About Riven an Animation Cancelling

This is unrelated to the dash coding bug that has long effected Riven AND other champions. Riot is Fixing that.

Ah yes. Animation canceling. One of the first things I learned to do in RTS, Moba and fighting games. Wha? It isn't exclusive to Riven? Nope.

The first thing I learned as an ADC was how to blend Attack Move and Move commands in order to cancel the end of AA animations slightly boosting the amount of actions I could take and how fast I could take them. Same playing mages like Malz, Old Xerath and Lux. Learning how spell orders could be made to cast faster through input commands. I even do it with Shyvana's dragon form AA animations since they are so damn long. AA-Move click ahead-AA.

It is a gate to being skilled at any particular champion. Learning how their spells, animations, hit boxes and movements interact. This effects no champion more than Riven. For a long time I thought it was a positive thing, players not good at Riven averaged 42% win rates while those good at her. And picking her into favorable matchups and comps. Could ring in good win rates like 55-63%. Like my 62% prerework win rate on Shyvana.

But now I agree. We should remove Rivens animation cancels... somehow(likely not possible in the engine), her combos. Everything. Just so I can see the community QQ 10x more when Riot inevitably has to compensation buff her for Diamond+ play. The only people animation cancels and combos heavily effect.

Because at the moment. Riven is bad in low tiers, average in average tiers, above average in high tiers. Low tier players QQ about her. When they don't even deal with what makes her strong. So I actually welcome Riot removing this facet of her gameplay. So she can drop to 40- win rate plat+ and get huge buffs to compensate. Since they originally nerfed her stats, scalings and tankiness so she could have animation cancels. They'd have to revert those nerfs.