Talk:Riven/@comment-24023648-20131122221850

I see a lot of people are complaining that Riven is a bit off the charts. They say she has too much damage output, mobility, absorb and too low spell cds. In fact all those stats are mediocre on Riven, what makes her so strong is that she has all of them at the same time. Because of that she can easily make nice trades with her opponent in lane, move fast on the map through the repeatedly free use of her dashes, assassinate targets and survive and even outplay more enemies at the same time. No matter what situation, no matter how much harass she ate, she can always make use of her full combo without regrets.

What I propose it's a limitation to her combo, hell yeah, a resource bar. But not a mana bar of course, there are enough arguments posted here to completely invalidate such an idea. She needs a specific & unique resource like a lot other champions have.

I know, a wall of text containing 0 original ideas. Just wanted to state the obvious from my POV.

Now my suggestion would be: 1 resource bar - 3 identical segments that would represent 3 identical... runes let's call them. The activation of Q, W & E would cost for each one rune. We'll have this possible combos: 3xQ, W+Q+E etc. avaible at full bar. Each rune will recharge independently in 5s. In addition, R activation will grant Riven a 4th full-charged rune for the duration of its passive effect so she retains the bursting potential of 3xQ & W if she chooses to activate her ulti from the start of the fight.

This resource system aims at decreasing her 'faceroll' potential, promoting more calculated moves and granting her lane opponents a better chance to retaliate against her trades, while not hurting any of her general aspects.

Notes: I think of 5s rune recharge as optimal, cause you'll also need to make use of her passive within or after her 3spells combo. Also, if you have activated Q only once in the engaging combo, you can still time it so you'll be able to use its reactivations after your runes recharge (but in this situation you can't initiate with Q cause of the 4s countdown). While having the 4th rune (for the duration of her ulti), the delay caused by the recharging runes should become unnoticeable, if none at all. And when her steroid fades, she should retain the 'most charged' runes so she won't lost a full charged rune in favor to charging runes.