My Idea: How to Make Riven Healthy

I'll keep this short and sweet. I don't play Riven: but I do enjoy playing against her. I think it's a fun match up, provided I pick Garen. xD

BUT ANYWAYS, there are tons of bad ideas being suggested for how to 'balance' Riven, but most want to remove too much of her core play style. I don't want her removed or her core play style completely changed. Regarding her animation canceling: I think it should be kept. It gives her combos complexity and higher skill cap, and regardless of original intent it has become a central part of her combo-based play style. Summary: keep her animation canceling; it's a big part of her combo-based play style.

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Now, I want to look back at the last Riven nerf: the projectile speed decrease on her ultimate Windslash. This was SUCH A GOOD IDEA because of the addition of some more counter-play to her kit: her ult is more easily flashed. This is the type of change Riven needs: one that adds some more counter play or windows of opportunity for her opponents in lane. Thus, I think her Q, W, and R should bot be the focus od a tuning for Riven. Tune her shield-dash E: Valor.

1. Decrease her E's dash distance from 325 to 300
2. Decrease the AD scaling on her E's shield by at least 25% (from 100% AD to 75%)
3. Increase the cd of her E at every rank by 2 seconds (10/9/8/7/6 to 12/11/10/9/8)

I'm not by any means the first person to suggest these changes, but my reasoning for why this would be good is that it adds more risk to her kit. Riven is more punished for being out of position with a longer CD shield and dash later game (at max rank with 40% cdr, up from 3.6 seconds to 4.8 seconds, which can actually mean a lot in a fight), and with less AD scaling on her shield. Her base shield value could be tuned too, but you get the point: The healthiest way to go about balancing Riven is to tune her E.

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What do you guys think?