An idea how to balance Riven.

Borbland·4/21/2015, 12:31:58 PM·1 votes·810 views

I recently had an idea how to fix Riven's completly brokenness: It reduces her power, as well making her more interesting to play, making her skillcap a bit higher and makes the spell name more logic.

Why not make her E (Her most broken abitlity) only give the shield if she dashes toward a nearby enemy champion ?

First, because an ability called "Valor" giving a shield when you cowardly flee isn't very logic. With this, the AD scaling even makes sence, because the shield would be like her force of her will, her braveness etc., so no magic shield like the other champs have, so no AP scaling on her shield would be logic. The current shield looks completly random, with an AD scaling for no reason, that change would fix that too, keeping the AD scaling.

Second, it reduces her power, she really needs that, I don't think I'll have to say much about it.

Thrid, it splits good Rivens from the bad Rivens, it encourages to take more risk and come back to the fight. Now, you prefer to flee thanks to that immense shield coupled with a shield.

What do yo think ? Would be that nerf to high ? Or we need to nerf something else ?

11 Comments

TwoDadChad4/21/2015, 1:18:45 PM3 votes

Riven doesn't need to be nerfed

ZeeDrakon4/21/2015, 12:41:34 PM3 votes

So you want to increase the skill cap of a champ that already has one of the highest in game, while also nerfing one of the most well-balanced champs in game. Seems legit.

Bleediss4/21/2015, 1:21:29 PM3 votes

Riven doesn't need any changes, she already has shitty HP5, falls extremely far behind, and has some ultra hard counters like Garen, Renekton, or some high stress matchups against champions like Fiora, because Fiora snowballs ultra hard, so does Riven.

Anyways, she takes a decent amount of skill to actually use her correctly and if you know what to do against Riven then there really shouldn't be an issue facing her.

RouterSmiter4/21/2015, 12:44:46 PM2 votes

How to Beat Riven:

  1. Play Renekton
  2. Press w
  3. Press q
  4. Press e
Darth Pixy Misa4/21/2015, 4:35:24 PM1 votes

If Riven were to get a energy gauge, It would only be fair if they revert the last 2 seasons of nerfs on her.

She has the highest rage quit rate for a reason.....

WolfChases4/21/2015, 4:50:22 PM1 votes

The only damn way to make her balanced is to make her Shield scaling of AP and NOTHING else.

Extreme Troller4/21/2015, 12:44:07 PM1 votes

to balance riven, riot need to remove the bug hydra/dash. but riot won't because they can't reproduce the bug due to their noobiness. I've not seen a bronze did this glitch yet.