What is the best build for Riven?

We do not publish a best build for Riven, and the reason is worth thirty seconds. The most recorded Riven top build on patch 16.14 is Endless Hunger, Death's Dance and Axiom Arc, in 109 games. A finished item set is read at the end of the game, so a build only appears once the game ran long enough to buy it, and a game that runs long is usually a game you were winning. Any share of wins taken from those games leans high for that reason on its own, which is why there is not one in this answer. The page lists every recorded build with the games behind it.

What are the best runes for Riven?

The most recorded Riven top rune page on patch 16.14 takes Conqueror out of Precision, with Triumph, Legend: Haste and Last Stand beside it and Magical Footwear and Cosmic Insight out of Inspiration. Players who ran it won 49.7% of 1,048 games, range 46.7% to 52.7%. A rune page is locked in at champion select, so that share is not inflated by long games the way a build is, but it counts who picked the page rather than what the page did.

What skill order should I use on Riven?

Recorded Riven top players max Q, then E, then W. 329 recorded games on patch 16.14.

Riven build, patch 16.14

2,050 games of Riven recorded on patch 16.14, across top, mid, jungle, bot and support.

Win rate

49.5% of top games this patch

Pick rate

1.7% of top games

Games

1,290 top, patch 16.14

Rank in role

37 of 122 top champions

Win impact against the average top pick on patch 16.14: -0.2 wins per 100 games (range -1.9 to 1.5) 1,290 games Pooled

What most Riven top players build, patch 16.14

Build Endless Hunger, Death's Dance and Axiom Arc, and run Conqueror

The rune page they run

Precision

Conqueror

Inspiration

Shards

1,048 games ran this page exactly as it is drawn. We never stitch the most picked keystone onto the most picked second row and call it a page: nobody ran that one.

The skill path Each filled cell is the skill most players took at that level, from 329 games.
skill	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Q	Q			Q	Q		Q		Q
W			W											W	W		W	W
E		E						E		E		E	E
R						R					R					R

Levels 10 to 18

10 E, 11 R, 12 E, 13 E, 14 W, 15 W, 16 R, 17 W, 18 W

Max Q, then E, then W. The level by level count.

109 games finished this exact set. It is the set recorded most often, which is a fact about players rather than about the items.

Share of those games that were wins, in percent 60.6% (range 51.2-69.2) · 109 games · Measured

Games that finish a build are games that lasted, and lasting usually means winning, so this figure leans high before the items do anything. It is how those games went, not what the build does to your chances. How far that can bend a number.

Riven top is the role with the most recorded games on patch 16.14: 1,290 games, of which 639 were wins. That is the role this page leads with. Measured on this page: top, mid, jungle and bot, the roles that cleared 30 recorded games.

wins 0.2 per 100 vs the top average · 1,290 games on 16.14 · first-time players measured (1,044 games) · no clear move vs 16.13 (-6.0, range -18.8 to +6.8)

The build above is the one recorded most often, nothing more. Every recorded build, with its own games and its own share, is in the build list, in the order players built them.

Why this answer

A champion and role pair needs 30 recorded games before we put a score or a win impact on it: under that, a handful of lucky games moves a win rate by ten points. The same floor applies to a single build and to a single rune page, and anything under it prints its games and no number.

The share on that figure says how the games went, not what the build does to you. Nothing on this page measures that; the method note at the end says why.

What do most Riven players build?

Item sets recorded on patch 16.14, most built first, never sorted by how the games went. The share is how many of a build's own games were wins; a build under 30 games shows its games and no share.

Riven, top

8 item sets were recorded in this role and 3 of them cleared 30 games.

Endless Hunger, Death's Dance and Axiom Arc
60.6% 109 games
Endless Hunger, Maw of Malmortius, Death's Dance and Axiom Arc
70.3% 37 games
Endless Hunger, Death's Dance and Eclipse
55.6% 36 games

A finished set is read at the end of the game, so every share here leans high: games that last long enough to finish a build are usually games that were already going well. How far that can bend a number.

Riven, mid

8 item sets were recorded in this role and 2 of them cleared 30 games.

Endless Hunger, Umbral Glaive and Death's Dance
60.0% 60 games
Endless Hunger, Death's Dance and Axiom Arc
48.8% 43 games

Riven, jungle

0 item sets were recorded in this role and 0 of them cleared 30 games.

No jungle build recorded yet

We have 105 games of Riven jungle on patch 16.14, but no item set repeated often enough to record as a build.

Read the rune pages instead

Riven, bot

0 item sets were recorded in this role and 0 of them cleared 30 games.

No bot build recorded yet

We have 33 games of Riven bot on patch 16.14, but no item set repeated often enough to record as a build.

Read the rune pages instead

What runes do most Riven players run?

Whole pages that players actually ran, most recorded first. A page is locked in at champion select, so long games do not inflate its share the way they inflate a build's; it still counts who picked the page rather than what the page did.

Riven, top

6 complete pages were recorded in this role and 3 of them cleared 30 games.

Conqueror Precision with Inspiration

1,048 games

Precision

Conqueror

Inspiration

Shards

1,048 games ran this page exactly as it is drawn. We never stitch the most picked keystone onto the most picked second row and call it a page: nobody ran that one.

Other pages players ran

Conqueror Precision with Sorcery

120 games

Conqueror Precision with Resolve

113 games

Keystones picked, one slot on its own

Conqueror: 49.7% 1,282 games

3 keystones were recorded in this role: one slot on its own, counted across every page that used it, so the share carries the rest of each page with it.

Riven, mid

5 complete pages were recorded in this role and 1 of them cleared 30 games.

Conqueror Precision with Inspiration

558 games

Precision

Conqueror

Inspiration

Shards

558 games ran this page exactly as it is drawn. We never stitch the most picked keystone onto the most picked second row and call it a page: nobody ran that one.

Keystones picked, one slot on its own

Conqueror: 50.7% 600 games

3 keystones were recorded in this role: one slot on its own, counted across every page that used it, so the share carries the rest of each page with it.

Riven, jungle

3 complete pages were recorded in this role and 1 of them cleared 30 games.

Conqueror Precision with Inspiration

95 games

Precision

Conqueror

Inspiration

Shards

95 games ran this page exactly as it is drawn. We never stitch the most picked keystone onto the most picked second row and call it a page: nobody ran that one.

Keystones picked, one slot on its own

Conqueror: 51.9% 104 games

1 keystones were recorded in this role: one slot on its own, counted across every page that used it, so the share carries the rest of each page with it.

Riven, bot

2 complete pages were recorded in this role and 0 of them cleared 30 games.

Conqueror Precision with Inspiration

not enough games yet. 29 games so far, this needs 30. 29 games

Precision

Conqueror

Inspiration

Shards

29 games ran this page exactly as it is drawn. We never stitch the most picked keystone onto the most picked second row and call it a page: nobody ran that one.

Other pages players ran

Conqueror Precision with Sorcery

not enough games yet. 4 games so far, this needs 30. 4 games

Keystones picked, one slot on its own

Conqueror: 50.0% 34 games

1 keystones were recorded in this role: one slot on its own, counted across every page that used it, so the share carries the rest of each page with it.

What skill order should I use?

Counted from recorded level-ups on patch 16.14, one player per game.

Max Q, then E, then W

329 recorded games on patch 16.14.

Riven top skill path Each filled cell is the skill most players took at that level, from 329 games.
skill	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Q	Q			Q	Q		Q		Q
W			W											W	W		W	W
E		E						E		E		E	E
R						R					R					R

Levels 10 to 18

10 E, 11 R, 12 E, 13 E, 14 W, 15 W, 16 R, 17 W, 18 W

Max Q, then E, then W

185 recorded games on patch 16.14.

Riven mid skill path Each filled cell is the skill most players took at that level, from 185 games.
skill	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Q	Q			Q	Q		Q		Q
W			W											W	W		W	W
E		E						E		E		E	E
R						R					R					R

Levels 10 to 18

10 E, 11 R, 12 E, 13 E, 14 W, 15 W, 16 R, 17 W, 18 W

Riven, jungle

Not enough jungle level-ups yet

not enough games yet. 29 games so far, this needs 30.

Riven jungle has 105 games recorded, but only 29 games of them carry level-ups. A levelling order off that many games is luck.

How we count level-ups

Riven, bot

Not enough bot level-ups yet

not enough games yet. 9 games so far, this needs 30.

Riven bot has 33 games recorded, but only 9 games of them carry level-ups. A levelling order off that many games is luck.

How we count level-ups

When do players buy each piece?

The pieces of the most recorded Riven top build, in the order players buy them. The time is the middle of the spread across every recorded game on patch 16.14, measured at the buy rather than at the end of the game: half the recorded buys of the item happen before it, half after.

Buy times, earliest first

Axiom Arc: 17:11 454 games
Endless Hunger: 24:30 330 games
Death's Dance: 25:04 1,079 games

The bar is scaled to the latest piece of the set. Each item links to its own page, where the whole spread sits beside the games behind it.

Who counters Riven?

The opponents Riven top loses to most and the teammates Riven gains the most beside on patch 16.14. The chip is the edge in wins per 100 games, and the games behind it sit under the name.

Hardest opponents

103 more opponents sit under 50 games against Riven and are counted, not ranked. Every measured Riven opponent, with the full table

Best teammates

Every measured Riven teammate, with the full table

These numbers come from 108,616 ranked games we recorded on EUW, Korea and NA, found by following Diamond players and the people they play with. That is not every rank and it is not every region. Everything on this page is patch 16.14. Counted up to 24 July 2026.

How does Riven rank?

Every role we recorded Riven in on patch 16.14, scored or not. Win impact is measured against the average pick in that role on the same patch, and a role needs 30 recorded games before it is scored.

Riven by role

top B -0.2 wins per 100 games (range -1.9 to 1.5) 1,290 games Pooled: 48 1,290 games
mid B +0.2 wins per 100 games (range -1.8 to 2.1) 620 games Pooled: 49 620 games
jungle C +0.1 wins per 100 games (range -2.0 to 2.3) 105 games Pooled: 46 105 games
bot C 0.0 wins per 100 games (range -2.1 to 2.2) 33 games Pooled: 45 33 games
support not enough games yet. 2 games so far, this needs 30.: not scored 2 games

Why no share of wins on this page says a build is good for Riven

A finished item set is read at the end of the game. A player who bought the first two items and lost at twenty minutes never finished the set, so they are not in its row. Everybody in the row lasted long enough to buy it, and lasting is most of what winning looks like. The share those games won is pushed up by that on its own, before the items do anything at all, and the push is largest on the most expensive builds and backwards on the ones you buy when a game is going badly.

We know the size of it. In simulation, with every item's real effect set to exactly zero, an item read at the end of the game shows about 92% as a sixth completed item. A defensive item with a real 5 point benefit shows about 20 points the wrong way, because it gets bought when a player is behind. The measurement is here.

So this page counts and labels rather than ranks. The estimate that answers the real question is taken at the moment of the buy, from the state the purchase happened in, and it runs in the desktop app because it needs the game in front of it.