User blog comment:Care Level/RE: PBE Riven Nerf/@comment-4503725-20131221154635

Every time you said "...and now Riven can no longer do this" or "...now such and such is no longer viable" You were listing things that made her broken as all F*ck-out. Certain paths are now less viable. That's what a nerf is designed to do - make things less powerful. You seem to think that just because something is now less powerful than before it is therefore altogether worthless; not so. Instead of adjusting to the changes you are already crying foul with clumsy theorycrafting based on numbers and very little actual gameplay. You don't have to only max Q first now. You can still max whatever you want, but it's going to be less powerful - as was intended. Less powerful =\= completely worthless. The desperation to find a way to keep an overly strong champ overly strong is totally palpable. Honestly if this makes Riven stop being a "every game or BAN" champ, then so be it. I don't like for champs to be 'unplayable' (champs being unplayable is another opinion) but if that is the price for her to someday be fixed.