Talk:Riven/@comment-5077844-20141102214444/@comment-24073465-20141109155004

When it comes to Riven's shield, the problem I have isn't with the dash or the shield strength...it's with the cooldown...looking how most Rivens play comparitively safely during lane phase due to the high cooldown of the shield....however, once they have about 25% CDR (Brutalizer+CDR boots), the CDR decreases quite a bit, which allows for a comparitive high spam. With those two items, the effective CD of the shield becomes 4.5 seconds...since I see many Rivens also run more CDR via masteries or runes, hitting 35-40% by mid is easy, causing a shield to be up about every 3.6 seconds. Considering such a low cooldown, she can effectively run away from bad scenarios or block killing blows (ignite, DOTs, that ONE skillshot, etc), or close distance very easily. In TF, with a 3.6 second cooldown, she can effectively cast it 2-3 times in the fight (especially if she casts it in the beginning of the TF itself), leading to an effective shield of 630(+300% bonus AD) [420 (+200% bonus AD) if she only casts it twice]. Given how a Riven's bonus AD, with her bonus AD steroid, can go up to 200+, you're looking at effectively about 800-1000 in shield, which REALLY blows in taking down a "squishy"....

There are a couple of other problems I see, but those are less with Riven herself, and more with the items, especially the goddamn Last Whisper rushing nowadays....