Talk:Riven/@comment-3546228-20141219013244/@comment-6061249-20141221113307

She is smashable early, and that's basically the way to win against her - win early and don't screw up until laning ends, and watch her doing nothing over the whole match.

She still has poor sustain. Everyone can start with lots of potions too (and IMO this is how every toplaner should start rather than wasting gold on Doran).

Brutalizer... countering armor? Holy moly, man. The best counter to Brutalizer is any armor item. Any. Flat armor penetration is great on targets with low armor, while it makes almost no difference when the output is, for example, 80 armor instead of 90. Heck even Tabis will make your life a lot easier against Brutalizer rushing ones.

I honestly can't understand why is she considered as hard to play. She needs good timing, nothing else. All other things are plain easy.

The already mentioned bullies - Darius, Pantheon and Renekton - can win such lane pretty easily early on, and then after 6, you only need not to get into nonsense fights. Keep poking and trading until she's on low health, then you may fight. Also, they don't scale terribly, you just need to have a balanced build between defenses and damage, you'll be able to stand a lot of harm while still shredding squishies easily, especially Pantheon, which can completely remove enemy ADC / APC in one combo.