User blog comment:Akali/Riven's Second Anniversary!/@comment-5557556-20130913194319

Eh, I really don't see a point in this blog but let me add my two cents on Riven.

I was there when she was released. I joined the League when Vayne was released. Riven was so strong back then that it was necesery to reduce that power.

Her innate health regen at level 1 was 10 health per 5. Put 15 per 5 from an old item called Regrowth Pendant and put some from masteries and you get a champion that can outheal even Garen and Mundo.

Everybody used to run old 1350 health Warmog and Force Of Nature which will give her insane regen alone, put Nashor buff over that and you get a champion that can regenarate from 0 to 100 in just a minute.

The only counter to her was to pick a magic damage dealing champion that has good range. Simply because back then Riven's only choice for magic resist items were Force of Nature, Hexdrinker (Maw of malmortius was not present) and Mercury Threads. Forcing her to go all magic resist gave you a chance to take her down since she would then lack armor or burst her down if she took armor route and ignore magic resist.

Then she took some hits on her kit, Q I think and from seeing her in every match, she slowly disappeared.

Her regen and her ability to squeze from any situation were the things that annoyed me the most. I saw too many retarded escapes and too many "saved by the regen" moments. They fixed the regen problem with item deletion and with health regen nerf but the slippery problem is still there. As a matter of fact they enabled her to get over walls.

All in all, she was powerful on release, some nerfs hit her, she is still strong, items removed, people forget about her, insane wall buff, people will again start to play her.