Talk:Riven/@comment-4834593-20150113202601/@comment-25115166-20150113215114

What I love about Riven is how easy it is to complain about her kit.

"Damage steroid, AD scaling Shield, AoE stun, Ranged Execute, Mobility and Easy animation cancel". It makes it sound so ludicrously OP and I just love it. I can do this shit with a bottom tier champion like Elise or Urgot and make it sound op too.

People, she's an entirely non-targeted-ability squishy assassin. Wtf do you expect her kit to be like? If half her abilities were targeted (Which would make people stop complaining about her mobility) she'd be absolutely useless since her whole kit resolves around being able to outplay you.

I mean, the champ's based on a very simple principle : If the opponent's better than you, mechanically speaking, he's gonna fuck you up. What the hell is unhealthy about that? I've lost lane to Riven quite a few times, a lot of times while playing champions considered "counters". Sometimes I went on to still win the game, sometimes not. She never made me think "Fuck, I didn't deserve to lose this lane". I was outplayed, and ok with it.

She's an assassin, if you wanna take snowballing away from an assassin, he's gotta get something in return, and we all know how much everyone would cry if Riot buffed her shield or made her innately tankier.