Talk:Riven/@comment-4952847-20120409165719/@comment-62.226.42.165-20120422115703

yo there :)

I play Riven as a jungler more often than as toplaner (in fact i don't really like going top as her, for that I have Renekton)

What item do you start with? since the jungle revamp I take vamp scepter and start wolves, clearing small camps, while some times taking our blue for a fast lv2 gank. Also, to counter her early weakness (She is perfectly fine from lv 3 and her full combo on imo, you just need to space out the skills for maximum effectiveness of dmgbonus AND dmgreduction) I tend to start enemy red while also taking the enemy wraiths as they are a guaranteed "auto"-clear with 1 combo of broken wings.

with spacing out for reduction I mean (from lv 3 on) dashing in, using wings 2 times, shout (the shield is down by now), use last wing (while attacking in between ofc). this gives you massive reduction of incoming damage while boosting your own damage.

for runes I go ARpen red; AR yellow; scaling MR blue; AD quints

My masteries are 9/21/0 taking AD, summspell, atspd and ARpen in offensive, regen, summspell, healthboni, all possible dmgredux, -10 tower ar and Juggernaut (you can also take the dmgreturn instead of towerpushstuff [just using the page for tanky ad top too, and the return makes it hard to freeze the lane])

Also don't be afraid of a fastback for a few pots when starting vamp, it boosts her security insanely, being able to stay in the jungle for quite the long time from then on. On a sidenote, don't get wriggles:

Riven is not the classical jungler, wriggles might seem nice on her, but it really does not boost her damage and survivab as good as it seems, stick to the vamp and get a bloodthirster after, say, getting boots1 or 2 and maybe a phage or hexdrinker.

other than that, I also jungled her quite nicely using classic cloth+pots, dorans (it's a waste of potential imo, she gets the same midgame power building advanced items, wihtout the 50% loss of value)

My final build is:

mercs (sometimes, rather rarely, tabi) - BT - MoMalmortius - LW - Randuins - frozen mallet

I agree with the dragon tho, it's really hard for her to do it alone, but I almost always play arranged, so at least 1 person in the field knows better than not to help me, otherwise, call your botlane for help (always helps, the faster the drag the safer)

Hope I helped :P