Talk:Riven/@comment-25532677-20150929170916

There's a lot of talk about Riven being too strong and whatnot so I decided I might as well drop my two-bits.


 * So there's a thing that I like to call "Mechanical advantage" and basically it goes as such; As a champion's kit becomes more flexible in it's terms of use and adaptive to the current meta of the >Current match< you are playing, the stronger that chapion potentially is at a whole. To give an example of this one can compare Janna to soraka.


 * Soraka's kit offers does not offer flexibility as with how you may use it. Your Q has two practical uses, damage the enemy whilst slowing them and healing yourself. Your W has one practical use, to heal ally units. Your E offers one practical use, to zone enemies off whilst silencing and rooting enemies that stay within it. Her R has one practical use, To remove greivous wounds and providing a global heal.


 * Janna's kit offers more flexibility as how one may use some of her spells. Her Q may be used to peel off enemies attackign your allies, or may be used to surprise attack by charging it up and providing a powerful knockup. Her W she may choose between slowing a singular target or using the extra speed she has to run ahead of her team in order to provide speed for them. Her E has one practical use which is to provide a mixture of defense and offense in the form of a shield. Her ult has many uses, she may use it to push enemies off of your team, in order to provide a moment of escape, or even push them into your team to put them in an unfavorable position, or may just be used to provide a moment of sanctity as your team gains HP, allowing to press on the attack.


 * This is not to say one champion is stronger than the other, it's to say that when a champion's kit is more flexible, they are potentially more beneficial than a champion that can only do one thing. To counter soraka you simply know to apply grievous wounds and focus her down since she runs out of health easily, and her kit does not offer her much defense. As for Janna, it is harder to build against her since she can adapt to various forms of play thanks to her kit allowing not only for variety in how it may be used, but also a generous build path.


 * So what I'm getting at is I don't think Riven is truly overpowered, I think this is just a rebutal of an archaic mechical system that a lot of champions suffer.