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Whining on Riven

OoohCreamy·3/17/2015, 12:49:00 AM·5 votes·1,508 views

OK for the people in game and on the forums ive seen complain about riven (my main) ill let you know 3 easy steps to not have her stomp a game.

  1. Stay near tower. If you stick near tower all game and farm evenly, she will fall off mid game and eventually will have to roam or get jg to come if she wants to be of use. Farming evenly with laner = loss for riven.

issue with this: People rush in my face early game and overestimate their bulk and underestimate my passive. YOU CANNOT OUTRADE RIVEN EARLY! don't feed her one kill then complain shes broken. Shes a snowball champ among many other champs, she gets the lead, you farm under turret simple as that. its not game over when she receives one kill, ive had people turn 2 kill leads around on me plenty of times.

  1. Use CC. If you interrupt her Q combo, itll be forced on a longer cooldown and she will have to escape. Also stops her mobility.

Issue with this: People always try to OUTBURST her or out trade her. No dont do that, if you see a riven dont try to take her head on with another bursty top laner. For example Riven vs Lissandra this is something youd wanna choose if you see a riven. Dont be that guy to go Riven vs MasterYi or some bad matchup like that, yes yi is strong and could kill her late game but youll feed her till then. Lissandras CC prevents riven from all ins and stops her burst short.

  1. Stop complaining.

Issue with this: You ever heard people say, when your angrier you play worse? 100% true. Your not goku you wont go super saiyan and turn a 2-0 lead in her favor into 1 HKO in yours. NO! Dont feed a riven watch her snowball and complain about brokeness afterward. Learn the champion before spewing out unrealistic numbers and getting upset because you fed her.

this is not an angry post what so ever, its just people unnecessarily post random and sometimes false information about a very easy to counter champion. Just because she can out lane a few champs doesnt make her broken in fact, Viktor can burst almost anyone down hes a better syndra, Katarina is still just r=penta Fiora can 1v1 almost any top laner. Yes thier all very good but whenever they are played they dont win 100% of the games, i feel like thats what people are making her out to be.

32 Comments

Dedrius3/17/2015, 1:07:14 AM11 votes

  1. So if riven freezes her lane near her tower you can't play the lane anymore?

  2. This means you can only use your CC defensively and you are basically playing riven's lane where she can just keep poking you down with Q-W-E away and use remaining Q procs however she pleases.

  3. I can see why you are upset when people are complaining about your main, when I started to main Irelia she was trash tier now shes getting nerfed again on PBE after becoming strong. Riven's kit is inherently overloaded, there is no real arguing with that. She has way too many weapons (3 dashes, hard CC, a shield that scales off of AD) to have the low cooldowns she has which is her major issue. She is due for some cooldown nerfs to she actually has to think about her play rather than being able to spam E-W-Q then have it all come up when she uses her last Q. I enjoy Riven and think she is fun to play but she does have some issues with her kit that make her pretty annoying to play against.

Ser Garland3/17/2015, 1:00:37 AM3 votes

Here's the thing Mr. Riven main. No one has a problem with Riven being good or bad in lane.

The issue is late game, when she has her full cool down reduction. And Im not talking about her damage, or her CC or her combo's in combat.

My issue with Riven is her mobility. With only boots of lucidity, she can Slash her way through to lane in record time. Its ridiculous, and out of character, it even looks like those old zelda games where Link back step cancels his way faster than his running animation. It's absolutely absurd.

OhOkYea3/17/2015, 12:55:43 AM2 votes

Because she has no weakness (CC, yea that's every champ's weakness btw. Buy a QSS if you want) and requires little to no effort to 100-0 someone.

redniwediS3/17/2015, 12:51:13 AM2 votes

Hello Riven main, I'm Garen main. :^)

Also nice post, it's a good change to see someone trying to be constructive with a post about a champ like Riven.

LoRdJeSuS69694203/17/2015, 1:09:30 AM2 votes

I agree. Don't think she is broken at all. Another note about playing against her--don't use your CDs on a riven while her shield is up. It's a very short duration, just wait it out and then hit her with your ability.

Kapppaccino3/17/2015, 1:41:37 AM2 votes

As a riven main, it brings tears to my eyes seeing all the riven QQ threads. If rito listens to all these weeboos who don't know how to play the game, and call every champ op just cus they don't know how to play against them... If riot nerfs or reworks riven, I'm done with league.

Dark Nephthys3/17/2015, 2:25:24 AM1 votes

I don't have a problem against Riven, I just pick Shyvana into her and usually do very well against her. She can jump/knock up/stun me all she wants, but that burn out will generally out damage her over time. (And yes, Shyvana is still a great top laner. Even in this current meta imo)