Can we do something about Riven and her 40% CDR building tendencies?

FERViD RAGE··2 votes·682 views

As Riven mains would soil their pants if someone so much as said anything bad about Riven in particular. I know there are champions that can counter Riven such as Darius, Garen and Jayce, but that's only if shes laning with like no CDR. Yes I know champions with disrupts can stop her mid-combo, but that is only if she doesn't burst them down with her obnoxiously low cooldowns. I understand that she is supposed to be an assassin with high damage, but when a riven can tower dive multiple times and take no damage because of her shield that is constantly up, mitigating turret damage at least 75% of the time. Playing against riven as a mid-close range champion is beyond impossible unless you manage to stack armor before her brutalizer. It is so damn hard to lane against a champion that has no resources and a constant, steady mitigation factor, and extremely high mobility every 3 seconds at 30 CDR. As a champion who requires no resources, Riven should not be allowed to have such a massive pillow to fall back on IF she goes in at the wrong time and gets 95% of her health taken away and gets away with being ignited/poisoned because of that massive shield she can spam every 5 seconds max rank. Also, her ult should match her kit rather than being skill that has the range of an Ezreal skill-shot, the width of a Jarvan and the power to chunk a champion for 1/3rd of their health.

Instead of saying how much of a QQ thread this is, and how I'm such a noob for not knowing how to play against Riven, please add things as to how we can balance her gameplay out to be less toxic for top/mid laners.

Jayce POWER SLAM!!!

5 Comments

Ellphi4 votes

Lol if Riot had a problem with her CDR stacking they would have just made her CDs longer

Riven's very squishy even with her shield, maybe you just need to focus better

FERViD RAGE1 votes

This is strictly for her laning phase, to clarify any misunderstandings. Also, playing a long range champion wouldn't help since they tend to be extremely squishy lategame. Also, she can just mitigate poke damage with her shield thats constantly up.

ProfDrDeath5 votes

No, she cannot just mitigate poke damage with her shield. In fact, far from it.

That shield has, for laning phase, a 10 second base CD, with a duration of 1.5 seconds. Constantly up, eh?

On top, Riven has the single worst HP regeneration in the game - damage you do to her is going to stick.

N3mO061 votes

Don't worry man, she will be the next, maybe after irelia and an other nerf of zed, but the time will come

ZephyrDrake1 votes

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Don't worry man, she will be the next, maybe after irelia and an other nerf of zed, but the time will come

don't you mean another zed "nerf" let's face it his next nerf is going to be like 1 base hp reduction or something like that

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