Talk:Riven/@comment-84.251.20.14-20120812220956/@comment-46.61.100.23-20120813203454

Riven is shit versus ranged? What a joke. Sure, you won't shine until level 6 (but you still can deny enemy harass with your shield, unlike Darius), but after that no one can escape. Given that ranged characters are not the tankiest sort, it's even more sad. Without ult Riven already can instantly stun people from 575 range, enabling to do full combo, which pretty much obliterates anyone (compare that to Sion, who has 550 range on his stun and needs a hefty amount of mana, or to Taric, whose stun travels an entire second and who is better off played as support anyway). And then you have the ult, which extends the range of the combo, increases damage by a percentage and has a cooldown as low as 75 seconds at rank 1. Wow.

tl;dr Riven's kit is ridiculous, and nearly impossible to counter outside massive outplaying or camping the lane.