Talk:Riven/@comment-9775822-20160819025510/@comment-4834593-20160903124803

Now this is a whole lot of comments.

To the OP: You simply beat the crap out of him. If he's close enough to Q you, you're close enough to triple Q him. Worse case you let the autoattack after your third Q slip and use the knockup to back off. By the time you're level 3, you W as soon as he tries to dash close to you, and for the rest you just combo like you would when fighting a jungle creep, because really there's not much more to it when playing against Yasuo, except of course having to be aware of his dashes and making sure you don't dash the wrong way.

I saw some incorrect things about who or what Riven counters by the way. She does not counter autoattackers - for that, we have Malphite and Nasus. Riven counters anything that likes to build damage. It's often the same champions - think Yasuo, Gangplank, Master Yi, etc - but not always - think Volibear, Olaf, etc. This is because a squishy champion allows Riven to bring them into kill range in just one full trade - or, when Riven is ahead, this allows her to 100-0 them. Tanky champions, however, can stand Riven much better because Riven has no sustain whatshowever, while most top laners have at least some sustain, which means Riven loses out on the long term even if the trade looked okay at first.

Also, I want to take away one of the biggest myths there is about who Riven can counter. While she might get some early kills on Nasus, if the Nasus is not totally retarded, he can farm under tower, life steal up what damage he gets, slow Riven, ult when she wants to try something, and within 20 minutes Riven can't handle him anymore if she didn't get stuff elsewhere on the map. On the other hand, she is much more of a Teemo counter than most people realize, because, if you play the early levels carefully, you can close the distance easily, and then Teemo just falls under aforementioned squishy champions and doesn't stand a chance because Riven just 100-0's him.