Talk:Riven/@comment-4915885-20120401230906/@comment-3217613-20120402142500

Same point as Anon.

She's not a true AD carry for the given reasons. Anyways, the "carry" term is starting to get hard to classify. "Carry" tag by itself means that a champion can carry the game past a certain point providing extreme damage compared to others. In the actual meta, this often resides to ranged AD's playing on bot lane, farming like no tomorrow, but it's not restricted to that. Any champion that doesn't fall off lategame could be tagged as a carry.

Her autoattack is insanely strong due her passive, but as other melees, you can't simply go on a full-full dps build and pretend to survive at lategame, because you're probably going to be bursted down before you can reach the target. Riven, however, it's not as much limited as others in that, provided the amazing set of dashes she has.

You can call her a carry because she's still a real terror lategame, but she's not the kind of champ that usually comes to mind when you say a "carry" nowadays. Just because she's much more like an AD caster. But amongst melee's? Yes, probably she's the best melee in terms of carrying a game at late stages. If she's not, she's amongst top 3.