Talk:Riven/@comment-72.191.25.152-20110917161516/@comment-1973463-20110917172206

Naw son. With the right runes and starting item, her damage is good right away. defense is fine too. I'm often the tankiest and most damaging member of my team at lv 1 as Riven. and most mobile. Flat AD marks/quints and an AD starting item (aka Doran's Blade) gives her very nice damage immediately. see my comment a few posts down (it's long) for more details. Doran's blade and flat armor/MR seals/glyphs and defensive tree gives her 650 hp, 34 armor, and 51 MR at lv 1. And that 25 bonus AD that gives your shield a decent 65 hp mitigation at rank 1 once you get it. It's pretty nice, really.

ALSO, "except when using the ult" isn't much of a caveat. It lasts for 15 seconds and has a really short cooldown, about on par with the cooldown of Lux's famously low cooldown laser. At rank 3, you can even have it up more often than down with max CDR. Up for 15 seconds, down for 12.