Riven Counters Classic 26.22

Distance is doing your work here. Undertow throws from far out, damaging and slowing everything the axe passes through, and it stays where it fell, so collecting it brings the next throw back sooner. Skip that walk and the cooldown runs full length.

Riven gets a faster Olaf the further your health falls. Berserker Rage ties your attack speed to the health you have lost, and Reckless Swing adds to that total, since its true damage cuts you along with her. Vicious Strikes runs six seconds of lifesteal and spell vamp, so your swings put health back.

Press Ragnarok once something has already caught you. That press strips immobilizing and disabling effects off you and shuts the door on more for six seconds, with armor, magic resist and lethality riding along. Waste it early and you are bare for the long stretch before it returns.

Every slow on you is gone the moment Decisive Strike goes up, and the burst of speed it adds walks you back onto Riven. The silence only lands with the attack behind it, so close the last of the distance before you swing. A swing thrown at air carries nothing.

Against Courage, Riven meets a shield that trims a share off everything incoming and softens crowd control while it holds. Its length grows with rank, from two seconds up to six. Judgment spins for three seconds and damages everyone standing close to you.

Health comes back at half a percent of your maximum each second, and Perseverance starts it only after nine seconds with no champion, tower or monster damage on you. Break the trade off early to reach that window sooner. One poke from Riven puts the count back to the beginning, however small it was.

Electrical Surge adds extra damage and a Mark of the Storm every few attacks. Let one of those attacks open the sequence. Riven then carries the marked state required by the ability's activation. Activate Electrical Surge for damage and another mark. A third application is still required for the stun and Energy return.

Budget Energy around Lightning Rush. Passing through Riven deals damage, adds a mark, and gives Kennen four seconds of bonus defenses. Its cost exceeds Thundering Shuriken at every rank, while Electrical Surge costs forty Energy. Use the rush when all three effects matter, not for a mark you could build another way.

Track the six seconds after Mark of the Storm stuns Riven. Kennen gains twenty five Energy on that completion, but another stun inside the window lasts only half a second. Slicing Maelstrom still damages nearby enemy champions over three seconds. Leave after the shorter stun if the damage has not finished her.