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Riven

Fighter / Assassin

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Riven was last nerfed in Patch 26.7 (). Across 67 patches, Riven has received 17 buffs, 11 nerfs, 38 adjustments since release in Patch 1.0.0.125.

Abilities
Runic BladePC
Passive - Runic Blade

Innate: Riven's ability casts generate a stack of Charge for 6 seconds, refreshing on subsequent casts and stacking up to 3 times. Riven's basic attacks are empowered to each consume a stack to deal bonus physical damage equal to 30% - 46.76% (based on level) AD, reduced to 50% against structures. Against monsters, it also deals 50 additional bonus physical damage.

The bonus damage is affected by critical strike modifiers and applies life steal at 100% effectiveness.

Broken WingsPC
Q - Broken Wings
CD: 13
Cast Time: None
Effect Radius: 150 / 250 / 200 / 300

Active: Riven can activate Broken Wings three times before the ability goes on cooldown, with a 0.3125 -second static cooldown between casts. If Riven does not recast the ability within 4 seconds of the previous cast, it goes on cooldown.

Physical Damage: 45 / 75 / 105 / 135 / 165 (+ 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80% bonus AD)
Total Physical Damage: 135 / 225 / 315 / 405 / 495 (+ 180 / 195 / 210 / 225 / 240% bonus AD)

Riven slashes with her sword for each of the three casts, dealing physical damage to enemies struck within an area, Basic attack reset her basic attack timer, and ordering her to basic attack the target of Broken Wings if there are any.

First Cast: Riven dash 225 units in the direction she is currently facing, or up to 225 units towards the target enemy, striking enemies in the target area 100 units away. This cast cannot cross terrain.

Second Cast: Riven mimics the first cast's effects.

Third Cast: Riven mimics the first cast's effects in a larger area while also airborne enemies hit 75 units over 0.5 seconds. This cast can cross terrain.

Ki BurstPC
W - Ki Burst
CD: 11 / 10 / 9 / 8 / 7
Cast Time: 0.25
Effect Radius: 300

Active: Riven emits a flash of runic energy, dealing physical damage to nearby enemies and stun them for 0.75 seconds.

Physical Damage: 65 / 95 / 125 / 155 / 185 (+ 100% bonus AD)
ValorPC
E - Valor
CD: 10 / 9 / 8 / 7 / 6
Cast Time: None
Range: 250

Active: Riven dash in the target direction, though not through terrain, while granting herself a shield for 1.5 seconds.

Shield Strength: 70 / 95 / 120 / 145 / 170 (+ 110% bonus AD)

Riven can cast any of her abilities during the dash. Valor will cast at max range if cast beyond that.

Blade of the ExilePC
R - Blade of the Exile
CD: 120 / 90 / 60
Cast Time: 0.25

Active: Riven empowers her blade for 15 seconds, gaining 25% AD bonus attack damage, 75 bonus attack range, and increased range on Broken Wings and Ki Burst. After 0.5 seconds, she can cast Wind Slash within the duration.

Wind SlashPC
R - Wind Slash
Cast Time: 0.25
Range: 1100

Active: Riven unleashes a wave of energy in a cone in the target direction that deals physical damage to enemies hit, increased by 0% - 200% (based on level).

Minimum Physical Damage: 100 / 150 / 200 (+ 60% bonus AD)
Maximum Physical Damage: 300 / 450 / 600 (+ 180% bonus AD)

Base Stats

Health: 630
Health Per Level: 100
Attack Damage: 64
AD Per Level: 3
Attack Speed: 0.625
AS Per Level: 3.5
Armor: 33
Armor Per Level: 4.4
Magic Resist: 32
MR Per Level: 2.05
Movement Speed: 340
Range: 125
Health Regen: 8.5
HP Regen Per Level: 0.5
Patch 26.7nerfCurrent Patch

Runic Blade

  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug that caused the damage to not be reduced when she critically strikes from items.
Patch 26.3nerf

Riven's been crushing it ever since she discovered Axiom Arc. We like that she's swift and lethal in the early game but ultimately she's bursting down her competition too quickly once mid game arrives. Additionally, with all the extra gold and experience in the game right now, players have cited that late game fights resolve too quickly. So, all that considered, we're here to take out some of her late game burst power.

Runic Blade

  • AD ratio reduced to 30 to 45% (based on level) AD from 30 to 50% (based on level) AD.

Broken Wings

  • Bonus AD ratio reduced to 60/65/70/75/80% bonus AD from 65/70/75/80/85%.
Patch 25.23buff

Riven's native mobility, strong dueling, and interesting risk profile of having to burn damage in order to close the gap could make for a really compelling jungle champion. She's also monstrously hard to play, but even accounting for that, she appears to be a pretty abysmal jungler at her current tuning. We're substantially buffing her first clear to see if players will find a fun, dynamic, high-skill fighter compelling in this new role.

Runic Blade

  • New Effect: Now deals 50 bonus physical damage to monsters.
Patch 25.22change

Broken Wings

  • Bug Fix: Airborne disable no longer ends abruptly on targets upon their collision with terrain during the displacement.
Patch 25.14change

Passive AD ratio decreased late.

Runic Blade

  • AD ratio reduced to 30 to 50% (based on level) from 30 to 60% (based on level). Formula is now also fully linear and no longer features a breakpoint at level 18.

Broken Wings

  • The third cast's displacement no longer prematurely ends when the affected enemy collides with a wall during it.
  • Occasionally, the third cast's airborne distance will be greatly increased.
  • This is not intended.
Patch 14.24nerf

E shield decreased.

Valor

  • Base shield reduced to 70/95/120/145/170 from 80/105/130/155/180.
Patch 14.20buff

Q damage increased. Recommended Runes updated.

General

  • Recommended runes updated.
  • Legend: Alacrity to Legend: Haste.
  • Last Stand to Cut Down.
  • Nimbus Cloak to Gathering Storm.
  • Bone Plating to Second Wind.
  • Unflinching to Shield Bash.

Broken Wings

  • Base damage increased to 45/75/105/135/165 from 15/35/55/75/95.
  • AD ratio changed to 65/70/75/80/85% bonus AD from 50/55/60/65/70% total AD.
Patch 14.2change

Dawnbringer and Pulsefire

  • Valor
  • Bug Fix: VFX no longer unintentionally renders over impassable terrain and structures.

Broken Covenant

  • Bug Fix: VFX for her dance emote, Recall, and respawn at the base no longer become cut-off when triggered on lower graphic settings.

Battle Bunny Prime

  • Bug Fix: No longer causes her feet to slide on the ground during her idle animations.
Patch 13.23buff

Q AD scaling increased. R AD scaling increased.

Broken Wings

  • AD ratio increased to 50/55/60/65/70% AD from 45/50/55/60/65% AD.

Blade of the Exile

  • Bonus attack damage increased to 25% AD from 20% AD.
Patch 13.22change

Reignited Worlds 2012

  • Skin renamed to Reignited Worlds 2012 Riven from Worlds 2016 Riven.
Patch 13.20change

Worlds 2012

  • Skin renamed to Worlds 2012 Riven from Championship Riven.

Reignited Worlds 2012

  • Skin renamed to Worlds 2016 Riven from Championship Riven 2016.
Patch 13.4buff

Passive bonus AD scaling adjusted, now deals 50% of bonus damage to towers, stack resource bar added.

Runic Blade

  • AD ratio increased to 30/58/60% AD from 30 to 60% (based on level) AD. Now scales linearly.
  • New Effect: Now applies bonus damage against structures at 50% effectiveness.
  • New Effect: Stacks now display on health bar for the player.
Patch 12.10change

Stats

  • Base health increased to 630 from 560.
  • Health growth increased to 100 from 86.
  • Armor growth increased to 4.4 from 3.2.
  • Magic resistance growth increased to 2.05 from 1.25.

Valor

  • Base shield reduced to 80/105/130/155/180 from 85/115/145/175/205.
  • Shield bonus AD ratio reduced to 110% bonus AD from 120%.
Patch 11.22buff

W base damage increased. E shield ratio increased.

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%.
Patch 11.13nerf

E base shield strength reduced.

Valor

  • Base shield reduced to 85/115/145/175/205 from 95/125/155/185/215.
Patch 11.3buff

E cooldown decreased.

Valor

  • Cooldown reduced to 10/9/8/7/6 seconds from 12/11/10/9/8.
Patch 11.1nerf

Stats

  • Base magic resistance reduced to 32 from 32.1.
Patch 10.18change

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.
Patch 10.15change

Runic Blade

  • Bug Fix: When at three stacks the duration now properly resets when one stack is used.
Patch 10.14buff

Passive bonus damage increased.

Runic Blade

  • AD ratio increased to 30 to 60% (based on level) AD from 25 to 50% (based on level) AD.
Patch 10.12change

Broken Wings

  • Bug Fix: Tooltip has been corrected to remove the attack speed gain.
Patch 10.9change

Broken Wings

  • Bug Fix: Now properly activates Conqueror and give her four stacks of the rune when quickly used twice on the same target.
Patch 10.7buff

Base health and health regen increased.

Stats

  • Base health increased to 560 from 558.48.
  • Base health regeneration increased to 8.5 from 7.
Patch 9.19change

Q cooldown increased. E cooldown decreased.

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.
Patch 9.16nerf

Broken Wings

  • Cooldown increased to 12 seconds at all ranks from 12/11.5/11/10.5/10.
Patch 9.10change

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.
Patch 9.4change

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

  • VFX recolored orange.
  • E shield runes are carrots.

Dragonblade

  • Has skin-specific smokey/fiery VFX.
  • Passive VFX is a flame ring around her hand.
  • E shield runes are dragon crests.
Patch 9.1buff

Wind Slash

  • New Effect: Ability icon now shows the remaining time to recast the ability.
Patch 8.13buff

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.
Patch 8.9change

Dragonblade

  • Valor
  • Bug Fix: Trail is no longer invisible on lower graphics settings.
Patch 8.3buff

Stats

  • Base health regeneration increased to 5.5 from 5.34.
Patch 7.24buff

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.
Patch 7.22buff

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.
Patch 7.20change

Broken Wings

  • Bug Fix: Can no longer both pop a spell shield and deal damage in specific circumstances.
Patch 7.19change

General

  • Bug Fix: During her joke animation, her fingers no longer clip through her sword.
Patch 7.16nerf

Runic Blade

  • Removed: On-hit effect procing against wards.
Patch 7.15change

Dawnbringer

  • Ki Burst
  • Bug Fix: No longer causes other Rivens in the same game to steal Ki Burst SFX.
Patch 7.13change

Dawnbringer

  • Bug Fix: Fixed special borders being cut off at the bottom during loading screen.
Patch 7.11change

Broken Wings

  • Bug Fix: Casting it too quickly after one another no longer prevents unit targeting from working properly on casts beyond the first.
Patch 7.10change

General

  • New Effect: Runic Blade buff duration, Broken Wings recast window, and Blade of the Exile buff duration are now tracked as timers overlaid above their ability icons, rather than via buff bar icons.

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.
Patch 7.2change

Valor

  • Bug Fix: Can no longer cancel crowd control applied by displacement abilities.
Patch 6.21change

Broken Wings

  • Bug Fix: No longer prevented from dashing over walls with the third cast of Broken Wings if she's under the effects of Valor.
Patch 6.20change

Broken Wings

  • Bug Fix: Battle Bunny Riven's sound effects for Broken Wings and Wind Slash have been restored.
Patch 6.18change

Wind Slash

  • Bug Fix: Championship Riven's Wind Slash and third cast of Broken Wings once again use custom blue on-hit particles, rather than the green on-hit particles of her base skin.
Patch 6.17buff

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.
Patch 6.1buff

Runic Blade

  • AD ratio increased to 25%-50% AD from 20%-50% AD.
Patch 5.24buff

General

  • Health regeneration increased to 5.34 from 3.34.
Patch 5.21nerf

General

  • Cooldown increased to 130/95/60 from 110/85/50.
Patch 5.18change

Broken Wings

  • Fixed a bug where Broken Wings cooldown was improperly reset at the end if certain actions occurred in between casts
Patch 5.9nerf

General

  • Movement speed reduced to 340 from 345.
  • Missile speed reduced to 1600 from 2200.
Patch 4.2change

Stats

  • Base health regeneration reduced to 2.5 from 5.5.

Valor

  • Shield strength increased to 90/120/150/180/210 from 70/100/130/160/190.
Patch 4.1change

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% total AD) from 30/55/80/105/130 (+70% bonus AD).

Valor

  • Shield duration reduced to 1.5 seconds from 2.5.
Patch 3.15change

General

  • New running animation.
Patch 3.10achange

General

  • Fixed an issue where several of Riven's particle effects were missing.

Broken Wings

  • Third hit now knocks up affected targets rather than knocking them back.
  • Only the third cast can now leap over walls.
  • Hitbox has been re-tuned to more closely match the particles.
Patch 3.9change

Broken Wings

  • Fixed a bug that made it possible to chain more than 3 strikes.
Patch 3.5change

Wind Slash

  • Fixed a bug where Riven could cast Wind Slash a second time after using Zhonya's Hourglass.
Patch 3.2change

These changes should offer Riven players new rune and item choices beyond simply stacking attack damage. In addition, they should slightly reduce her early lane snowballing, but increase her ability to recover if she falls behind.

Runic Blade

  • Adjusted damage to 15-45% of her total Attack Damage (based on champion level) from 5-15 (+0.5 bonus attack damage).

Broken Wings

  • Fixed a bug that was causing Broken Wings to improperly apply its splash damage if Valor was cast too recently.
Patch 1.0.0.154nerf

Stats

  • Base health regeneration reduced to 5.5 from 9.5.
  • Health regeneration per level reduced to 0.5 from 0.9.

Valor

  • Shield amount increased to 70/100/130/160/190 from 60/90/120/150/180.

Blade of the Exile

  • Cooldown increased to 110/80/50 seconds from 75/60/45.
  • Targeting cone is now attached to Riven.
Patch 1.0.0.141change

Broken Wings

  • If the dash extends past Riven's current movement order location, that order will be cancelled; she will no longer automatically walk backwards to that point.
Patch 1.0.0.136change

Broken Wings

  • Fixed a bug where Riven could get locked out of moving during the third cast.
Patch 1.0.0.134change

Blade of the Exile

  • Allied ultimate HUD indicator now remains green until the shockwave cast is used.
Patch 1.0.0.132nerf

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.
Patch 1.0.0.130change

Blade of the Exile

  • Tooltip updated to display how much attack damage you will gain.
  • It has been clarified to state that it scales off total attack damage, not bonus attack damage.
Patch 1.0.0.128change

General

  • Fixed a bug that caused her to stop moving after certain commands.
  • Fixed a bug that caused her collision radius to be improperly calculated.

Ki Burst and Broken Wings

  • Fixed a bug that caused them to temporarily leave dead unpathable minions behind.
Patch 1.0.0.127change

Broken Wings

  • Now counts as an attack command when used to lock onto a target.
  • Slightly extended duration of collision ignoring with minions after using this ability.
Patch 1.0.0.126buff

Ki Burst

  • Stun duration increased to 0.75 seconds from 0.5.
Patch 1.0.0.125new

Riven added to League of Legends

Runic Blade (Innate)

  • Riven's abilities charge her blade, causing her to do bonus damage on her next autoattack. Riven can store up to 3 charges, but only expends one at a time.

Broken Wings (Q)

  • Riven steps forward and lashes out in a series of powerful sword slashes. This ability can be activated up to 3 times in a short period.
  • 1st/2nd Use: Deals damage to a small area in front of her.
  • 3rd Use: Jumps into the air and slams downward, causing a larger impact nova that deals damage and knocks nearby enemies back.

Ki Burst (W)

  • Riven damages and stuns nearby enemies.

Valor (E)

  • Riven dashes forward and gains a shield for a short duration.

Blade of the Exile (Ultimate)

  • Riven's sword reforms, giving her a percentage multiplier on her total attack damage, extended range on her damaging abilities and basic attacks and the ability to use Wind Slash once.
  • Wind Slash
  • While Blade of the Exile is active, Riven can reactivate the ability to emit a large shock wave that deals damage to all units hit based on their missing life.