Talk:Riven/@comment-4915885-20120401230906/@comment-4834593-20120403154343

She is much better as a Fighter, because of some simple things. A Carry must go for only damage, critical strikes, attack speed, and (sometimes) movement speed, slow and/or armor penetration, then attack everyone from a distance with 2 300 damage crits each second. The ONLY melee who can build like this, is Tryndamere, because his ultimate allows him to stay alive in the middle of the enemy team for five seconds without armor. All other melees need some armor, health, and/or magic resist to not die before they can deal their damage. Riven is one of those. And when playing Riven, make sure you don't buy items because of critical strike or attack speed. Her passive doesn't crit, her abilities scale with attack damage, not with attack speed or critical strike, and she can best use an ability in between each two basic attacks, which is why you don't often use attack speed. Your Q even resets the attack time.