HOW TO FINALLY FIX RIVEN - by a main

I think everyone knows that Riven is absolutely broken so let's talk about what is so annoying about her and how to fix it.

Firstly let's talk about the obvious: animation cancelling. Riven is able to make her skills have nearly no animation at all and even cast several abilities at the same time - not only does her E cancel practically every ability and item, it also enables Riven to cast W and Q (or even and Q).

This is clearly not intended as no other champion is able to do that and should be thereby declared as a bug - and treated (=removed) as such. Seeing how this "mechanic" (aka bug) doesn't really promote thinking or playing smart nothing of worth would get lost if cancelling got just removed. Gimmicky "accidents" should not be in the game anymore.

Another huge issue is how accessible Cooldown Reduction is to AD Casters. give 80% total CDR - without the 10% runes that every Riven main runs. This has the consequence that Riven (who is able to build basically all of those items although she doesn't need to) has practically no actual CD on her skills seeing how low her CD are even without any CDR. In my opinion Riven either needs to get her Cooldowns increased due to how quickly she reaches 40% or have a passive similiar to Yasuo.

As we all know Yasuo scales overly well with Crit (just like Riven does with CDR) so that his crit damage gets reduced. The same could be done for Riven, if she had only 50% effectiveness on CDR she'd still end up overcapping with CDR runes - but much later in the game. This is probably the most sensitive solution as Riven still reaches URF mode, but slightly later into the game. It could also open up itemization different from full CDR which isn't that bad seeing how most Koreans do not build more than 20% CDR on Riven.

The third problem is the overwhelming amount of mobility that outclasses literally every other champion - although get's somewhat close. After all Riven has 4 (!) dashes which is just ridiculous considering how most champions do not even have one. I propose that her 3 Q's get merged into one while dealing the damage of the 2 old Q's. 2 dashes are still plenty. Some may argue that this will reduce her damage too much as she can't use her passive as often, but the new ArPen items (they are still OP as we all know!) should easily compensate for that.

The fourth problem is an old one and I feel bad for even having to mention it seeing how obvious it is and how Riot should've fixed that years ago. Riven has a shield that scales with AD - unlike every other shield that scales with either AP or resistances/HP. If Riven wants to go tank then she should do so, so just make her Shield scaling with HP or make it scale with AP to open up alternative builds. But I am sure Riot won't do that because they hate diversity.

Let's have a nice discussion and remember: kill those toxic Riven mains with being nice. Do not let them provoke you. ~AH