Look and create roam windows to gank mid, or add pressure with your jungler. If you can't kill your matchup, look to impact other lanes, like the botlane by teleporting, or the jungle matchup by using your mobility and damage to steal resources from their topside. If your botlane is winning but you're even in your lane, or behind, build healthily to act as reliable peel for your carries- it isn't your job to kill anything this game, just keep your damage dealers alive to do the killing for you. Identify you'll be splitting all game and opt for runes like Demolish and Unflinching. This needs to be decided in champ select. If your team doesn't win 5v5 teamfights, you're better off building for 1v1 or 2v1 scenarios with splitpushing strengths.
To get the most out of the champion, you need to be adaptive and reactive to the current game state and build accordingly. Depending on build, she can function as a peeler, drain tank, assassin or split pusher. Riven is an extremely mobile, high damage and versatile champion. Please upvote and leave a comment if you found the guide helpful If you have any questions, come by my stream at Twitch or ask on my Twitter. I will also discuss strategies I've learned from fellow Riven one tricks Built (1,250+LP EUW) and Rueven (1,350+LP EUW) through talking to them and discussing itemisation and matchups.
This guide will serve as more than a guide to just Riven, but teach you how to get the most value out of the champion and control the lane with Riven's strengths to generate leads through more than just killing your lane opponent. Within this guide is knowledge from myself and my experience with Riven, as well as things I've learned from watching 1,000+LP Riven players Rueven and Built.
I've also played in the Oceanic Academy series and been coached by CLG Thien, Veigar v2, Maximize (LCO Pro), Pabu (Worlds attendee and Rank 1 OCE) respectively. I've been playing League since the end of season 3 and have mained Riven since, peaking Challenger in season 7 and am Master currently. I'm followed on Twitter by Revenge, Chase Shaco, Lourlo, Rueven, Built, Midbeast, Sanchovies, Jurrasiq, PantsAreDragon, Dragoon, Yisus, Karasmai, Luminum, Alois, Tenacity, Rime, Forgotten Project, Isles, Benji, Dun, Irelia Carries U, RTO, Synapse, JKSAD, Kidi, Pabu and FaZe Jev. Hi Riven players, welcome to my guide on The Exile, my name is Koady or Rival as I've been known in the community since the earliest seasons of League. He'll outscale you around 2-3 items regardless of kills unless you're like 10-0. A lot of Riven players think this matchup is free, but it's really easy to let Nasus loose if played incorrectly. He's also safe from ganks and is quite hard to dive.
The reason pushing the wave into him is bad, is not only can he free stack under the tower, his passive also heals him a lot so you'll never have kill pressure. If he's low on stacks at level 6, Riven just wins.but if his CS is even with yours, you're in trouble. From here, setup a freeze and hard trade on him when he tries to Q the wave, or just deny him stacks. Because spirit fire is aoe, it'll push the wave to your tower. Don't attack him the aoe from your Q will push the wave into him.
Level 1, you need to assert pressure by walking up to him and forcing him to last hit with spirit fire. There is actually a very specific wincon in this matchup for Riven, deny stacks and his passive healing, but not many know how to execute it properly, so read on. In lower elos, this matchup is free.but in high elos, the only people that play Nasdog are one tricks/mains that know how to pilot him.