When you go against a Riven, get destroyed because riven and you out of curiosity go and check there match histories and such. What do you find? Plat and almost diamond (or perhaps already diamond in some cases) with nothing but Riven games played one and EVERY SINGLE NON-RIVEN GAME was a crushing and embarrassing loss.
sigh ._. . . . . Riven mains.
They ruin the balance and peace of the game I tell you.
"get destroyed because riven" nah, you got destroyed because you, not because riven.
Another thread that doesn't understand low skill floor but high skill ceiling /facepalm. Please tell me you're trolling.
Every single aspect of riven's kit is interact able. All of her abilities are skillshots, they can all miss or be dodged. She's not pantheon with a point and click ranged spear for harass on low cd and a point and click stun and one non point and click skill that's only used when they're stunned anyways.
Anyone who fights riven can outplay her by the nature of her kit. In exchange, she has tools to survive bad lanes or falling behind such as her shield and waveclear to farm under turret, and a close range stun to deter dives.
You know what her kit does, you know what her skills are and you should have an idea of what kind of combos she wants to use.
At the very least you can count and know that her third q is the hopping knockup one. It is telegraphed by the 2 qs preceding it, and has a longer animation. Any cc or knockback on her during this animation will fizzle her q leaving her not only without it's damage and the empowered auto she would have hit you with during the knockup, but giving you a chance to get free damage on her that's guaranteed to not be shielded.
You know that her shield has a decent cooldown early game and only lasts for a second so if your ranged harass has a shorter than ~10 second cooldown you know that if you use it on her and she shields it then you can use it on her again on cooldown for either free damage, to force her to try and trade with you when she has no shield up, or to zone her from the minion wave until she has her shield back.
You know that she probably wants to go on you, so position yourself where you know she'll jump on you right when the jungler comes. Her mobility doubles as her damage, so she'll be boned.
If you dance around on the outside edge of her range you can bait her into going in on you and then back off. She'll have wasted one or two spells just to close the gap and will have to get zoned from the wave now because she's worthless without cooldowns.
In a fight, you know that she wants to windslash you at low hp, so you can save something like a fizz e or diana ult or something to dodge it when you feel like its probably going to come at you, and avoid a lot of her damage that way.
She already has counterplay woven into her kit. She's not a ball of stats. Therefor (amoung other reasons) she won't be getting a rework - or at least if she ever does it will be completely different from darius/garen/skarner/mord and for different reasons entirely.
