Talk:Riven/@comment-6061249-20150625202909/@comment-24496127-20150626085724

I personally would change her passive, either to not stack, or just make it take some sort of managing since her cd's are low enough that it's kind of just there. I really don't want to change the more complicated parts of Riveen's kit if possible though, although they should be explained somewhere so that it's not something that takes research to learn about.

Aside from that, maybe do something like make her e shield scale with how many enemies are near her.

It could be like 80/100/120/140/160 + 70% AD, but for every enemy champion within X units of the dash, it gains 12 + 10% bonus ad scaling. This would make her weaker early but stronger in teamfights. Obviously the numbers would need to be changed, but at least it's an idea. Her max shield values being 140/160/180/200/220 + 120% bonus AD. Or make the shield scale with level in some way, but I don't see that working well.

A big thing is that there's so many individual things to dislike about Riven that it's pretty hard to find the "main problem" in her kit. It's Lee syndrome, she has a ton of stuff but at the same time could be ruined pretty hard if you take away the wrong thing.

A way of limiting her usage of skills is something that won't happen unless Riot decides to rework her completely, but I feel mana would be clunky on her, and energy could be good, but if it restricts her too much(such as her not being able to QQEQ to gapclose) it would put her to trollpick status.

An idea that I'm sure someone has had but could be interesting is giving her an energy system like Renekton. Don't restrict her usage of abilities, but make them significantly stronger when used once you've built up some sort of resource. It could be Ki or something for instance.

Hm, here's an idea. If Riven screams in all chat for about fifteen minutes, she reaches her maximum Ki power and can now fire a giant orb of deception like projectile that destroys the map, instantly winning the game. While charging she cannot move or cast abilities. Cannot be charged within 3000 units of your base, charge is interrupted by cc or death. Riven's hair turns blonde at end of charge. Also grants instant pentakill, and may or may not lead to a lawsuit. This would really add authenticity to the idea that she uses Ki.

The problem with that is, all the Rivens that lose lane then cry in all chat the rest of the game would end up getting free wins by accident. Oh well, just a suggestion.