Thoughts on making Riven into an energy champ?

Drunk Zetsubou·9/29/2015, 3:03:15 AM·8 votes·994 views

Was wondering if making her skills cost energy would balance her out. Thoughts on this? No flaming and be mature lmao. Just curious on what you guys think. I think it's a bit unfair how Riven players can get away with just spamming the shield in lane with no worries of penalties. Even with the long cooldowns early her late game cooldowns gives her free reign to spam. I say give her skills energy cost or something so Riven players actually think about using their skills correctly instead of mashing on their keyboard.

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Baseball3b9/29/2015, 4:26:13 AM6 votes

First of all, I'm going to take the high road by not discussing your hypocrisy when you say "no flaming" and to be "mature", then proceed to insult all Riven players by stating all they do is mash their keyboard.

More on topic; no. Giving her more energy creates more problems than it solves.

There was already another thread on this earlier where I explained my thoughts behind my reasoning.

To recapitulate it, Riven's role is that of an assassin in teamfights. She wants to jump the backline much like Zed, Talon and Fizz. However, she lacks the blinks/ invulnerability of the other assassins, meaning she's less safe while being just as squishy, which means her shield is essential to letting her do her job. She needs to be able absorb a spell or a couple of AAs.

Not only that, but it would make her fairly immobile (i.e. as far as useful mobility). By that I mean she has to blow 3 spells on average to reach teamfights (taking her Q-Q-E-R-Q-Hydra-W animation cancel for example) which means by the time she enters the fight, she'd already be out of energy.

She's already fairly easy to deal with in lane if you know how to play around her. She's a lane bully, she's meant to be obnoxious. She needs to be, otherwise we'd see an abundance of dominant mid and late game carries. Not to mention, her entire kit is interactive. It's literally bursting with counterplay.

Edit: 15 hours of studying makes me bad at grammar

CKwoka269479/29/2015, 4:08:39 AM4 votes

umm riven is fine, if anything she needs a longer shield and stun.

Ellphi9/29/2015, 3:10:07 AM3 votes

What's the point

Like all the Energy champs she'd have some sort of Energy recovery mechanism which would probably be 'gain energy when you proc Runic Blade' so it'd add unnecessary complications to the champ and realistically accomplish nothing

Snowball4u9/29/2015, 3:08:11 AM1 votes

Shes not a ninja so no.

CKwoka269479/30/2015, 12:26:00 AM1 votes

All energy champs have some form of ranged attack. Riven is pure melee.

Drunk Zetsubou10/1/2015, 3:12:03 AM1 votes

LOL well Riot answered me in some form. Not turning her into an energy champ but doing something to reduce her damage in some way.. Loving the removal of missing health on her ult. Hope these experimental changes stay and help.

http://www.surrenderat20.net/2015/09/930-pbe-update.html