Talk:Riven/@comment-71.215.199.203-20130214165025/@comment-2124153-20130214170121

Hydra is OK on Riven, but strictly inferior to Bloodthirster (which gives more AD/lifesteal for the price). The largest issue with it, is that Riven doesn't want to be AOE'ing the enemy team, she wants to be blowing up squishies, leveraging her crazy AD ratios as much as possible. It might work on a more tanky Riven build, but these are generally suboptimal for her, since (unlike Renekton, for example), she doesn't have any support in her kit for such a thing.

One nice benefit though, is that using the active on Hydra gives you a stack of Runic Blade, for some reason.