Riven.
Is.
FUCKING.
AWESOME!
She's like a Bubbi Bear on crack cocaine, delivering DEATH by Facestab. She's quite possibly the most hilarious fun I've had with a champ in forever.
Forget the smacktards who watched the champ spotlight and say she should be top. She can be counterpicked. She'll struggle against ranged or champs with lots of sustain. Jungle riven is where it's at BROs.
I run the following at the moment: 21/0/9. Attack Damage Reds, Flat armor yellows. Flad CDR Blues, Attack Damage Quints. Start item is dorans blade. Skill Order QWEEWR-> W>E>R
You start at wolf camp. You're going to need a ghetto pull. Basically you attack the wolves so they target you, then mid fires whichever spell they took at them and leaves. It's important you pick up the aggro first, since your Q will only hit all 3 wolves if they remain at their start locations. Your Q resets the autoattack timer, so you want to fire each of its 3 activations immediately after an autoattack for maximum DPS.
Smite blue wraith at max distance. This'll let you hit lv2 and get your stun. Stun the small wraiths, then do your attack->q->attack->q->attack->q->attack combo again. You should be at ~75% hp
Continue to small golems. Careful, this is where you wll be vilnerable to counterjungle. Stun and q-combo until one dies, then kite the other until your cooldowns refresh and stun+q-combo. You should be at ~100hp when both golems die.
Congratulations! Awesome will now commence.
Bluepill, wait 4-5 secs for the last gold you need to buy cloth armor. Now gank a sidelane. Top if you are blue, bot if you are purple. Use E to dash in followed by spamming Q to close the gap. Stun with W and use your passive to deal massive autoattack damage. If it fails, don't sweat. Don't dive. Head to blue. If you feel greedy you can take it, but you don't really need it. Donate it to mid if he wasn't a douchebag in champ select. Mid will have to be fairly quick in claiming it though, since you don't want to take too much damage tanking it. continue clearing jungle, but leave red.
Bluepill. Depending on how well your ganks went, you want tems in the following order: Vampiric Scepter, Boots, Longsword, Madreds Bloodrazor, Wriggles Lantern. (Yes, I've actually managed to complete a wriggles lantern on my second back today after scoring a triple kill top at lv3).
Now claim red buff and gank.
Rivens core items: Wriggles lantern, Boots (merc, ninja, ionian depending on enemy team), Phage, Brutalizer.
- Upgrade Phage to Mallet, then get an atmas, then brutalizer to youmuus. Then get more tanky items.
You can do dragon with help from bot once you're lv4 and have finished your madreds. Or solo it from lv 6 if you have finished wriggles, start at full hp and use your ult+smite.
Pros: Hilariously fun to play. Can gank pretty early. Can donate every blue buff (and every red buff from the 2nd onwards) without impacting her jungle. Pretty strong ganks with 2 dashes and a stun. High damage even if built tanky.
Cons: Dies hard to focus fire. Initial jungle lv 1-3 gets you pretty low.
Getting the timing right for combos feels pretty rewarding. With max CDR her ultimate has a cooldown of 27 sec and her E is around 4 sec. your E won't let you move through walls. but other than that it works pretty much like a nidalee pounce meets Vaynes tumble. It's v. good for juking skillshots and chasing.