Talk:Riven/@comment-4434378-20120112021906/@comment-4434378-20120112204728

Ranged carries are balanced by their lack of defensive/pure AD steroids (Graves and Sivir have shorter ranges). This means that if they are forced to take focused fire from even one champion they drop at any stage of the game. Take Corki and GP and give them the same amount of gold, Corki will die if he's using a standard carry build.

Riven does have quite the weakness in that she gets screwed over hard if she doesn't build AD, and has to get close. But there are some amazing AD/Tank items (Hexdrinker, Wriggles, Fratma's) and her shield allow her to do well despite this. Trynd is even worse though, since the only defensive item he even needs to consider is QSS.