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With the new Aatrox becoming a better Riven, what's the point of Riven?

AIodia·7/10/2018, 10:05:02 PM·1 votes·2,293 views

Aatrox has a very similar 3x Q like Riven, plus a knockup for EACH of the Q Aatrox has 2x dashes vs Riven's one Aatrox has a ranged cc vs Riven's melee one

Aatrox also has massive built-in life steal/vamp Aatrox also has a built-in GA ultimate

Aatrox is literally top tier in competition right now

Riven has no dominant feature Riven's consistent output is on par with other top laners. Riven's burst damage is above average but at the cost of everything else:

  • basically no heals
  • low defensive stats / scaling stats
  • heavy reliant on one stat - attack damage, which is the most expensive stat, hard countered with a simple cloth armor

Best case scenario, if Riven is fed, ahead, and played with well executed combos can be relevant in laning/team fights Average/worse case scenario, if Riven falls behind or is on par in lane, offers little to overall macros/team fights, becomes not as valuable compared to other champs who can not only deal damage, but has additional advantages such as range, tankiness, cc, sustain. Riven is literally just damage, and that's not good enough in today's meta.

Please rework Riven by giving her additional features other than 'damage' which everyone has... If it's truly mobility, then things like allow her E to dash through walls, or every Q dashing through walls. It it's sustain, giver her the massive regen (like when she was released) If it's pure damage, then she needs more damage/armor shred, because the average bruizer deals just as much dmg as her and will live long enough to matter.

Cheers

6 Comments

Slythion7/10/2018, 10:26:20 PM5 votes

they literally don't perform the same role as champions. Just because they have similar abilities doesn't mean their differences don't make an impact on their performance or playstyle.

So please, so trying to hard to compare them when they are clearly different champions.

Lets have shrex7/10/2018, 10:09:50 PM4 votes

None, they both have nothing to do with each other.

Vipipi12/9/2018, 6:53:59 AM1 votes

Some people may consider they are the same champion because Aattrox can do better job top lane and overall game impacts. If still want specific explanation, you can read carefully from the first post. There's a good comparison. Just want you all to know that, RIOT tries to create new trend new stuff every patch, the way for them to do that is to create imbalances, so that people are forced to play different things and try out different things. However in my opinion, even that is the strategy for em to design the game, they shouldn't make it one-sided. I just hope they can think more of the counterplays and items, like utility item that can blind, or long cool down reveal like quinn to detect stealth champions, changing back Sterak's Gage to tank item not for brusier top , etc.