Talk:Riven/@comment-24823977-20141002115412/@comment-4834593-20141002202442

Damage. Cooldown reduction. Damage. Guardian Angel. Damage.

Basically.

Your standard build shoud be Brutalizer -> Big life steal item (Hydra or Bloodthirster, both have their pros and cons) -> cdr boots -> Last Whisper + Guardian Angel (depends on how fed you are (not wheter you are fed, but how fed you are. If you're not fed, that means you haven't practised Riven enough yet) and how much you get focused) -> other big life steal item -> sell Brutalizer for Infinity Edge + blue pot.

Make sure to grab 5% cdr from masteries and cdr from runes in that way that you grab 10% at level 18 (how much flat and scaling on which runes is up to you, though I use 6x flat and 3x scaling on my glyphs).

Other items that can work are Youmuu's Ghostblade, Black Cleaver, Mercury Threads (you do lack a bit of cdr if you do this though), Maw of Malmortius and Blade of the Ruined King (edge case; there's been only one time for me where it was worth it, and that was a very long game when my GA was on cooldown and I needed more life steal (had like 39% after that buy) to survive. Also synergized well with the AD and crit I already had. Normally it's simply too little AD to be worth it though).

Abilities are R>Q>E>W, or R>Q>W>E if you're really freaking agressive (but I'm a very agressive player already and I don't even do it).

Health items, as a rule of thumb, are not worth it.