Talk:Riven/@comment-26135008-20160216180900/@comment-26203093-20160225040812

Wind slash is part of the problem. Executes emphasize assassin playstyles, and when the damage is based on AD, promotes building like an assassin, and assassin's success goes often between extremes, which gets even worse when the assassin in question has low burst mobility (relative to other assassins) but does aoe damage.

what all of that ends up meaning is that she can't jump to her target to delete them like LB, KZ, Rengar, talon, but if she gets close, she doesn't kill just one target - she kills whole teams. Or dies trying (well, who doesn't die trying, but you get my point). This is basically like katarina, except she wins mostly when others fuck up, not when she preforms particularly well.

If they tried converting her further toward fighter and away from assassin, she'd be less sensitive to external balance changes, and more stable in performance overall.