Talk:Riven/@comment-4834593-20150107184527/@comment-4834593-20150109213010

I indeed always take Hydra in between, mostly for the life steal. In the very few games where I back with more than 1550 gold when I only have a Bruta + Vamp scepter (or less) I go Bloodthirster instead.

Ghostblade + IE isn't really bad, except that you have to take out Hydra (AoE dmg + another 1.0 AD scaling ability), Bloodthirster (amazing life steal, mostly when critting), Last Whisper (only way to kill anything that has armor), Boots (15% cdr) or GA (don't need to explain, I hope) to fit Ghostblade in. It's just that there are 5 better options.

And indeed you don't make too much use of the active.