The Riven changes will ruin her

ShinTwist·10/1/2015, 4:11:14 PM·6 votes·918 views

Her new passive punishes Riven for playing well by wasting stacks, destroys her ability to fight ranged opponents, and does less damage per auto. This will also decrease her skill cap significantly because she will no longer have to manage her passive, just pretend to be Tryndamere and get muh fury. Animation cancelling, a hallmark of a good Riven, will now be detrimental to her by wasting stacks of her passive.

Riven was great, if these go through and her numbers are changed to keep her viable she will actually be what the community complained about. Faceroll. GG.

31 Comments

53436278DEL110/1/2015, 4:15:44 PM2 votes

they said that about skarner too lol

The Sword Saint10/1/2015, 4:35:08 PM2 votes

On the design direction of the experimental Riven changes

TeemoJenkins10/1/2015, 4:22:54 PM2 votes

Riven [NOTE: These changes are EXPERIMENTAL. Few tweets for context: 1, 2, 3 ] Runic Blade (Passive) changed to: "Riven's abilities charge her blade, causing her next basic attack to deal an additional [20% - 50%] physical damage. If Runic Blade damages an enemy champion, Riven gains 20 Edge.
Riven's damage is increased by up to 10% based on how much Edge she has. If she hasn't gained Edge in the last 10 seconds, Riven begins to lose her Edge at the rate of 10 every second.
Bonus Damage: X" Video preview available here. Passive is now on next basic attack rather than stacking up to three times. Passive now generates a new resource called Edge. 10 Edge = 1% damage increase.

Can you post your PBE logs to show the massive difference this is making? Looks like this will INCREASE her skill cap and separate the wheat from the chafe.

Xx420n0sc0p3sxX10/1/2015, 7:28:59 PM1 votes

I think it's good they are straying away from animation cancelling. I don't think it should be removed, but you have to keep in mind it's a bug. I like the changes tbh. I'd let yourself try them before saying it will ruin her......people said the same bout mord.

fukimissHarambe10/1/2015, 8:10:00 PM1 votes

If these changes go through, IF. Riven will have more sustained damage and less burst damage, that WON'T ruin the champion. Her new passive, regardless of whatever bullshit your trying to preach is MUCH harder to manage and it will help lower level players counterplay the champion while retaining her mechanical requirement in higher play.

Maximum Morde10/1/2015, 4:12:13 PM1 votes

Ok.

Boulderox10/1/2015, 8:28:15 PM1 votes

I have waited a LOOOONNNGGG time to say this to riven mains that are complaining about these changes http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/853/218/ae7.png

IcyPepper10/1/2015, 4:26:11 PM1 votes

This will also decrease her skill cap significantly because she will no longer have to manage her passive

I think it'll increase because she'll have a resource to manage and keep track of.

It's a little better than QQQ and having three autos for a short time hurting hard. I like the new resource, you actually to have to manage it.

Bulletproof Car10/1/2015, 5:17:51 PM1 votes

the riven changes are a buff