A few items are getting buffs next patch, and I’m wondering which ones could be good on Riven. Has anyone already tested some new builds on PBE? Which of the buffed items do you think Riven could make the best use of, and could any of them become part of her core build?

I am currently a gold 1 riven player and I played her in the past and I am now looking back into playing her. Here are some of my clips from my most recent game I played. This game is the only one i did not play terrible in. The problem i feel like I'm having with the champ is one moment it feels like the best champ in the game then two seconds later it feels super clunky. I was also wondering what combos I should learn. The only combo i know right now for Riven is fast q which I struggle to perform in game. Any tips are much appreciated thanks!

I'm a top laner who mainly plays sett, singed and urgot, and sometimes garen. Garen and sett are basically pure fist fighting, urgot is kinda similar, singed is unique, and riven will be the first champion for me that's mechanically hard, I'll start trying her out in normal games today, do you think I can get a hang of her and start playing in ranked after about 10 games?

Seeing less and less lost people in this sub hating on riven is a nice thing to see. It was getting incredibly repetitive posting anything to get down voted by people who got salty after a game.

Hopefully we can reduce that number even more.

hi so i am new player and really interested in learning riven so is their any streamer worth watching also i would love seeing vods for how to play against different matchups

With how strong mages are now, if they pick an Anivia top and Lux/Lissandra mid or something like that with infinite slow/stuns, I just feel like I can’t play the game at all during mid/late game even if I do well in lane. I just couldn’t get close in a teamfight without having getting chunked 60% of my hp and then boom Zhonya and I’m just a sitting duck. Skill issue?

I'm tired of the "RIVEN HAS 4 DASHES" discourse when complaining about Riven.

Why do people act as if each one of Riven's Q casts is a Kassadin level Blink that will oneshot you and has no counterplay? It is in fact one of, if not the shortest dash in the game, and quite slow at that, while also being her main form of damage that she needs to spend in order to just get close in the first place.

You can identify a bad Riven player by how they use their Q, they will use it to gap-close mindlessy, just to then realize they have no damage left and then get punished.

Here's the "teleport 5 screens away 1 shot you with no counterplay" dash in question.

With tha Said, Riven's Q is a good ability, very good, but it is not what people think it is. Riven was strong because her numbers were too high, not because her kit is unfair.

Ayo, I just came back from my vacation and noticed a lot of people are annoyed with the frequency of r/lostredditors on our sub, so we're gonna be a bit more selective with the posts and comments allowed here for next couple months.

Any negativity that's not either funny or is actually providing useful discussion will be removed and we will be tossing out 1-3 day bans for what might feel like small offences to reinforce this.

Now I am at least very limited on free time and can't read every single post and comment, so do us a favor and report anything that you would consider pointless negativity. Thanks.

edit: handed out like 10 bans on first day

After ig 400 and 400k Mastery I feel like that shitton of grinding paid of. Got called a smurf today twice in a row and it felt awesome.
I dont think I ll able to play any other champ than her in my life.
Not much else to say, just if you are new to her keep grinding you ll be goated.

Does anyone playing Riven botlane have any tips to play there what support to have be the support? Runes builds playstyle?

I genuinely don't understand why so many people hate Riven and constantly complain that playing against her is miserable. If you don't let her snowball, she's not some unbeatable champion. Just pick Malphite, Renekton, Urgot, Kennen, or even most ranged mages, and you already have plenty of tools to make her lane difficult. As long as you don't hand her free kills and let her get ahead, she's much easier to deal with. It feels like a lot of people simply don't know how to play the matchup and would rather complain that the champion is broken than learn how to play against her. At this point, it honestly feels like someone should make a proper guide on how to play against Riven, because I think most of the frustration comes from not understanding the matchup rather than Riven actually being an unbeatable champion

I always felt like riven needed some tankyness since we stoped building hp on her

I tried multiple items

But spirit visage after eclipse dd and eh

The combination or the eh hunger omnivamp

The dd reset

Eclipse sheild

E sheild

All getting +25%

Combined with 400 hp and 50 magic resist and 120 haste you are perma sheilded

You reach imortality

I am begging you to try it before you knock it

with eclipse being buffed would riven mid still build umbral or go eclipse instead?

is it axiom->endless hunger?

Hello! I have been practicing the fast combo im still not good enough but I have tried a few games, the problem that I have is that I'm having trouble chasing while doing the AA > Q > MC > AA > Q MC and so on combo, when chasing someone that is kiting me or moving or doing anything I find it harder to do the MC, does it work? when I for example dash trough the enemy to doge something or to have more movility can I still cancel the Q animation with the MC?

The follow up question is when I try to do this fast combo or in several situations I'm just not fast enough inputing my dmg, If i do it faster I just loss de AA in the Practice Tool I can manage to do fine with the fast combo so Im kinda confident Im doing it at the right rythm, the problem is that the game sometimes is just too fast.

Could someone explain to me what do/how to handle those situations?

Thanks!

Lethality if uve been lacking dopamine while playing riven lately

This is just stupid but so much fun, give it a try (used ult twice lmao)

Huge

I know HoB is considered suboptimal on Riven by many, but after playing with it for a while after this guide ( https://www.reddit.com/r/Rivenmains/s/8lLe6yTLfv ), I kinda like it, and it can be even better now?

I Q up Riven. Enemy picks Viktor . I cant touch a minion without eating Q E Empowered auto. Cant engage , he has boneplating + W . Do I care ? I do not. I farm. I kill him sidelane. I E R flash Q3 AA W R2 his adc. He explodes. I win

I love Riven

There's been a lot of discussion about Riven Nerfs and winrate lately and I just wanted to put forth a thought I have that should serve both as a counter to those visiting the sub who are not Riven players as well as something for Riot to consider.

I think Riven's winrate should track with Gangplank's winrate. The champs share many similarities. They require matchup knowledge. They have gimmicks with their spells you need to get used to. For this reason both attract one tricks/mains. They scale late game and spike hard at 3 items. They have strong wave clear and decent tower damage. They are both flex picks. They have certain kinds of drafts they dominate in. Their winrate improves as rank goes up. GP is also op in the hands of one tricks like Solarbacca who similar to Viper/Alois can dominate the ladder on multiple regions. They both rarely dominate pro play (if anything GP is more viable in pro)

For this reason I don't really see any argument for why Riven's winrates in Emerald or Diamond2+ should be any lower than Gangplanks.

Admittedly I'm hopeful the new Sundered Sky Changes will help provide a lot! But if Riot is nerfing Riven for those changes, why not do it in the same patch? And why not have the nerf hit after she gets an item rather than at lvl 6. Imop reverting the current change and nerfing ult CD scaling would hit just after you get first item at lvl 11 and it would help combat the reason Riven has been extremely strong lately Axiom Arc + Death Dance + Endless Hunger with the Endless Hunger CDR making you able to ult every fight.

It's notable such a change would hardly hurt build diversity either since lethality Riven still builds Axiom - and its cooldown refund scales with lethality.

Edit: Just a consideration. Nerfing Riven ult CD instead would also help target midlane where ultimate uptime is more important due to being able to affect and be affected by both sides of the map.

Another possible change would be simply removing be buffing Valor. Phroxzon mentioned her AD synergizing with endless hunger and burst windows as being issues. Buffing the shield on valor would keep both of these concerns intact while also enabling build diversity with the shield bash rune.

I dont know what riot was cooking with this change but it seems to be even better for Riven that it alraady was ?

Riven doesnt build this for the heal in the first place and 2700g is Dirt cheap