Talk:Riven/@comment-217.65.192.88-20130301161805/@comment-2124153-20130305191726

Zephyr has two stats you should not care about: MS and AS. Riven always wants to be pushing buttons (if you are using an ability you are not autoattacking), and Broken Wings has an attack timer reset, so you ought not to be even thinking about AS in her build. MS is useful, but less so for Riven than for others, since it doesn't improve her dashing speed at all. So you're basically paying 2850g for 20 AD, 10% CDR, tenacity, and MS/AS that are sub-optimal. Never mind that you have to sit on a Stinger (which is complete garbage on Riven) while you save up the 1200g for the combine.

Zephyr is just not good on her. You're buying it for the tenacity, I get it, but Merc's is better for the job, and so is the Defense tree, and so is Cleanse. Use one (or a couple) of those instead. Drop your MR Glyphs for CDR Glyphs if you are using Merc's, that takes some of the sting away from losing Ionian.

Frozen Mallet is the same thing. Riven doesn't have problems with sticking to people, so why overpay for the slow? You can get AD or health more efficiently elsewhere. A Giant's Belt costs 1000g for 380 health, and builds into three decent items. You could also spend 2150g on an Aegis, which helps your team, makes your Valor shield stronger because of Armor/MR), and has a little bit of health and HP/5 on it. There are no shortage of good AD sources from items on Riven; beating 20 AD is not hard.

See ShatteredBow's post for lane starts, Those are all good.