i think i finally found out the problem with riven

she has way too many build paths. there's not a single fighter item that doesn't give attack speed she can't buy. here's a list of the different build paths she can take.

crit ( and ) lifesteal ( , and ) armor pen/lethality ( , , , and sometimes )

her cooldowns are also extremely low considering no matter what build path she takes, she can easily get 40% cdr since all her builds consist of items such as: , , and , and if she doesn't get enough CDR from items, she's gonna get it from runes. (cosmic insight and scaling cdr stat).

considering riven is a "high skill cap champion", her skills are misused sometimes by even the best riven players, but her seriously quick potential to get max cdr + her really low ability cooldowns, she barely gets punished for missing a w or being too far away on her last q.

i think riot can fix this by possibly reworking her passive, making it rare for her to pick items such as crit strike items and duskblade.

tl;dr: riven can build too many items, rework her passive to fix maybe