Kadamode's Guide To His Best Champion

Runes
- Armor Penetration Marks
- Armor/Armor per Level Seals
- Cooldown per Level Glyphs
- Armor Penetration Quintessences

Masteries

21/9/0

Offensive
- Summoner's Wrath 1/1
- Brute Force 3/3
- Alacrity 4/4
- Sorcery 4/4
- Weapon Expertise 1/1
- Havoc 3/3
- Vampirism 1/3
- Sunder 3/3
- Executioner 1/1

Defensive
- Resistance 3/3
- Hardiness 3/3
- Vigor 3/3

Items
1. Start with Doran's Blade
2. Doran's Blade
3. Doran's Blade
4. Boots
5. Brutalizer
6. Boots --> Mercury Threads
7. Phage
8. Phage --> Trinity Force
9. Sell 1 Doran's Blade, get Warmog
10. Sell another Doran's Blade, get Bloodthirster
11. Sell the last Doran's Blade, get Guardian Angel
12. Brutalizer --> Youmouu's Ghostblade

Optional : Get Guardian Angel after Trinity Force, once you died, sell the Guardian Angel for Warmogs while waiting for the 5 minutes cooldown. If you already have both, sell the Guardian Angel for Sunfire Cape while waiting for the cooldown. Once it's up, resell it to get back Guardian Angel.

Summoner Spells
- Ignite
- Flash

Skills
- Broken Wings (Q)
Up one level at Level 1, max it last

- Ki Burst (W)
Get it at Level 2, max it first

- Valor (E)
Get it at Level 4, max it second

Playstyle
Take solo top. Your playstyle depends on the enemy's amount of armor. If his total amount of armor is 30 or less, play aggressively. If his armor is 50 or more, play conservatively. Her's main source of damage is from the Ki Burst (W), so Broken Wings and Valor are just means for you to get closer to your opponent in order to stun and damage them with W.

When playing aggressively, use all your Broken Wings chain as well as Valor to inflict as much damage towards the opponent. She isn't dependent on farming creeps. When trading blows, use Valor first in order to shield yourself so you would profit more from the exchange.

When playing defensively, use Valor in order to dash followed by Ki Burst for damage while running away with Broken Wings. The playstyle of playing defensively is instead of trading blows, you are hurting them without taking any damage yourself.

The difference between these two styles is that while on aggressive mode, you are most likely to kill the enemy with the help of ignite and flash while defensive mode allows you to slowly harass the enemy in order to set up for a duel where you would emerge victorious.

In one versus one fights, utilize your Valor in order to soak up the damage. Try to refrain from using Flash because you can escape most enemy champions just by spamming Broken Wings and Valor. Usually, Flash is reserved to kill the enemy in case he escapes from you.

In team fights, she can be counted as an initiator due to her tankiness as well as assassination power. If there are no burst strong enough in the enemy team where you can go in without dying instantly, open up with Valor, stun their carries with Ki Burst. By now, if they had no defensive items their health would be halved. Follow up with Blade of the Exile slash and the kill is guaranteed to be yours.

Try to linger in the fight often as she doesn't die as easily as other Tanky DPS. Should the enemy exhaust or ignite you while you have half health or so, Valor and Broken Wings should be able to keep you alive and with the amount of stuns from Ki Burst in the situation where both of you have half health, with the help of Valor you will usually emerge victorious.

This champion is all about experience, don't be shy to try out situations such as 1 vs 5 or chasing after someone by turret jumping 3 times in a row, all I can teach you in this guide is just the basics. With experience, you will know which tactic would work out and which will not. The versatility as well as utility of this particular champion knows no end, as long as you push her to the limit, your prowess with her would increase.

Feel free to comment and ask questions.

Here's a replay of me playing in Ranked with 1.53k ELO;

http://www.mediafire.com/?get8ydjmml8ch51

Now we shall be victorious with R.iven.

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So Much neater than my guide
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you dick, ad.fly-ing us. How smart.

And thanks for the tip on G.A boss!

+100 for that!

can use flat armor and cdr instead of lvl 18 armor and cdr?




any1 answer me? Dovahkiin?

^kNs|-gReY|iNe. wrote:

can use flat armor and cdr instead of lvl 18 armor and cdr?




any1 answer me? Dovahkiin?

yeah it is possible
y not
it just depends on ur preference
if you want insta buff for your champ then get flat armor and cdr
it helps you a lot in your laning phase
but if you wanted to have a better team comp during mid and late game take per level since it benefits you more than flat

tried it, and i was ownimg top

btw, can i ask why getting tri force on riven?

killjoy wrote:

btw, can i ask why getting tri force on riven?

Because you need to play Riven as a jungler, built trinity force as your first main item, and deal TONS OF DAMAGE!!!

H3R01 wrote:

Because you need to play Riven as a jungler, built trinity force as your first main item, and deal TONS OF DAMAGE!!!

lol, im playing her solo top. i just wonder why get tri force. not all the stat will benefit her.