Talk:Riven/@comment-4760419-20130919171604/@comment-5606883-20130924070659

The beauty of Ravenous Hydra is the fact that it synergizes with Riven's damage type: AoE. All of her damaging abilities are AoE, which is one reason why Riven is devastating in Teamfights, she can focus on the enemy carry while also damaging the rest of the enemy team in-directly. Autoattacks are part of Riven's combo, so making her AA an AoE damage only increases her team-fight presence, also the autoattack reset is very nice.

However, this is during team fights, which implies mid-to-late game status. So Riven will already have had the opprotunity to buy atleast 2 full items or something equivalent to that (ie: Bloodthirster, Merc Treads, Brutalizer, and Tiamat).


 * This item is basically a B.F. sword with an active and some HP regen if you are talking about early laning phase. There is no reason I can think of where you would want to rush this as your first buy. However, against certain lane-matchups this item is good after you start your inital build (like Brutalizer and boots). I'm talking about push-lanes.

Aka, Riven v.s. Yorick, Kayle, Talon, Vlad, ect. Basically, in matchups where you are against someone who likes to push, you don't want them to keep you stuck under your tower. Thats where Tiamat comes in, it allows Riven to clear waves without using her abilities, b/c if her abilities are on Cooldown to clear a wave, that gives the enemy a huge opening to attack without fear of her diving on them.

Tl:dr --> Its only good as an early item if you are against certain push lanes. Otherwise its better to buy a BF sword into BT or a LW early game. Then if you still want more damage, Ravenous Hydra is very good late game b/c of how it helps her do more AoE damage in team fights.