Talk:Riven/@comment-15280970-20161008160044

Again early game champions like Riven, elise or jayce are dominating the high ladder. That wouldn't be bad, someone has to be strong, specially in times where safe picks - safe picks in the decent league sense: champions that most of the time do what they are supposed to do,  not in the silver V sense of having ridiculous mobility, like kassadin who is one of the riskiest picks- are also dominating, lets name, Ahri, Jinx, janna.

The problem is, that these early game champions aren't dominating because of their early game advantage. Instead (and itemization has some big fault here) they are good because they are not sucking enough later in the game. To be more clear, it's perfectly OK if Elise does good late game because she did good early game, that's how it is supposed to be: good use of early game advantages fuels late game scaling.

However, most of the times, these champions are just doing meh early game, then proceeding to get fed mid - late game without really being outscaled at all by other champions, which is completely unfair.

If you have all the tools to win your lane, let's say, good base values, high single target damage, decent escapes, and in Riven's case a counterplayless combo included and no resource bar to limit her, and even there you lose your lane, you deserve to suck later in the game.