Am I the only one who hates riven? Also when will riot fix her animation canceling?

Elros Thranduil··4 votes·346 views

Normally its okay to face with a Riven but its nearly impossible to beat a player who uses A BUG. Animation cancelling shit I mean. Just waiting for 3 seasons for it. Fix!

Damn, I really hate this champ.

She is broken. Its extremely hard to kill her 1vs1 if the player behind Riven knows how to abuse her kit.

its doable, I was able to win against her. Problem with Riven is that she has:

  • easy escape due to the riddiculous mobility, where the only skill is to use 3rd Q to escape over wall (which if she does is irritating as hell)
  • 1vs2 potential when she gets ganked due to
  • nonexistant cooldowns and no resources
  • no cd/no resource mobility
  • not vulnerable to exhaust - it doesn't slow her at all since she is not walking but jumping, and she can always wait till exhaust gets off before she release ultimate to execute you. Also since her ultimate is ranged, you can't use exhaust on her when she release ultimate, either you are too far to click exhaust on her, or you are too close to have a time to react (and if you use exhaust on her before she release ult, then as I said, she can just wait till it wears off)

If you play vs player who plays Riven for the first time, its easy to beat him. Its even possible to outplay Riven by flashing over her ultimate and few champions gives Riven very hard time (Quinn, Kennnen).

But, smart player who knows all the tricks can abuse Riven kit so hard. He can zone you from farm and freeze it easily. Or he can push and roam, clear your full jungle before you slowly clear the wave under tower because you obviously can't fight Riven anywhere else. In fact, Riven can tp bot, get easy double with ranged ultimate execute and then recall and get back to lane before you will be able to push the lane with your Maokai/Malphite/whatever. Her no cd no resource mobility is just toxic. Allows her to outlevel you via taking jungle camps between moving to lane/roaming. Sure, plenty of champions can do that, but Riven can do it without losing health, time and resources.

I absolutely hate this champion and Im just glad she is not in meta right now so I don't have to ban her, because lets face it, there isn't enough bans to ban champions like Riven, who are broken only in high elo in right hands.

3 Comments

DarkRitual2 votes

Want to win against Riven 1v1? Play a juggernaut. Garen is a nearly unwinnable matchup for her given equal skill levels. Basically: git gud and learn lane matchups.

Reikken2 votes

Animation cancelling isn't a bug, but I really wish it weren't part of the game. I played Riven on release because her kit is really fun, but once people got good at animation cancelling she was way too strong. Rather than even out her animations and delays, Riot embraced it and just gave her massive nerfs, leaving her unplayable for anyone who doesn't animation cancel.

Blu 11 votes

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