Talk:Riven/@comment-25337957-20150814192555/@comment-26899525-20150817130913

There's a few reasons why and a comeback point for every point you made.

You mentioned Jax - he has a lot of reasons to be chosen over Riven despite his weaker early game. He's quite safe to towerdives in comparison to Riven as he's also quite mobile but much more innately tanky through his base stats, ult and counter-strike dodge. He's also one of the best towerkillers/splitpushers in the game, something Riven doesn't come close to being as good at. So, Jax is tankier, less vulnerable to towerdives and being camped (yes, Riven has mobility, but she's feast or famine and squishier, so getting ganked hurts her a lot more) and he's a splitpushing monster who can reliably dive a carry in a teamfight even without Flash, while Riven has a harder time doing so.

Saying some Marksmen can be as feast or famine as Riven isn't as prevalent as they have a support and they're ranged, not much more to that honestly.

Aside from your points, generally speaking Riven is a feast or famine carry who can be kited/shut down quite hard in LCS. There are always far more reliable carries than Riven if you're going for a carry top laner, such as Irelia (very hard to shut down, powerspikes hard at Triforce and very tanky late) Hecarim (unmatched roaming power and snowballs almost as hard as Riven does while being faster, better teamfighter and tankier) and even odd carry picks such as Jarvan IV & Cassiopeia serve a tonne of uses that Riven can't.

Despite all of this, Riven's still frequently picked by a few top laners (Fnatic and a few LPL/LCK teams) because she can really get rolling.. well, you know her strengths. She's still used sometimes it's just that other team comps can be complimented moreso from other carry tops.