Talk:Riven/@comment-83.5.223.254-20130109202649/@comment-5.83.71.124-20130113165026

She can be played as an AD assassin, which imo kinda sucks given that she can't make full use of Trinity (Even when she has the innate, yes), or she can be played as a tanky caster, which can stand in teamfights nicely longer. Some will say that you only need AD to be tanky, but the shield does not only scale with AD. I mean, yeah, the skill tooltip says that it has a 1.00 AD ratio, but if you have better defenses, the shield will last longer, thus being tankier.

It's just a matter of taste, really. Go AD assassin and both burst and be bursted, or go tanky caster, take a bit longer to kill, but be less killable. The tanky caster fits better my playstyle, but, per example, AD assassin fits better Leyrann's style (Given what he has always said).