for me its different every time, but a few things renain the same.
If you want the drop to have force, you can use just a few hits' worth of quiet before it hits.
Kick rushing is getting a bit meh but a classic style if you can think of anything else that works.
lowpassing your drums and gradually bringing them up is another classic.
Free analog synths (like
Elek7ro) are nice in creating simple risers - use a large glide and monophony, and make notes that are always higher than the last one and overlapping each other.
Speeding up an LFO on a pad/lead sound is cool.
And one more nice trick: reverse a sound you have in the track, apply a huge reverb to it with 0% dry sound and reverse that. Nice little rise isnt it.