With Riven suddenly being a Topic today, let me add my own 2 cents I Guess

Aight, so suddenly today I see an unusual amount of Riven complains, which I Personally fail to understand for a variety of reasons. Look, sometimes we lose to a Riven, that is good and all, but if you lose to a Riven it is the same feeling as Losing to a GP because Riven takes a huge amount of both champion Knowledge and game Knowledge on performing successful.

Let me Quote my own words I Used to respond to someone else.

Riven can be a pain to deal with. HOWEVER, consider that riven may be one of the hardest Skill capped champions in the game. For her to be obnoxious you Need to be really good at her. As to why this is so, i will explain here, with the same Facts i post every time:

• She is a snowball reliant champion who you Need to bully with hard, but at the same time she has the weakest lvl 1 - 3 stats next to Sona.

• She has 100% only flat numbers in her kit and is probably the only toplaner next to jayce who Needs to Build full ad in order to do well.

• She has only one defensive spell which serves as a temporary shield and a displacement, the shield is only 1 second long and she dashes around 250 or 300 Units. (yasuo E dashes about 500 Units)

• Her damage Comes mostly from her Auto attacks, empowered by her passive. meaning she is Kind of a melee lucian, she is gonna faceroll and brawl you like a tryhard to successfully proc her damage.

• counting in all her 4 skills, flash and stormraiders as the mastery, she possesses over 20 different combos and resets which ALL Need to be mastered if you want to be a pro riven Player. about half of them you Need to know, including the Flash-3rd Q-W-Hydra reset. Why the specific combo, i will explain in the next point

• You Need to know how to set up your kills and how to engage. Riven has insane mobility, but mind me only 1 out of her 4 dashes can go over walls, and only over thin ones too. the thickest wall she can jump over from is the 2 sidewalls from bird camp. Meaning you Need to really know how to engage and initiate if you want anything positive to happen

• Additional Edited Info which I forgot to add: Riven has Zero sustain and no stat boosts at all. Meaning she suffers heavily under the current meta we have being a Leech vs Grievious wounds tank meta. If you Build lifesteal, people will stack a thornail with armor to Counter her. If you Build lethality, people will go with a Frozen heart and a Randuins. Riven being played well is all the more difficult in tank metas like this one.

Riven is one of the only, if not THE only champion whos performance is 100% defined by how a Player performs. she is absolutely brutal and unforgiving to noobs, and stupidly rewarding for pros. BUT to get there, to be amongs those pros you have the possibly hardest and longest journey before you in all of the league champions.

That riven Players are seen as Hitler-worshipping satanics by the community does by all means not help either. riven Players receive an unusual amount of toxicity, making their rewards feel meh and their mistakes weight on them all the more. so picking her up is also a mental challenge due to how badly a place she owns in the communities mindset.

Long story short, when you get wrecked by a riven, try to remember just how much that Person had to endure to be able to wreck anything with a riven to begin with. When i get bent over and beta-placed by a riven, i just shrug and think to myself "well that happened" because i have to respect the fact that this guy lived hell to be good on her.

Having said all of that, repeadedly, People really Need to be a bit easier on her. Riven is Trouble for the mind, i do not deny that. But she is the only one who makes peoples faces go red in tilt from sheer Skill alone. She is the one champion you cannot call a noob champ because it is the utilization of her Kit as a whole that makes her strong. If you change from a Malza main to a Riven main you will by garuantee take a whole month or even 2 months of consecutive daily playing for HOURS to be good enough with riven to not lose a lane vs any sustain toplane (and renekton).

So I Kindly ask people to be more considerate of Riven Players.

Edit: the Quoting fucked up so i had to rearrange my post a bit. incase anyone wonders about the design changes of my post.