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Riven Nerf???????

7zhas1oVlI·9/30/2015, 12:43:02 AM·4 votes·1,385 views

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Honestly, I have ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE as to why is getting nerfed. Apart from your occasional low elo player complaining about how broken is, she is the true EPITOME of balance right now. Strong early, Strong mid-game, Okay-late game, shut down massively by cc, and no matter what people say, not that difficult to lane against. As of now, 's main damage form is from her passive, and the ability to stack it. Making it only stack to one COMPLETELY INVALIDATES some of the MOST IMPORTANT damage combos and animation cancels. worst thing about this is that if it goes to live, Riot will have to give compensation buffs which WILL turn into how she's portrayed to unknowledgable players - a faceroll, button mash insanely broken champion. I don't know who or WHY these changes "need" to be implemented, when you have champions like and literally roflstomping ALL ELOS ACROSS THE SERVERS with 90%+ ban/pickrates, when , with her 10% banrate and 50% winrate flat across all elos and servers needs such a drastic nerf. I know these nerfs are said to be "experimental," and I think that I, along with my fellow Riven players and players who ADVOCATE balance and good game design hope that these changes DO NOT go through to live.

29 Comments

Bulletproof Car9/30/2015, 1:41:06 AM6 votes

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Honestly, I have ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE as to why is getting nerfed. Apart from your occasional low elo player complaining about how broken is, she is the true EPITOME of balance right now. Strong early, Strong mid-game, Okay-late game, shut down massively by cc, and no matter what people say, not that difficult to lane against. As of now, 's main damage form is from her passive, and the ability to stack it. Making it only stack to one COMPLETELY INVALIDATES some of the MOST IMPORTANT damage combos and animation cancels. worst thing about this is that if it goes to live, Riot will have to give compensation buffs which WILL turn into how she's portrayed to unknowledgable players - a faceroll, button mash insanely broken champion. I don't know who or WHY these changes "need" to be implemented, when you have champions like and literally roflstomping ALL ELOS ACROSS THE SERVERS with 90%+ ban/pickrates, when , with her 10% banrate and 50% winrate flat across all elos and servers needs such a drastic nerf. I know these nerfs are said to be "experimental," and I think that I, along with my fellow Riven players and players who ADVOCATE balance and good game design hope that these changes DO NOT go through to live.

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SoultakerKatana9/30/2015, 12:46:34 AM4 votes

qq more

Fadedpf9/30/2015, 1:05:24 AM3 votes

Juggernauts dethroned her in the top lane. She is still in need of an actual nerf with how many strengths she has going for her.

Stephenizgod9/30/2015, 2:23:18 AM3 votes

They arent even out on the PBE yet and there is already QQing? you cant wait to actually try them for yourselves before complaining? I feel like im reading every QQ post ever. How about waiting for more information on the matter... so far we have one possible change, there could be compensation buffs or maybe they are adding something in exchange? You don't know what they are doing yet so id suggest just waiting. Btw regardless if the Juggernauts are too strong, Riven is not balanced. She is far too strong with too much mobility, CC, and survive-ability in addition to her massive damage. Having said that all she really needs is just a slight tap to her overall power to make her balanced.

The Sword Saint9/30/2015, 12:48:15 AM3 votes

It's just one of the ideas, we can't know the full effect until we see the rest. I'm excited to see what they have.

Noresta9/30/2015, 6:30:13 AM3 votes

3 Word For You Dirty Riven Player You Say Low Elo is complaining How Much She Is Broken I Say Go Watch Box Box Or A Riven Main Vs Hight Elo Player She Is Fucking Broken Spaming Your Abilities Eevry 3 Second Witch 1 Milion Dammge Without Getting Oom With a Shield Who Scale With Ad is So Fucking Broken

Baseball3b9/30/2015, 7:59:15 PM2 votes

Yeah honestly if they go through with it I really hope they give her compensation otherwise it'd pretty much destroy her.

The majority of the QQ comes from people who try laning against her like they would any other champion and they cry when it doesn't work.

SorryBoysImLes9/30/2015, 1:10:59 AM1 votes

It's not severe enough. She needs to have energy as a resource.

And make all of her skills cost 100 energy each.

That might balance her a tiny bit, but she'll still AA her way through anyone.

Seriously though: They should have just put a cooldown on her charges. That way she can't just infinitely spam all her abilities like every Riven does, and have empowered-AA after empowered-AA.

Hell, even Sheen has somewhat of a static cooldown. The way it's set up, with her lack of resource and ridiculously low CDs, it might as well just be a constant passive 20 - 50% AD increase.

Faded Lich9/30/2015, 2:28:59 AM1 votes

Can't wait to see this bitch put in her proper place with a nice gut knife :3

ApexInTheCircle9/30/2015, 10:10:38 PM1 votes

If I'm not mistaken there is a lot wrong with Riven. If I recall correctly her Auto attack canceling was never intentional and only became "intentional" at a later date. It's a mixture of things with her, It's her ability to instantly double CC you and back off without much reaction time. She's capable of escaping a tower dive because of her dash shield (which is the only shield in the game that scales with AD unless Urgot's does? I think they changed his to have an ad scaling not sure) Which is on a fairly short cooldown for the utility it brings.

She's mobile and beefy because of her shield. IMO she really doesn't falloff late game and always poses a threat. The main issue people have with her is that most of her kit let's her be un-punishable or damn near close.

Liquid Dario9/30/2015, 7:40:03 PM1 votes

Haha riven players are finally salty about their freelo champion being nerfed into the ground good give her the irelia treatment for a year or two.

Bulletproof Car9/30/2015, 1:42:30 AM1 votes

alls they are doing is fixing her bugs giving her a quality of life change