Talk:Riven/@comment-8733289-20131224042732/@comment-7434112-20140103080419

Q, AA, Q, AA, Q, AA requires some skill in order to carry it out perfectly i.e, cancel the animations of her AA and increase her DPS.

The shield becomes spammable lategame and with a bit of CDR and it ONLY shields her. Every other shield has some other effect it gives (Lee gets lifesteal, spell vamp and the range it can go is Waaaaay more than riven's, Urgot can slow, Janna's AD shield etc.)

AoE melee 0.75 sec stun which also has quite a bit of a CD early game.

2 gap closers, one being her main damage ability. Also, it takes quite a while for her to cover that distance using all of those abilities while its more direct and faster on other champs with 1 single ability.