Talk:Riven/@comment-91.17.139.117-20110925185817/@comment-99.35.22.95-20110926023257

One of the devs actually mentioned how riven was designed so that sheen would be a bad item, since it's such a good item on nearly every hero. With her passive you can just stack more AD for an equivalent sheen effect, plus the scaling with her abilities; the ap and mana are completely wasted.

That said... trinity force is still a rediculous item. In terms of raw stats it just gives so much, the sheen effect isn't bad on riven, and the slow is worth a lot. Getting TF as a 5th or 6th item is probably not a terrible idea.

Getting both is undeniably stupid though.