Would edge on Riven ruin Riven Junglers?

Empyrius·10/9/2015, 12:36:25 AM·2 votes·490 views

I just heard about these experimental changes tested on the PBE. There are plenty of people who think they are a nerf and plenty think they are a buff. I am curious however if Riven Jungle would be able to survive.

With the current Riven jungle, you start Q at 1:44 to build up 3 stacks to start your first camp and get a another 3 q's after like 3 s after starting the camp, She can make it to both buffs sometimes but it really requires proper management of skills and AA.

With this new EDGE, she no longer does increased AA to monsters. Would she be a jungler any longer? No execute and hard jungle pathing... I know riot wanted to make it so that every champion could be played in the jungle, i feel that she would no longer be able to survive in there.

3 Comments

WinBoat10/9/2015, 1:27:48 AM1 votes

I Riven jungle, didn't think about that. I think Q is broken on jungling monsters and don't work except the knock up. It seems like you gotta auto attack cause you barely do any Q damage other than the 3rd combo hit. So i'd say it would be a huge nerf to Riven jungling which is fun as shit.
Also, it would be a huge nerf in team fights because Riven typically has to kill people quick, so to sit there and auto attack someone in a team fight to build edge to execute people with your ult is again a big nerf to her. More than likely, she needs her ult ready on go, so if they were stupid enough to follow through with this nerf, then Riven would have to time her edge like Gnar times his rage, or build edge like Annie typically builds her stun for a team fight.

Solo laning wise, it isn't a nerf, but I wouldn't say it's a buff either.

Blade of Justic10/9/2015, 1:29:24 AM1 votes

Rickless, the man behind the rework, said that he'd consider giving Riven edge when she AAs a large monster at a jungle camp.

Empyrius10/11/2015, 4:18:53 AM1 votes

If edge occurs on AA on Monsters and not minions it would be ok then. Because it would scale broken wings and Ki burst and may even out her pathing issues at early game. Her ganks would be slightly less effective from the execute removal but overall should be ok. If it was enabled for jungle, Riot should make it better for jungle pathing (20% increased damage vs monsters) in order to compensate for the weaker ganks.