Riven needs some balancing
Look, Riven is like Yasuo to Riot. They refuse to actually touch the champion but when they feel like the hate is too big they nerf the one thing that is the most pointless thing you can imagen. Last nerf we saw on Riven was her movement speed reduced by 5. What the fuck is that shit? She is the most point and click champ I have seen, only difference is that you point with your mouse and click with right mouse button AND Q to kill people. So skill demanding I know, like stabbing people to death with kled.
BUT! When her winrate drops just a little bit then what does Riot do? Buff her ult instantly with no thoughts put into it. Why? We are talking about a champion that has ridicules damage, low cooldowns after lvl 4 and ALLWAYS has her ultimate. Like no joke, if you die to her or kill her and you back, when you both get back into lane she probably has her ult again. It's so stupid. It's like if Yorick's new slave Maiden instantly went on cooldown when you spawn her so that it has nearly zero cooldown left when it dies.
Her ult in itself without the windslash crap that just throws away everything I can concider skilled with Riven it increases damage, attack range and the range of her abilities. Why? It feels as stupid as giving Garen passive spellvamp on his ult rewarding someone for just pressing a single button.
In PBE you NEVER see them try anything with Riven either, you see so many other champs be tested around with now and then but never Riven. Is she so balanced? Then please actually explain to me how a champion like that is so balanced when slows is pointless as hell because all she does is jump and got just as much cooldown on her shit in the end like Sion's Q.
Is she squishie? Easy fix. Press E to get a AD scaling shield. Armor? Would be a great idea but her scalings and passive makes that pointless aswell. Health? Good thing they buffed Windslash to deal more damage over all so people can't really survive it.
The cone on it is so stupid aswell, I mean really. Side step it to counter it? If you are to far away it wont matter shit because most toplaners are slow as shit because they are ment to be tanky, most dashes and such which you can escape with are used to get on a distance (which she closes instantly because she has no cooldown on her abilities) and ofcourse if you stand all up in her face and dodge windslash you are most likely to die anyway because she will just pummel your face in.
Riot removed Yorick from the freeweek cycle before the rework because his gameplay was straight out toxic and is no fun to play against. Riven is no better with all the CC she got and massive base damages, adding on zero cooldowns and that huge shield lasting for 2 seconds topped with a passive increasing her damage each like she even presses a button. Yeah, not fucking ridicules at all.
Worst part of it all is that she is listed to be one of the most skill demanding champs in league and has a huge portion of Riven lovers defending her so. I played her, tried her a couple of times and unless I face Garen or Renekton the lane is easy win. All that talk about skill is like saying Kled is superhard to play, you can say Garen demands some in dept strategy to use his spinning move and that you need to calculate Tryndamere's basic attacks.
Here is how Riven works in a short guide to use her.
Step 1: Hold your mouse cursor over the area you wish to move to or target to engage. Step 2: Press Q or E to move there instantly with no other effort put into it. Step 3: Press R when you decide to kill your target. Step 4: If the target is about to escape then follow step 1 and follow that up with presing R again.
You can come here and say all this shit about BoxBox and what kind of plays you can make with Riven but she has the same crap Zed got. But atleast Zed can be punished for making a mistake, Riven just keeps on leaping away.
For example there are 2 types of Zed's if I am to put it blunt. The type of zed that use his abilities using his high damage to kill in a simple way, and the type of Zed that dances circles around you because he is extremely into the champ and knows how to move around. Unlike Riven however he can die just as fast as he engage if one CC lands on him. With Riven you can start mashing your buttons to get a shield as large as Teemo's hate meter and move around basicly ignoring 80% of all slows put on you. Where is the skill in that?
Just TRY once to use PBE to test out how to balance Riven out, because her playstyle is no fun to play against because you are facing a champion that does more of the work than the actual player with ridicules scalings and cooldowns.