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I hate playing against Riven

feintfiend·4/8/2019, 4:06:26 PM·54 votes·15,842 views

I don't care about the hate this'll get I just wanted to say if there's a champ in this game I would remove it wouldn't be yasuo, zoe or nasus, it'd be Riven.

Every Riven matchup is decided by the Riven player making a mistake or not, this champ completely removes any and all counterplay if the person playing her has a brain. She's supposed to be high skillcap yet she maintains a high winrate and a ridiculously high playrate. What irks me the most is Riven players will never admit how disgustingly unbalanced this champ is, they just flash on you the second they hit lvl 6 and kill you while CC locking you with her stun and knockup. Even Zed doesn't oneshot as easily as lvl 6.

"Dude its , , , Brutalizer, Conqueror, etc" The cognitive dissonance is fucking insane, they will NEVER admit that this champ has been broken for years now, that this champ's design is flawed.

The only counter to Riven is a ban, riven players usually feed on fair champs.

54.6% winrate diamond and above(highest for intended top laners) 13.7% pickrate (highest top lane)

95 Comments

Jimmy Rustles4/8/2019, 4:31:16 PM36 votes

I like how everyone single person who defends Riven absurd playrate and win rate only ever either

A - Yells about another champion being more options

B - Insults the OP by saying they're bad and that's why they lose to riven

Hammermancer4/8/2019, 4:11:49 PM8 votes

Riven doesn't 1shot unless you're completely unaware of how she's played

losing to riven means you've probably picked a stat check champion and lost lane early to her or aren't knowledgeable on how to fight her and skilled enough to beat that riven player (Assuming you're on a more skill intensive duelist champion)

Aatrox Ahri Akali Azir Camille Darius Ekko Elise Fiora Fizz Galio Garen Irelia Jayce Katarina Leblanc LeeSin Malzahar Maokai Poppy Ryze Shaco Taric Sylas Vladimir Warwick XinZhao Yasuo

are all very capable of defeating riven in their own ways, be it the easy stat checky format of Poppy or Maokai, or the more methodical Leblanc/shaco, or the "in your face" method of jayce, irelia, fiora, yasuo.

DarwinTheory4/8/2019, 4:57:37 PM7 votes

I beat a riven HARD! She was stomped. Got a few items......11/7/2 KDA carried the game. I think she killed me once and that was right at the last push bursting me with no armour pen...yeah....fuck that shit.

Crispy0Snake4/8/2019, 4:57:42 PM5 votes

Her all in is insane, if you're melee it's hard to even farm without this wraith of a champion trying to 100-0 you. She can attempt to do it so often too.

The only thing you can do is flash her ult, because you won't out damage her in the all in, and her cooldowns are so low she gets an auto cancel every half second. On top of that she's very mobile and can escape bad situations very easily.

So you can make her squishier, increase her cooldowns or make her autos take longer to proc damage. I think all 3 should be done.

Take her to pre-revert Leblancville

ZeroAgainst4/9/2019, 10:11:21 PM3 votes

Renekton y'all forgot about this guy he makes her early game hell. but yeah she needs changes they where quick to nerf yorick but not her lolollol

mack91124/8/2019, 6:38:38 PM2 votes

Champions like riven require A very deep understanding of trading to beat her.