How to fix Riven

M Schumacher··11 votes·1,058 views

OLD Passive: Riven's blade gains a charge for 5 seconds every time she casts an ability, stacking up to 3 times. Each of her basic attacks consumes an available charge to deal 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50 % AD bonus physical damage.

**NEW **Passive: Riven perpetually takes 15% increased damage.

OLD Q: ACTIVE: 「 PHYSICAL DAMAGE: 10 / 30 / 50 / 70 / 90 (+ 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 / 60% AD) 」 The third damages all enemies around Riven in an expanded radius, Airborne icon knocks them up, and can also be used to pass over certain instances of terrain. Each cast also resets Riven's autoattack timer.

NEW Q: ACTIVE: ~~PHYSICAL DAMAGE: 10 / 11 / 12 / 13 / 14 / 15 (+ 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 / 60% AD) ~~The third damages all enemies around Riven in an expanded radius, Riven is then slowed by 30% for 2 seconds.

**OLD W: ** PHYSICAL DAMAGE: 50 / 80 / 110 / 140 / 170 (+ 100% bonus AD) / .75s STUN

**NEW W: **PHYSICAL DAMAGE: 50 / 80 / 110 / 140 / 170 (+ 10% Ability Power) / 0.25s 99% SLOW

**OLD E: ** ~~SHIELD: 90 / 120 / 150 / 180 / 210 (+ 100% bonus AD) ~~

**NEW E: ** SHIELD: 90 / 120 / 150 / 180 / 210. Riven is stunned for 5 seconds after using E.

**OLD R ACTIVE: ** 「 MINIMUM PHYSICAL DAMAGE: 80 / 120 / 160 (+ 60% bonus AD) 」

NEW R ACTIVE: ACTIVE: Riven signals her ship off-shore to fire upon the target area for 8 seconds, calling down 12 waves of cannonballs in clusters of 3 every 2 seconds, Sight icon revealing it for the duration. Each wave deals magic damage to all enemies hit and Slow icon slows them by 30% for 0.5 seconds. MAGIC DAMAGE PER WAVE: 50 / 70 / 90 (+ 10% AP) 」 「 MAXIMUM MAGIC DAMAGE: 600 / 840 / 1080 (+ 120% AP) 」

18 Comments

Gunnlaug5 votes

Well played. Riven isn;t op btw :)

Aatrox Herself2 votes

Yes she is. In every way.

Jase1355 votes

Not really. If she has a bad early game then it's pretty much a no-go.

Aatrox Herself1 votes

But its impossible for her to have a bad early.

Jase1352 votes

After over 100 played Riven games, you're hilarious.

Ticklish Tas1 votes

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After over 100 played Riven games, you're hilarious.

If you've played over 100 Riven games and you're not winning all of your early games then I think you should switch to a different champion xD

Jase1352 votes

You see, in League of legends there are these things called bad matchups.

Aatrox Herself1 votes

You see their is also this thing called 5 escapes a shield a stun and being resourceless.

Jase1352 votes

I'm sure Garen and Darius would say otherwise. Even Gnar is an issue from outranging her.

Ticklish Tas1 votes

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I'm sure Garen and Darius would say otherwise. Even Gnar is an issue from outranging her.

Unlike Garen or Darius, Riven is actually useful in teamfights past 20 minutes. Even if she did get beaten in lane, that doesn't take away her 2 forms of aoe cc, or the fact that she can still help finish enemies off with her ranged aoe execute that is objectively better than Garen's and situationally better than Darius'. Gnar at least kinda makes sense, Riven should typically be able to avoid his boomerangs, but since he's ranged and builds a bit tanky anyways it makes sense for her to have trouble with him. That by no means makes her useless later.

Jase1351 votes

Well useless, of course not, but the thing about Garen and Darius is that they will most likely snowball way harder than Riven as a result of winning the lane and continue to dominate her throughout, even if they end up not doing anything else.

Ticklish Tas1 votes

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Well useless, of course not, but the thing about Garen and Darius is that they will most likely snowball way harder than Riven as a result of winning the lane and continue to dominate her throughout, even if they end up not doing anything else.

And therein lies another problem with Riven just by picking her in champ select, you've forced your opponent to pick a champion that can deal with her, and if that champ is Darius or Garen (one of who is EXTREMELY easy gank food) who is pretty useless past 20 minutes, you're letting your team have the luxury of basically fighting a 4v4 That Darius and Garen can go down and help if they want, but they won't do nearly as much in teamfights as other champions, while you have the choice of staying top and quickly taking tower due to ad stacking, or joining up with your own team and at least providing your utility to them

Jase1352 votes

That I don't disagree with. It's a really... awkward position for her, but honestly of all of the champions that share this issue I don't think of Riven over a champ like Fizz.

MohawkBird1 votes

Her early game is where she shines though. Especially with that stupid level 1 all in.

Jase1351 votes

Mmmm level 2. And that's why people with overall stronger early games shut her down.

Aatrox Herself2 votes

Perfect.

Jase1351 votes

you sir deserve a slow clap.

Yenix1 votes

ITT: people talk about how riven is op

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