Talk:Riven/@comment-7434112-20140118152608/@comment-9008617-20140120012628

How would that play out?

Riven goes in to attack with shield up and the enemy champ just ignores her for 1.5 seconds while she bursts away?

With the duration nerf, it seems like Riven's shield is meant to be played like Sivir's spellshield (both are 1.5 seconds in duration) except that Riven's is half the CD, blocks more than just spells, and gives Riven mobility. No one's advocating spamming her shield in lane for no reason.

Like I said, if you even trade twice in a minute with her shield on you've recouped the lost hp regen. And since even at lvl 1 rank and zero CDR masteries/runes/items, she can use her shield 6 times per minute for which the shield will be up 9 seconds and down for 51 seconds (i.e. ~20% uptime).

HP regen is only beneficial if you've lost hp anyways which is less of a factor if her level 1 shield now blocks 90 + 100% bonus AD (~30) = ~120 health.

This means it'll require most top laners at least 1 to 2 AA's to break (more if they started with defensive items).

Shield CDR can also be reduced whereas the base health regen doesn't scale.