Talk:Riven/@comment-26203093-20161023130523/@comment-4834593-20161121211500

Nope. While it may look epic (mostly in it's current state), it's actually not a good item. Firstly, it means you have to go 18 deep into the Resolve tree, which means you have to pass out on a lot of damage (which is mostly in the Ferocity and Cunning trees) in favor of tankyness, which doesn't line up with Riven well because of the other reason: Riven tends to build full damage or at least mostly damage, which means that she does not have a whole lot of health (which means CotC is weaker, as it scales primarily from your maximum health), nor does she have a whole lot of resistances (which scale multiplicatively with health; the more resistances you have, the more an additional point of health is worth, and the other way around), which means the shield is easily broken.

Just take thunderlord, and pick your engages to blow up the enemy backline as fast as you can.