Talk:Riven/@comment-23835547-20131222151150/@comment-1330314-20131223042550

The problem with her isn't her costless abilities; a lot of top champions are manaless, and some of them, like, and , even have inbuilt sustain, allowing them to potentially stay indefinitely in lane. Her problem is mainly that her early game is overwhelmingly strong, and that past that it's very easy for her to snowball and reach melee carry levels of damage output. Other melee carries like and  have their godly late game balanced by a weak early game, whereas she does not. The nerfs Riot are planning to give her look focused on her shield (whose duration they're reducing) and her Q damage, which they're significantly nerfing at early ranks and slightly nerfing later in the game.