How does Riven stack up to Riot's design philosophy?
When Riot did the Dawnbringer Skin for Riven the mentioned some changes that were made to her Rig and Animation. I was wondering how would they grade Riven's current design against what they use now?
Theme Art Animation Gameplay Story
Theme - Pathetic theme aimed for weebs I guess
Art - AWFUL, DISGUSTING one of the ugliest champions in the game
Animation - BROKEN, she can use like 5 skills almost at once, leaving you NO chance to fight back
Gameplay - Oh here is where it gets good, she's a bruiser AOE CC assassin, with the best all in and snowball potential, best level 6 powerspike in the game and itemization that fits her PERFECTLY (it's like the whole BC / DD/ Ghostblade / Duskblade were designed specifically for her). In lane she is absolutely most toxic champion you could face simply because of her ability to dictate the trading terms with several different combos depending on the match up all Riven OTPs learn and then think they are special for beating a champion that can't even fight back due to limitations in their kit and absurdities in Riven's.
She can't be punished by the better player simply because she's Riven, there are absolutely no counterpicks for her either. You can pick champions like Maokai who will stall her out but Maokai is not a champion that can BEAT her, NOTHING can beat her.
She can engage you from a screen away to assist her jungler too, while using the full power of her two aoe CC abilities. That makes her THE BEST at setting up ganks in top lane, infinitely better than Renekton for example (who is hailed as one of the best, but I just don't see it) since Renekton pushes with his Q trading or else he gets killed.
Her animations are way too smooth, her AA cancelling is a bug turned feature, she has no weakness, can't be shut down, and is overall a SUPER TOXIC ANTI-FUN champion to face even if you're beating her you don't feel good and losing to her just feels AWFUL like you lost because of the champion not the player.
Story - Can't comment on this one, something about broken blade yadda yadda ... Yeah it's indeed a BROKEN Blade.
EDIT : For my opinions about Riven straight after I play a game with her in the enemy team see : https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/gameplay-balance/O8EJct4p-how-do-you-kill-a-riven-1v1
Frustrating to play against for most non-tank melees, but really not that much of an issue.
Her theme is fine
Her art is fine, probably like one of the more popular champs out there in the shady sites I bet (Kappa)
animations are fine
Story maybe could be updated or something but who cares it's fine enough.
Someone pointed out some of her theme seemed to be applied to darius's recent update so things are getting muddled as a result
Splash are and out of game design seems pretty good in my opinion, however with Dawnbringer, it seems here in game art and rig is out of date.
Same can be said about her animations (changed some animations with dawnbringer)
Gameplaywise not sure if she were to be made today she would be up to standard (maybe a certaint champ?)
