints, armor or health seals and cdr or mr glyphs.
This is a lane I have always tried to cheese. Sit in bush all in level 1 use ignite to force him out of lane, blow flash maybe get a kill. When he returns you have a very nice experience advantage and are in control from there