Talk:Riven/@comment-26370304-20150507112013/@comment-14081808-20150511054945

@Bearizm

First of all, the argument of "Don't get rid of AA cancel because they'll have to re-make her Q" is stupid. The whole problem with AA cancelation was that it was a sort of hidden trick that unleashed a stupid amount of DPS. Pros hate it, noobs hate it. It's what blows you up in the first place and makes you hate Riven to begin with. Getting rid of AA cancelation would force her back into what she was intended to be: a fighter, not the assassination curbstomp that she is by lowering her DPS (not her actual damage, just how fast she puts it out) and making her fight longer to secure the kill. Her Q is not her primary source of damage. Her primary source of damage is her passive which via Q combined with AA cancelling allows her to melt the pretty face off of whoever is in her way.

Second, her shield isn't as broken as you think it is and has a considerable weakness that other shield users tend to not have: you MUST be able to move to use it, which means the only CC that doesn't stop her shield from coming up is... Slow. If shield + movement was broken, then Karma would be OP as hell, giving a teamwide shield and significant MS boost on par with Talisman of Ascension that *gasp* also scales with her primary scaling stat: AP. But you really don't want to mess with her shield. Why? Because you want her to be a fighter, not an assassin, and taking away from her shield (replacing AD ratio with AP ratio) is only going to encourage her to receive more damage to compensate. If you take away her defense, then in the world of "kill or be killed", the balance team has to give her more damage so that she has a chance of getting her opponent before her opponent gets her.