Talk:Riven/@comment-9775822-20151124145452/@comment-26203093-20151204140308

Last whisper used to be core AD casters as a way of staying on curve like an ADC would by getting crit. It now only affect bonus armour. It means it's not an all purpose late game item, but an anti tank item, which throws riven under the bus when combined with the cost efficiency pushed away from AD over to crit.

You basically can't build her assassin any more - even though youmuus grants 20 arp and more AD than ever, it's not as cost efficient. The maw of malmortius change is both awful and great at the same time - The drop in AD and shield change is basically a nerf, since the AD would've granted her the extra survivability via her shield that the lifesteal and spell vamp is supposed to grant.

Basically, the main issue is her power is so entirely pushed into AD and nothing else - including arp (because of her shield) and cdr (high ad scaling, low base) - that the overall value reduction and cost increase on the AD items screws her over more than most.

Plus, this patch is still an ungodly mess. People might still be struggling to figure things out, and keeping to old builds that don't work any more, or simply build shit in the wrong order out of habit - even in ranked.