Riven and Yasuo Interactions
Riven has 56 lines about Yasuo, and Yasuo answers with 66. They're grouped below by what sets each one off, with both sides together.
First encounter
Riven to Yasuo
Dawnbringer: Taunt › First Encounter with Nightbringer Yasuo
- "You wander, lost in your own darkness."
- Riven: "The sword outwears the sheath."
- Yasuo: "And the soul wears out the breast."
- Riven: "How should I greet thee?"
- Yasuo: "With silence and tears."
Yasuo to Riven
First Encounter › First Encounter with Riven
- "You can't run from yourself, Riven... I've tried."
- "Broken sword. Broken spirit."
- "Everyone faces a reckoning, Riven."
- "Which weighs more, Riven? Your blade, or your past?"
- "Huh, three swift strikes..."
- "Wait, that technique... huh."
- "Another wind blade?"
- "Who taught you that?"
Nightbringer: First Encounter › First Encounter with Dawnbringer Riven
- "Without your wings, think what might have been."
- "Follow your path and it will break you."
- "You hide your true self behind a mask of perfection."
- "Let us dance, angel."
- "You are... dangerous. But I am... more."
- "Can your wings bear you above your denial?"
- "Without me, your existence is meaningless."
- "Our conflict is the crucible of reality."
- "Only a coward clings to tranquil dreams."
- Yasuo: "How should I greet thee?"
- Riven: "With silence and tears."
- Yasuo: "We are not meant for perfection, angel."
- Riven: "I will live. You will kneel."
- Yasuo: "No. You will break."
- Yasuo: "You and I are from a time before memory."
- Riven: "A memory is all you will be."
Kills
Riven to Yasuo
Dawnbringer: Kills and Objectives › Killing Nightbringer Yasuo
- "How bright is darkness?"
- "Colder thy kiss."
- "'Tis time this heart should be unmoved."
- "Eternal night fades before me."
- "Fear has betrayed you."
- "Why seek me if you didn't wish to be made whole?"
- "They know not I knew thee, who knew thee too well."
- "Is not the past all shadow?"
- "Know your enemy, know their blade."
- "Those who live in shadow cannot dream of light."
- "Chaos into order. Motion into stillness."
Yasuo to Riven
Nightbringer: Kills and Objectives › Killing Dawnbringer Riven
- "Conviction has betrayed you."
- "If you weren't made for destruction, why do you break so easily?"
- "Long, long shall I rue thee, too deeply to tell."
- "'Tis time the heart should be unmoved."
- "In the end, light always succumbs to darkness."
- "Those who live in shadow cannot dream of light."
- "Know your enemy, know their blade."
- "Better broken than too perfect to live."
- "So writhes the mind, remorse hath riven."
- "Your truth shatters so easily."
- "Pale grew thy cheek, and cold."
Taunts
Riven to Yasuo
Dawnbringer: Taunt › Taunt Response to Nightbringer Yasuo
- "What is chaos but a plea for order?"
Yasuo to Riven
Nightbringer: Taunt › Taunt Response to Enemy Dawnbringer Riven
- "What is order but a blade most dull?"
Attacks
Riven to Yasuo
Dawnbringer: Attack › Attacking › Attacking Nightbringer Yasuo
- "Flee, fiend."
- "Do not test me, demon."
- "You fear dependence. You fear love."
- "You mistake chaos for freedom."
- "You need me."
- "Your chaos is... ill-considered."
- "You abandoned your soul... for darkness."
- "What is broken will reform."
- "Yours is a hopeless eternity."
- "Discord will be bound in harmony."
Yasuo to Riven
Nightbringer: Attack › Attacking › Attacking Dawnbringer Riven
- "Your demons reside in the dark!"
- "It's not wings you offer, but shackles!"
- "When will you give up, angel?"
- "Perfection is the cruelest lie."
- "Chaos will clip your wings."
- "Let go of your perfection!"
- "You are blinded by your own light!"
- "Chaos does not bind, it frees."
- "Truth offers no comfort in death!"
- "You need the dark."
- "You mistake Light for truth."
- "Admit it, my freedom terrifies you."
Moving and idling
Riven to Yasuo
Dawnbringer: Movement › First Move › First Move with Ally Nightbringer Yasuo
- "Order and chaos... aligned?"
- "The universe is unbalanced."
Dawnbringer: Movement › First Move › First Move with Enemy Nightbringer Yasuo
- Riven: "Demon, the time is upon us."
- Yasuo: "I am waiting."
- Riven: "The world waits for our blades to meet."
- Yasuo: "They will wait no longer."
- Riven: "The Light-"
- Yasuo: "- is defined by darkness."
- Riven: "Leave me, demon."
- Riven: "From nothing, there will always come two."
- Yasuo: "I am here."
- "Your true self hides behind a wall of anguish."
- "Our conflict is the crucible of existence."
- "You are... dangerous, but I am more."
- "You cower in darkness."
- "Can your flames burn away your fear?"
- "Let us dance, demon."
- "Your freedom is meaningless without me."
- "The Light reveals the limits of darkness."
- Riven: "It is time."
- Yasuo: "You and I are from a time before memory."
- Riven: "A memory is all you will be."
- Yasuo: "We are not meant for perfection, angel."
- Riven: "I will live. You will kneel."
- Yasuo: "No. You will break."
Yasuo to Riven
Nightbringer: Movement › First Move › First Move with Ally Dawnbringer Riven
- "The universe is unbalanced."
- "Order and chaos, aligned?"
Nightbringer: Movement › First Move › First Move with Enemy Dawnbringer Riven
- Yasuo: "Darkness-"
- Riven: "- gives form to the Light."
- Yasuo: "My thoughts are my own."
- Yasuo: "Darkness-"
- Riven: "- gives form to the Light."
- Yasuo: "Get out of my head!"
- Yasuo: "Angel. The time is upon us."
- Riven: "I am waiting."
- Yasuo: "The world waits for our blades to meet."
- Riven: "They will wait no longer."
- Yasuo: "From nothing, there will always come two."
- Riven: "I am here."
Death and respawn
Riven to Yasuo
Dawnbringer: Death › Respawn after dying to Nightbringer Yasuo
- "Darkness has led me astray... he will pay."
- "This is not over."
- "We will meet again."
- "Chaos divides us only for a moment."
Yasuo to Riven
Nightbringer: Death › Respawn after dying to Dawnbringer Riven
- "She will pay."
- "We will meet again."
- "This is not over."
- "Order's hold is only temporary."
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Every line is quoted as the wiki transcribes it. Voice lines belong to Riot Games.
Riven's lines are licensed CC BY-SA 3.0, from the League of Legends Wiki's revision 3931774 (July 17, 2025).
Yasuo's lines are licensed CC BY-SA 3.0, from the League of Legends Wiki's revision 4002106 (March 23, 2026).