Riot, 10+ topics on how joyful it is that Riven is disabled should tell you something.

J0HN RUMB0··5 votes·669 views

Hundreds of thousand of players do an amount of playtesting every day that you wont be able to do in years, and the general conclusion of the majority of people is that Riven is oppressive , op and unfun to play against. I have never been a fan of the whole „balancing is done for the pro scene only, they are the only people that understand the game" thing, i believe you should tackle the challenge to make sure champs feel balanced for the majority of people (silver and below) as well as the pro scene. Now we all know the talk about ultra-problematic champs like katarina, whose kits are oppressive to the majority of the playerbase who arent reliably able to cc her, and dont know how to not feed her over the course of a game, but those champs are fine since the vast majority of players doesnt count... =(

But, this is my point: In the case of Riven, she only gets more oppressive in higher elos of soloqueue. How can you accept that a champion creates such an unfair and oppressive experience for so many players?

5 Comments

YossarianSensei1 votes

Yeah it tells them that the vast majority of their players are gold or below and love to complain about champions that aren't anywhere near OP

J0HN RUMB01 votes

Which means millions of players shall reliably lose lane and game to Riven, not seeing hope, cause you guys are so good. WP

YossarianSensei1 votes

Or more accurately millions and millions of low level players are losing to Heimerdinger who has been top winrate in solo queue in all divisions except Diamond+ for god knows how long, and they continue to play 'pin the blame on the LC$ champion' because they don't understand how the game works, much less how to carry themselves out of Silver.

Deep Terror Nami1 votes

It tells you that people love to make popular jokes that they know others will enjoy and comment or upvote. It doesn't say jack shit about gameplay.

Posui Gart1 votes

Riot, 10+ topics on how joyful it is that Riven is disabled should tell you something: never ever listen to the boards' talk about balance. Seriously, if Riven is so OP, why isn't she 100% pickbanned in high elo? Vlad is stronger overall(even if he loses lane to her, he still has much better late), Ryze just counters her hard from lvl2 and IS almost 100% pickbanned in high elo.

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