Riven [A Civilized Explanation of what she needs.]

Awnold··3 votes·775 views

I'm a riven main, and I know what you may be thinking. Must buff riven for free LP! Yeah uhm no. I will explain in a certain way of my opinions on why Riven should get these changes and why she needs them.

Riven's scaling should tone down, however make her base ability damage higher. Why this change you may ask? It'll make sure that Riven players that are behind will not completely fall back. However if shes ahead, she won't wreck face. However keep her scaling late game, as this will make sure she doesn't fall off. It is a complete balanced way for players not to get crushed, and make plays while not eating the enemy team whole.

My next change is Riven's early game health regeneration. Now, I don't want her regen to be like it before. She's gotten plenty of nerfs and I agree that the health regeneration before was too overpowering. That's why we make sure it's a small buff to her regen.

My last change is make her dash jump over small cliffs and such. It will make Riven have more mobility and let her make some fancy plays instead of depending on her last Q mostly.

Notice how I didn't focus on making her do crazy damage, and getting a free first blood at 2 minutes. I don't want Riven to stay as an OP champ that is always banned. I want her to be a mobile fighter that can take a beating and can make plays. These changes for Riven are VERY small, besides her Q scaling thing. However, it is not correct for a champion that was countered by say a Garen and lose automatically. Riven should be able to outplay and do what she needs to do while not snowballing out of control.

TLDR ; Make her less snowbally, and make her have abit more mobility and early game regen.

4 Comments

DarthSpectrum2 votes

As an occasional Riven player myself, I agree with these changes.

One of her quirks is that she has horrid base stats but scales like crazy due to her passive. At level 1, the damage from 1 Q strike followed by an AA does not justify why I shouldn't just AA twice, since her initial AD is so low.

Her lack of defense and regen puts Riven at a disadvantage against most top laners in the laning phrase; even with all that damage at levels 3-5, Riven cannot win trades because she lacks the sustain or lifesteal her opponent has.

The only viable build path for Riven due to the nature of her scaling is to stack as much AD as possible (similar with crit on Yasuo). If she builds tank, she will do no damage; however, if she builds AD, her dps grows exponentially while she remains a glass cannon.

I would love to see higher base stats and natural increases and lower % scaling on Riven.

King 0f Rapture1 votes

Ever since her last nerf about her damage I haven't seen one Riven, she needs just a tiny buff so people can start playing her again. Riven

chumbler1 votes

What Riven needs?

How about a mana bar?

majulito1 votes

Riven doesn't need buffs. She needs real cds. She has two forms of cc and is very mobile and can wall jump (originally a bug but later decided to let her keep it. why?). She scales well at all stages of the game and there's no real way to stop an ad champ from scaling especially when all their moves scale from ad. Its even worse with her because her shield scales with ad making her deceptively tanky. It gives them strong autos and strong abilities. This is even worse on riven who ccs you autos twice and r to execute you. Her r also acts as a come back mechanic as a steroid for range and damage.

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