Talk:Riven/@comment-4977390-20130225202841/@comment-4964269-20130226181207

I am not going to bother reading the top comments because after I saw someone saying " I built Warmogs/Randuins/whatever..." I just had to stop. Riven is a DPS assassin-like bruiser. She deals as much AD than a carry and brings more AoE to a teamfight than a typical AP midlaner could bring. The fact her shield scales off of damage gives you the fact that she benefits from AD, completey. Only time you should ever go tanky is if you are being focused on (ie GA is your best friend and Maw allows you to survive small skirmishes plus the AD per missing health is great on Riven) and even if you are being focused, you are either engaging without your tanky jungler or just have bad positioning.

If you look at BestRivenNA gameplay, he hardly goes for defense on Riven and as for me, I always play glass cannon Riven. At first when I played Riven, I started going defensive and survived my lanes. However, I realized that in teamfights, my damage was doing nothing, not even to carries. Items like Warmogs, Sunfires, or Randuins, they don't synergize well with anything in her kit. Always go pure AD and play Riven like an assassin, not a rambo-all in tank. You are Riven, not Pedobear.