Talk:Riven/@comment-3460935-20160915015410/@comment-4834593-20161005194514

Wow. You can't read. It would indeed be a very bad idea to make an AoE execute scale with 75% of missing health (heck, it would mean it would kill everyone from 40% health, not counting any base damage or anything), but it doesn't do that. It deals damage, which is increased if the enemy is missing health, and it deals max damage (three times it's base damage) when the enemy is missing 75% of his health. It only scales with itself, but it scales up to missing 75% health.

Anyways, the Kassadin of top? Kassadin is far worse, because he has a flash on a 6 second cooldown (or something like that; lower endgame), and burst on top of that. Yes, Riven has huge burst too if you cancel your animations, but if you want to do what Kassadin does while playing Riven, you have to actually burn your flash to do it. Not to mention that you leave yourself open to counterattack because you just used your flash and dashes to explode someone.

At the moment, Riven is quite neatly balanced, having both losing matchups (Irelia, Yorick, good Fiora, Gnar) and winning matchups (your average Yasuo, Mundo, well there's a few more but I'm just gonna say right here this list is causing me more trouble than the losing matchups list), and the later in the game she's strong if she can get to the squishy backline or is allowed to splitpush. However, crowdcontrol heavy comps (think of a Sejuani jungle + Alistar support or something like that) render her useless in teamfights on top of typically being good at forcing said teamfights, which means Riven can't just continue splitting. Also, a select few champions (like Fiora or Vayne) can hold a sidelane against Riven 1v1 at any point in the game without Riven having kill pressure (this does require a competent player on said champion), even forcing her off. Only in the very lategame, where Riven can afford a GA and enough life steal to actually be a tanky champion, she is, in my opinion, above everyone else no matter what.

Heck, to illustrate it, most of the game I can do on Malphite what I can do on Riven, in terms of map pressure, kills, etc. Only after the 4 item threshold does Riven really scale ahead (and she doesn't bring as much tankyness; she only scales ahead because low gold is too stupid to fight back while the tank is soaking up damage).