Talk:Riven/Strategy/@comment-71.10.23.226-20120511185414/@comment-70.251.75.60-20120520122719

Thats an awful build. Starting boots is fine but you need to pick up at least 2 dorans blade afterwards maybe even a third depending on who you are laning against. Rushing CDR boots and brutalizer is nice on paper because of the 25% cdr it gives you but doing so will make you extremely weak early game. Your build won't really kick in til about mid game or near the end of laning phase.

And those two BT you meantion, better to build one and a Last Whisper instead. If you opponent has any knowledge of Riven they will know to build armour, and no doublt more armour then a brutalizer can shred. Remember armour doesn't reduce damage pound for pound with AD (1 armour =/= 1 attack). Armour reduces damage by a percentage and shreding that percentage in your favor is a good thing.