Talk:Riven/Strategy/@comment-155.69.203.1-20120103123919/@comment-1994689-20120111054954

Trinity is BAD for Riven. Its just too much money for the passive. Yes you do get a lot of other stats but the mana and ability power is wasted. Also attack speed and crit aren't the most ideal buys because she has to miss out on some auto-attacks to use her abilities, the money spent there is better put towards AD which will make her abilities and her passive stronger. The way I think of it is: You have less time to auto-attack so it's best to make attacks you make count. But if you really think about it its obvious why their bad:

A few big damage auto-attacks =  A thousand poke auto-attacks BUT Big Damage spells =/= Small damage spells.

Granted the sheen and trinity passives synergise great with riven's passive and short cooldowns but they have a two second cooldown which means if you want to get the most out of it you will have to delay your abilities. Also it works off riven's BASE damage meaning it won't scale like Riven's passive (which will you have anyway). AND the damage on your abilities won't be as great nor will you be as tanky, as if you had spent that 4k gold somewhere else