Talk:Riven/@comment-26066338-20150519174132

Ok guys so I was reading comments and I noticed no one really mentioned the word riot likes to use when they balance people. To me, Rivens main issue is how polarizing she is. There are a lot of champs with this problem, either op as shit or useless. Riven is one of them. Her problem to me is exactly the same as Jinx's. Both of them have polarizing early games (riven easily all ins squishies but gets absolutely fucked by tanks, jinx lands a few skill shots and its done for enemy sup/adc, but can easily have the same to her) BUT, they both have ults that allow them to get really fed off nothing. Both Riven and Jinx have huge AOE executes to finish fights they werent even involved in, so the best of both will recognize counters and play safely early (they both have safe earlies if they want to) and then just ult after any skirmishes happen for kills. I think thats why riot tried to nerf both of their ults. The problem is, they don't want to admit the real issue is that executes that are aoe and have rediculous range are just silly. Executes are fine, even quinns aoe execute is fine, but add in long range executes that are extremely hard to dodge/force summoners? It's kind of silly, and in my opinion, the fair comparison is ezreal. Why isnt Ez's ult an execute? That's what its meant for right? Just take off the execute damage and raise the base damage on jinx and riven ults, so that if anything good happens at all within their vicinity they dont get free snowballing combined with thier safe laning. I don't think this would destroy either of them, it would just change the way their ults work. Instead of saving for a cheesy free kill or summoner, they would both just have to find an opurtune moment to hit as many people as possible, or risk that their cheesy free kill doesnt do enough damage. The way riot currently rebalanced their ults was kinda silly, they just made their ults less reliable, which is not exactly the best thing to do to a kit. By the way I think the energy thing could work too, I just personally believe in finding the root of problems with things and dealing with them directly. Energy would def balance riven, but it seems like the way she is now could be okay if she wasn't so polarizing, just coming from playing her a good bit lately. Then again I'm pretty much bronze/silver so I don't know how much my opinion counts lol