Talk:Riven/@comment-24385282-20160217031339/@comment-24385282-20160219024243

It's not a nerf at all, but a change. The shield amount is much more powerful early but requires better timing and doesn't work well against DoTs unil level 2. Even at higher levels, the shield doesn't get weaker until you have - that's at at least 3 items (no combination of runes, masteries, and items allows you to get  with only 2 items to my knowledge), or more if you get a tankier item such as  early on, and doesn't take boots into account.

Shield amount-wise, I wouldn't call it a nerf if even in a standard Riven game you might not feel its effects until you have 5 items. Duration-wise, it's a bit heavy early on but it's a decent buff at max rank. I could have it scale harder, but I think the rank one duration should be below 1 second if possible, simply so it won't block 2 ticks of DoTs. Currently, can block two ticks of  at level 1, which can allow her to survive some annoyingly cheesy early First Bloods even when Riven's enemy took Ignite and she didn't (get level 2 from the kill, rank shield to block nearly half of Ignite's damage).