Talk:Riven/@comment-77.100.244.225-20120411025847/@comment-62.150.182.177-20120413124001

Unless the Malphite runs a full armor rune page and goes 21 in the defense tree, then he WILL lose lane to Riven. He deals little damage, and riven can just shield through most of it. And if by some miracle he has managed to deal enough damage to Riven, then he is probably already oom by then. He also lacks any form of sustain so Riven can just bully him and zone him out. He has absolutely no say in lane until he hits 6 where he has a chance to kill you with a good gank from the jungle or mid (or if you're stupid enough to sit around with <50% hp).

Malphite counters autoattackers, not AD casters. Sure he might be able to survive after building a chain vest or a frozen heart or something, but a Riven should have a bloodthirster by then (maybe just a bf sword if they did really bad) and a few doran's blades so the Riven will still manage to outsustain him.

But in the end all this is moot seeing as this is a team game and not the 1v1 tutorial map.