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Riven
GameplayRiven is a champion in League of Legends.[1]
Abilities
- Runic Blade's duration also refreshes when Riven consumes a stack.
- The empowered attack will not trigger against structures nor wards.
- Each cast counts as a single ability activation for the purposes of on-cast effects such as Spellblade and stacking Force Pulse.
- The basic attack reset is not considered one for Hail of Blades.
- After using this ability, Riven is able to use Valor sooner than basic attacks and other abilities.
- The Third Cast prevents Riven from using basic attacks and abilities for longer than the other 2 casts.
- Notes
- All bonuses are gained after 0.5 seconds of the ability starting its cast.
- The bonus attack damage amount is factored upon cast, and does not change.
- If Riven has a basic attack buffered before the end of Blade of the Exile's cast time, the buffered basic attack will start 0.33 seconds after the end of the cast time.
- The delay will not apply to basic attack commands input after Blade of the Exile's cast time.
- Notes
- Wind Slash counts as an ability activation for the purposes of on-cast effects such as Spellblade and stacking Force Pulse.
- This ability will cast from wherever the caster is at the end of the cast time.
- Wind Slash's wave is made up of three individual missiles spread in a cone.
- Each enemy can be damaged by only one missile.
- If Wind Slash hits an enemy while Riven is not visible, it will briefly grant sight of the area around her to enemies.
- If Riven has a basic attack buffered before the end of Wind Slash's cast time, the buffered basic attack will start 0.528 seconds after the end of the cast time.
- The delay is not applied if a basic attack command is input after the cast time.
Champion skins
- This article section only contains champion skins. For all associated collection items, see Riven (Collection).
Once a swordmaster in the warhosts of Noxus, Riven is an expatriate in a land she previously tried to conquer. She rose through the ranks on the strength of her conviction and brutal efficiency, and was rewarded with a legendary runic blade and a warband of her own. However, on the Ionian front, Riven’s faith in her homeland was tested and ultimately broken. Having severed all ties to the empire, she now seeks to find her place in a shattered world, even as rumors abound that Noxus itself has been reforged…
Cristina Valenzuela
Jason Chan
Loot eligible
Loot inelgible
Patch history
- For the expanded patch notes, see here.
- Ki Burst
- Base damage increased to 65 / 95 / 125 / 155 / 185 from 55 / 85 / 115 / 145 / 175.
- Valor
- Bonus AD ratio increased to 120% bonus AD from 100%.
- Valor
- Base shield reduced to 85 / 115 / 145 / 175 / 205 from 95 / 125 / 155 / 185 / 215.
- Valor
- Cooldown reduced to 10 / 9 / 8 / 7 / 6 seconds from 12 / 11 / 10 / 9 / 8.
- Stats
- Base magic resistance reduced to 32 from 32.1.
- Broken Wings
- Bug Fix: Casting it from Fog of War while hovering her cursor over an enemy champion or minion, she and the small area around her will no longer by revealed by the enemy team.
- Valor
- Bug Fix: Casting it from Fog of War while hovering her cursor over an enemy champion or minion, she and the small area around her will no longer by revealed by the enemy team.
- Runic Blade
- Bug Fix: When at three stacks the duration now properly resets when one stack is used.
- Runic Blade
- AD ratio increased to 30% − 60% (based on level) AD from 25% − 50% (based on level) AD.
- Broken Wings
- Bug Fix: Tooltip has been corrected to remove the attack speed gain.
- Broken Wings
- Bug Fix: Now properly activates Conqueror and give her four stacks of the rune when quickly used twice on the same target.
- Bug Fix: Now properly activates
- Stats
- Base health increased to 560 from 558.48.
- Base health regeneration increased to 8.5 from 7.
- General
- Recommended items updated.
- Broken Wings
- Cooldown increased to 13 seconds from 12.
- Valor
- Cooldown reduced to 12 / 11 / 10 / 9 / 8 seconds from 14 / 13 / 12 / 11 / 10.
- Broken Wings
- Cooldown increased to 12 seconds at all ranks from 12 / 11.5 / 11 / 10.5 / 10.
- Broken Wings
- Cooldown reduced to 12 / 11.5 / 11 / 10.5 / 10 seconds from 13 at all ranks.
- Valor
- Cooldown increased to 14 / 13 / 12 / 11 / 10 seconds from 10 / 9 / 8 / 7 / 6.
- General
- Updated visual effects.
- Basic attack visual noise reduced.
- Runic Blade
- Sword and hand now glow instead of creating a green energy ball with rune trails on top of her hand.
- Broken Wings
- VFX updated to be less noise and unique per cast.
- Ground damage VFX added to indicate area of effect.
- Ki Burst
- VFX updated to reduce visual noise on the ground symbol and better indicate area of effect.
- Valor
- Dash and shield VFX updated.
- Shield runes changed to be the pieces of her sword.
- Blade of the Exile
- Buff VFX surrounding her cleaned up
- Stronger buff VFX added to her sword.
- Other ability VFX properly indicates increased area of effect while R is active.
- Wind Slash
- VFX is clearer and now appears as a single strike.
- Battle Bunny Riven
- VFX recolored orange.
- E shield runes are carrots.
- Dragonblade Riven
- Has skin-specific smokey/firey VFX.
- Passive VFX is a flame ring around her hand.
- E shield runes are dragon crests.
- Wind Slash
- New Effect: Ability icon border now shows the remaining time to recast the ability.
- Stats
- Base health regeneration increased to 7 from 5.5.
- Blade of the Exile
- Cooldown reduced to 120 / 90 / 60 seconds from 130 / 95 / 60.
- Dragonblade Riven
- Valor
- Bug Fix: Trail is no longer invisible on lower graphics settings.
- Stats
- Base health regeneration increased to 5.5 from 5.34.
- Broken Wings
- Base damage increased to 15 / 35 / 55 / 75 / 95 from 10 / 30 / 50 / 70 / 90.
- AD ratio increased to 45 / 50 / 55 / 60 / 65% AD from 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 / 60% AD.
- Stats
- Base attack damage increased to 64 from 56.04.
- Base armor increased to 33 from 24.376.
- Runic Blade
- Rune charge duration increased to 6 seconds from 5.
- Ki Burst
- Base damage increased to 55 / 85 / 115 / 145 / 175 from 50 / 80 / 110 / 140 / 170.
- Valor
- Shield strength increased to 95 / 125 / 155 / 185 / 215 from 90 / 120 / 150 / 180 / 210.
- Broken Wings
- Bug Fix: Can no longer both pop a spell shield and deal damage in specific circumstances.
- General
- Bug Fix: During her joke animation, her fingers no longer clip through her sword.
- Runic Blade
- Removed: On-hit effect procing against wards.
- Dawnbringer Riven
- Ki Burst
- Bug Fix: No longer causes other Rivens in the same game to steal Ki Burst SFX.
- Dawnbringer Riven
- Bug Fix: Fixed special borders being cut off at the bottom during loading screen.
- Broken Wings
- Bug Fix: Casting it too quickly after one another no longer prevents unit targeting from working properly on casts beyond the first.
- General
- New Effect: Runic Blade's buff duration, Broken Wings' recast window, and Blade of the Exile's buff duration are now tracked as timers overlaid above their ability icons, rather than via buff bar icons.
- New Effect:
- Runic Blade
- New Effect: Stacks are now tracked below her health bar and are only visible to Riven.
- Broken Wings
- The timing around when Riven becomes able to animation cancel Q casts, as well as how long she has to animation cancel, have both been made more consistent.
- New Effect: Can no longer joke, taunt, or laugh during Broken Wings's animations.
- New Effect: Can more reliably target units on high-latency environments.
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where the knockback on Broken Wings's third cast ended sooner than intended if it interrupted a different displacement effect or if the target collided with terrain.
- Valor
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where spell queueing sometimes didn't properly work when casting Valor during Broken Wings' animation.
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where spell queueing sometimes didn't properly work when casting Valor during
- Valor
- Bug Fix: Riven being able to cancel crowd control applied by displacements.
- Broken Wings
- Bug Fix: Third cast not allowing Riven to go through walls if Valor is active.
- Bug Fix: Third cast not allowing Riven to go through walls if
- Battle Bunny Riven
- Broken Wings
- Bug Fix: Missing sound effects.
- Wind Slash
- Bug Fix: Missing sound effects.
- Championship Riven
- Broken Wings
- Bug Fix: Third cast's custom blue on-hit particles being replaced with Classic's green ones.
- Wind Slash
- Bug Fix: Custom blue on-hit particles being replaced with Classic's green ones.
- Wind Slash
- Minimum base damage increased to 100 / 150 / 200 from 80 / 120 / 160.
- Maximum base damage increased to 300 / 450 / 600 from 240 / 360 / 480.
- General
- Splash artwork for Crimson Elite Riven updated to the Chinese art.
- Splash artwork for
- Runic Blade
- Bonus damage increased to 25 − 50 (based on level)% AD from 20 − 50 (based on level)% AD.
- Stats
- Base health regeneration increased to 5.34 from 3.34.
- Broken Wings
- Bug Fix: Third cast sometimes failing to get Riven through terrain she is supposed to be able to cross.
- Blade of the Exile
- Cooldown increased to 130 / 95 / 60 seconds from 110 / 85 / 50.
- Broken Wings
- Bug Fix: Cooldown being incorrectly reset at the end if Riven performed certain actions between casts.
- General
- Base movement speed reduced to 340 from 345.
- Wind Slash
- Projectile speed reduced to 1600 from 2200.
- Stats
- Base armor increased to 19 from 15.
- Stats
- Base health regeneration reduced to 2.5 from 5.
- Valor
- Shield strength increased to 90 / 120 / 150 / 180 / 210 from 70 / 100 / 130 / 160 / 190.
- Stats
- Base attack damage reduced to 51 from 54.
- Attack damage per level increased to 3 from 2.75.
- Broken Wings
- Damage per cast changed to 10 / 30 / 50 / 70 / 90 (+ 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 / 60% AD) from 30 / 55 / 80 / 105 / 130 (+ 70% bonus AD)
- Valor
- Shield duration reduced to 1.5 seconds from 2.5.
- General
- New running animation.
- General
- New splash artwork for Original Riven.
- New splash artwork for
- Broken Wings
- New Effect: Third cast allows Riven to go through some terrain when positioned accordingly.
- Third cast's displacement changed to knockup from knockback.
- Wind Slash
- Bug Fix: Riven being able to cast a second time after using Zhonya's Hourglass.
- Bug Fix: Riven being able to cast a second time after using
- Runic Blade
- Bonus damage changed to 15 − 45 (based on level)% AD from 5 − 15 (based on level) (+ 50% bonus AD).
- (Undocumented) bonus damage increased to 20 − 50 (based on level)% AD from 15 − 45 (based on level)% AD.
- Broken Wings
- Bug Fix: Splash damage being incorrectly applied if Valor was cast too recently.
- Bug Fix: Splash damage being incorrectly applied if
- Stats
- Base health regeneration reduced to 6 from 10.4.
- Health regeneration per level reduced to 0.5 from 0.9.
- Valor
- Shield strength increased to 70 / 100 / 130 / 160 / 190 from 60 / 90 / 120 / 150 / 180.
- Blade of the Exile
- New Effect: Targeting cone is attached to Riven.
- Cooldown increased to 110 / 80 / 50 seconds from 75 / 60 / 45.
- Stats
- Movement speed increased to 345 from 320.
- Broken Wings
- New Effect: Movement commands issued within dash range are canceled to prevent Riven from automatically walking backwards.
- Broken Wings
- Bug Fix: Riven being unable to move during the third cast.
- Blade of the Exile
- New Effect: Allied ultimate HUD indicator remains green until Wind Slash is used.
- New Effect: Allied ultimate HUD indicator remains green until
- Stats
- Movement speed reduced to 320 from 325.
- Base health regeneration reduced to 10.4 from 12.
- Health regeneration per level reduced to 0.9 from 1.
- Broken Wings
- Base damage increased to 30 / 55 / 80 / 105 / 130 from 30 / 50 / 70 / 90 / 110.
- Ki Burst
- Base damage reduced to 50 / 80 / 110 / 140 / 170 from 50 / 90 / 130 / 170 / 210.
- Blade of the Exile
- New Effect: Tooltip displays the exact 20% AD value gained as bonus attack damage while active.
- General
- Bug Fix: Riven stopping her movement after being issued certain commands.
- Bug Fix: Riven's hitbox radius being incorrectly calculated.
- Broken Wings
- Bug Fix: Temporarily leaving unpathable killed minions behind.
- Ki Burst
- Bug Fix: Temporarily leaving unpathable killed minions behind.
- Broken Wings
- New Effect: Counts as an attack command when used to lock onto a target.
- Duration of minion collision ignoring after third cast slightly increased.
- Stats
- Attack speed per level increased to 3.5% from 2.9%.
- Base armor increased to 15 from 12.
- Broken Wings
- AD ratio increased to 70% bonus AD from 60% bonus AD.
- Ki Burst
- Cast time reduced to 0.25 seconds from 0.5.
- Valor
- Base shield strength increased to 60 / 90 / 120 / 150 / 180 from 40 / 70 / 100 / 130 / 160.
- Cooldown reduced to 10 / 9 / 8 / 7 / 6 seconds from 11 / 10 / 9 / 8 / 7.
- Wind Slash
- Cast time reduced to 0.25 seconds from 0.5.
- Projectile speed increased to 2200 from 2000.
- Added
Trivia
- Riven is one of 22 champions without a single ability power ratio on any ability: Aatrox, Akshan, Camille, Darius, Dr. Mundo, Draven, Garen, Kalista, Kayn, Kindred, Kled, Olaf, Pyke, Samira, Sett, Talon, Urgot, Vayne, Xayah, Yone, and Zed.
- Riven's dance resembles the Water Dance of Braavos from Game of Thrones.
- Runic Blade used to be called 'Art of War' (can be seen in Riven's Champion Spotlight) while Ki Burst used to be called 'Ki Shout'.[2]
- During development she was simply called Marth or Exile.
- Riven is the past participle of English verb to rive "split or tear apart violently".[3]
See also
| Cancelled Champions | |
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References
- ↑ Riven's profile page at LeagueOfLegends.com
- ↑ Riven: Champion Spotlight | Gameplay - League of Legends
- ↑ G. Kroonen, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic, p. 412
