User blog comment:Simbey/Real Talk: Riven/@comment-2112140-20140117182800

Considering Riven builds no damage items, has no runes that boost AD, has no masteries that boost AD, she'll have more base damage and her Q will do more damage at level 5 than before so technically they just nerfed her scaling with items but buffed her lane if she isn't snowballing, so now Riven will do tons of damage when she snowballs and she'll still do good damage even if she doesn't.. And the Valor nerf wasn't as significant..