Talk:Riven/@comment-10110705-20130727151341/@comment-4952847-20130728120321

Your build is pretty conventional from the game stats, so I will not comment on that. Your runes for Riven are flat AD, just from a point of preference I like armor penetration runes for solo top but the differences there are minor.

When I play Riven, my playstyle tends to be hit-and-run in large scale team fights. Riven's skill downtimes are short but she isn't durable enough to stay in a fight for more than a combo's duration.

When you engage, try to flank your enemies as much as possible and cut in from the sides so you can hit their squishies with a quick combo and make a quick escape. Usually I wouldn't stick around with the team and charge in with the tank because that way I'll just eat all the enemy spells and explode (I hate those 5v5 clumps where the 2 sides are poking each other but nothing is really happening). Think of engaging with Riven like ganking from the jungle: you stick around out of sight but close by, you wait till you see an opening in for a squishy target, and you instagib that target and make an exit... except you go back in for seconds and thirds after enemies stop chasing you.

Also ask yourself whether you are being focused as soon as you engage: if enemy spells are being used on you, chances are you shouldn't use Q to deal damage but use it to escape. One of the biggest assets of Riven is that she is able to engage and disengage really fluidly with her skill set. If you are being focused when you enter and you are a big enough threat to make enemies chase you for more than they should, your team can pick up an upper hand simply with you distracting the enemy team's output. Of course whether this works or not also depends on the enemy team comp but Riven is really not a character who stays for a whole team fight.

For the above reason I also pick up Ghost or Exhaust instead of Ignite (which I feel Ignite is overrated anyway, Riven already has an execution move and Ignite feels redundant, but again that's just me).

I also had a look at your match history and of the 3 matches with Riven I could see, 2 of them had quite strange team compositions... just know that I feel that if you are losing teamfights from having bad team comps then there isn't much you could do about it. Riven is a strong character but she cannot carry the whole team, and in the end it's teamwork that wins the game, not individual champion strength, so I can only say better luck with matchups and hopefully you find my wall of text useful.