Riven Main here: My thoughts and what needs changes

Hi, I'm a Riven main/enthusiast who is currently placed in gold 3 but have gave up on ranked regardless here are my thoughts on why Riven should be reworked into a more balanced combo based champion.

Lets identify what Riven does and her purpose for being picked -All ad melee fighter/assassin that is played mostly assassin -has 2 forms of cc that can be chained easily-knock up and stun -defensive ability that scales off an offensive stat WTF -insanely low cool downs once you get 2 items and have runes and masteries which most rivens do -4 unfair mobility abilities

What Riven does is use her high mobility and CC to 100-0 every low mobility squishy or flash ult someone getting caught

One of the most unfair things about Riven is how much control she has in lane, if you are melee and not a aoe counter than you have no control once she gets onto you. Example Riven vs Vlad btw there are more match ups like this

Like everyone that has noticed why are all these melee assassins resource less champions? Zed, Yasuo, Riven, Lee arguably also why do they all have insane unlimited mobility that all have the same play pattern, use mobility to harass and once they are low enough just full on cheese them. Just another unrelated topic why isn't talon resource less.

Last thing i want to mention and is a pretty big point is her animation canceling, i'm pretty sure that this “mechanic” is a bug or glitch that is being exploited to increase her insane damage output which clearly shouldn't even exist in this game

Here are my suggested nerfs

-Q cool down starts at second/third cast or gets increased cool down so her opponents get some counter play -Shield doesn't scale with AD or changed to something like j4 shield to help her team fighting -Shield has higher base but doesn't scale and has flat cool down and is unaffected by CDR items -passive damage Nerf early game -Wind slash execute damage reduced reasonable

Rework her into a more balanced combo based champion or tone down the mobility

also Infernal Nasus has been bugged badly since 5.10 with slow autoattack and Q animations which make the skin bothersome