Why does Riven Not have a downside?

Havoc310··2 votes·978 views

Like low CD skills, no mana cost, shield that scales off of AD, very mobile, and a passive that increases her damage which is always up late game. Please let me know what her weakness is? Not saying she is op, but she is damn annoying to go against in lane.

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Wînter Fox4 votes

Riven was nerfed to holy hell. She has 0 health regeneration, her Q damage has been neutered, and her shield lasts 0.002 seconds. The only thing is she's still snowbally and does surprising amounts of damage if you're not familiar with her. Honestly, Fiora is probably in a better position than Riven right now

Theorchero3 votes

Her damage and health regeneration got hit pretty hard. Manaless champions in general don't have downsides for being manaless. Unless you're Garen, and that's because you are tanky as balls starting from the beginning of the game.

Yasuo has some of the highest damage and lowest cooldowns in the game and has one of the most powerful mechanics in the game on a basic ability. Oh, and he's mobile. With CC.

wolfax1 votes

He also has super low base health and base movement is very low now. His CC is also the most conditional in the game. Just saying.

Riven got hit a lot too with nerfs so she's nowhere near her old power level.

Theorchero2 votes

He also has super low base health and base movement is very low now. His CC is also the most conditional in the game. Just saying.

Riven got hit a lot too with nerfs so she's nowhere near her old power level.

Well, he's been nerfed like what, every other patch? It's taken him THIS long to get this point, and he's arguably still strong.

Blade of Justic2 votes

I feel the same way but there's so many Riven husbandos in the community, that you'll receive some nasty comments for even suggesting to hurt their waifu.

ItsStout2 votes

No sustain, weak early, squishy, and the list goes on.

iamthegoatofwar1 votes

CC riven win games.

Ali G1 votes

shes so squishy so any sort of cc just rapes her, unless she has an open path to your squishes shes pretty uselss. also she kinda sucks early now pretty easy to beat in lane IMO

Havoc3101 votes

I understand that CC'ing her works, which is why I don't believe she is OP. That being said in top lane not to many champions have a edge on her. Your thoughts in the lane?

Theorchero1 votes

I understand that CC'ing her works, which is why I don't believe she is OP. That being said in top lane not to many champions have a edge on her. Your thoughts in the lane?

Well, I main Nid top lane and I find the matchup to be one of the most fun in the game, honestly. If you fuck up, she can kill you sure, but you have definite advantage and outplay potential. As Nasus I just start cloth 5, and farm my Q. Once i have wardens mail I just flat out ignore her.

For actual hard counters, look no further than Garen. Tanky as balls, can't die to her, can't gank him, he shreds her from level 1. Or Renekton. Bit of a harder lane bully early on, but he falls off, especially damage wise, but he counters her harder than Garen, at least in lane.

Ryze can shit on her pretty bad too, if he's careful. As long as he avoids being cheesed at level 2, he can poke and deny her any potential to trade back damage. Hell, even ANOTHER melee like jax can beat her too while outscaling hard.

Honestly, Riven isn't that big of a deal anymore. Any melee that goes top is far too tanky for her to kill, and any Range, is well, ranged so they can poke and kite her back. She still snowballs incredibly hard but she requires a bit more skill to snowball to begin with in my opinion, long past are the days where running up and Q auting you three times + ignite would kill you.

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