Talk:Riven/@comment-155.69.203.1-20120110173929

Reasons Riven isn't OP: 1) High Skill Cap is parallel to High Potential. It takes skill not to die as Riven in Ranked play; don't act as if you know what that's like, because most likely 9/10 of you here don't. 2) Her Kit is all melee based damage. Hell, if you can harass her in the laning phase with ranged attacks, she can't snowball with the constant threat of low hp and being jumped. 3) Her stun and knockback are very short. She actually has to stop for the stun, making the stun effectively only about .5 seconds. Her knockback cannot be used whenever she likes, as she must hit the third swing of Broken Wings. 4) She has no escape mechanism. CC will allow the enemy to rape her if she can't dash away and shield herself. 5) Her shield isn't as powerful as it seems. Sure, the 1.0 AD ratio seems great as the only AD scaled shield in LoL, but a fed Riven, at the very late game, will only have AD equivalent to half of the AP Casters will have at the time, and their shields scale above 0.5 AP, as well as being able to either cast it on other champions or multiple champions. Her great mobility is A) one of her distinctive features, and B) one of her most useful assets. Many other champions can't keep up with her movements simply because of her ability to jump and dash around; I believe this to be the main cause of what people believe to be her OP feature. Many players don't build survivability due to her ability to escape or turn around a bad situation (refering back to High Skill Cap-High Potential) except for Guardian Angel. If she is rendered unable to complete her ability comboes with hard CC, she can be killed quickly before she can deal even a fraction of her damage. While she is looked at as a whole, and during the game, she will seem OP, but if you compare her to other champions, you'll get a better frame of reference.