User blog comment:Care Level/Quality of Life: Riven and Nidalee/@comment-4928005-20131021023720

As a Riven player, I agree with you wholeheartedly. One of the core mechanics in League gameplay is mobility, and it's never been Riot's style to make things balanced by emphasizing execution. Everybody playing a champion has the same tools to work with (This includes the self-synergies and tricks in a champion's kit) and the true skill difference is how you use your kit, not whether or not you can use it in the first place.

In the case of Riven's Q, it's not even that she jumps towards her facing. She moves towards your cursor if and only if your cursor happens to be over an enemy unit. The ability itself is inconsistent. Smartcast abilities target your cursor. This is true of any targetable smartcast ability (including other automatic smartcasts, such as Karthus's Lay Waste) save for Broken Wings and Pounce, so it only makes sense that they should be changed to cursor-targetting.

Yes, this makes it far easier to jump over walls, but jumping over walls is hardly anything new to ANY champion in League (Remember our favorite universal cursor-targetted wall jump, AKA Flash? It has a much longer range and therefore far more applicable wall-jump capability than Broken Wings or Pounce in the first place, but flashing over a wall is still a very tense action that even pro players have botched in tournament games.) Riot seems to agree, based on the recent changes that turned the walljump itself from a bug to a consistent feature, so I feel it's just a matter of time before these, too, get fixed.