Talk:Riven/@comment-9775822-20151020040501/@comment-5955640-20151024052445

Want to know the difference between building CDR on anyone and building CDR on Riven? Most champs. All champs. Have a pecking order of items to buy to optimize themselves regardless of who they are facing. Their best items which is based purely on what their kit demands from them. Usually it's a weakness of some sort. I lack health but I do health scaling damage so let me buy health and AP or even pen.

I have natural critical damage but my AS and AD is low so let me buy and Infinity Edge and a Phantom Dancer and see how I get going.

I spam spells all day but I run out of mana so I need to buy some AP or AD and then a ton of mana and then CDR.

Riven doesn't have alternate scaling paths. Her shield scales off of AD which she always builds.

In fact all of her spells scale alarmingly well from pure bonus AD making the best possible thing she can buy being only raw damage. She has no mana. She has no health costs. She doesn't even use up energy. The only thing that keeps her from creating an endless chain of spell casts which charge her passive for even more bonus attack damage is cooldown.

So Riven only has to buy two things. Raw Attack Damage and cooldown and the returns is astronomical.

It only falls off when she can't buy AD but like I said she's only buying AD and CDR so it's only a matter of kills and time before her kit is rounded off by a few items and it's off to sweep a team fight with your ult.

I actually agree and think that Darius getting the reset on his ult is wrong. He had it before and it was deemed pretty unfair for him to sweep an entire team. They forced mana on his build just so he couldn't do that normally.

But Riven isn't like Darius. Darius had mana to hold him back. Darius has to tank he has to buy offensive and defensive items and he still has to worry about running out of mana if he doesn't return to base or buy Frozen Heart after awhile.

Once Riven gets Black Cleaver, Ravenous Hydra, Ionian boots, and Ghostblade she'll never need a reason to fall back to base for any real reason.

Riven is getting the Lux treatment. If all you do is buy damage and max CDR. You need your CD to be longer.