I think deaths dance is fine, but now it's apparent that fiora and riven ought to receive nerfs

Fiora definitely moreso than riven.

I think with fiora, all you have to do is make her early game more exploitable than it currently is. She is the only HYPERSCALE I can think of top lane that can actually abuse a lot of matchups starting at around levels 2-3.

Riven isn't too bad, but she needs to have either her Q or her E CDs nerfed slightly. She scales pretty dman well but also manages to bully the shit out of many melee lanes with her powerful "fake" all-ins (she goes in bursts your ass and then has the option to either GTFO or continue on to kill you). Riven, for a supposedly "hard" champion, has an astonishingly high play rate and win rate. The idea that riven is gated by her skill is no longer a valid argument, she's too powerful for any non-potato that plays her.

http://www.op.gg/champion/riven/statistics/top

Riven is the fifth most picked top lane champion with a 52% win rate.

http://www.op.gg/champion/fiora/statistics/top

While fiora's win rate usually hovers at around 51%, she is the MOST POPULAR TOP LANE CHAMPION. Her ability to stack fervor INCREDIBLY fast with her lunge and E auto reset means her lane phase is much better than people think and she can win all-ins against even some of the more traditionally oppressive early game champions. Her scaling is so damn good that you're essentially obliged to SMASH her in lane, I'm talking absolutely multi-kill put her in the goddamn dirt and cripple her ass, but that's hard with her current lane phase power.

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I think the big thing to take home is that deaths dance is actually a good item for a lot of ADs to buy, and that's great, but just as how darius was tapped when courage made him a little too overbearing, it's time for riven to get her love-tap to tone down how good ddance is on her and fiora needs to get her early game's legs cut off.

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EDIT: Just disregard the deaths dance mention, regardless, fiora and riven need nerfs.

DOUBLE EDIT: Because no one seems to have paid attention to the first edit in which I concede the point that deaths dance is fine, I'm done with this thread. If anyone wants to be a moron and continue to try and argue with me here about deaths dance go ahead, I'm not checking this thread anymore. Time for it to die now, because the main point of the thread is long lost.