Thoughts on picking up Riven (or other top lane champ)?

xvshanevx·3/16/2015, 7:48:05 PM·1 votes·1,415 views

Hi Everyone!

So, first off, I suck at top lane and am just looking for a fun champ to play when ever I get stuck in top lane. I currently have ~6000 ip to spend, and was thinking of getting for the safe early game. But over the week, when was free, I played her in a couple of bot matches and I found her extremely fun to play. But this was in bot matches, and I've heard of the high skill cap needed for her, which might make her more of a problem for me seeing I have little experience in top lane and my only top lane champs I have are and .

Any thoughts?

tl;dr: I suck at top, need a fun or easy champ when I get stuck there.

11 Comments

Pæan3/16/2015, 7:52:56 PM2 votes

Not so much easy but Jayce is incredibly fun to me. Riven needs to be overly aggressive and get ahead quickly in her lane in order to be much use mid-late game. If you get really far behind as riven your damage isnt going to be there and youre still squishy.

Currently champions like Lissandra , Vladimir , and Swain are strong up top and are pretty simple to play imo.

Most of the supposed "god-tier" champs on this list are pretty straight-forward to play --------> http://www.nerfplz.com/2015/03/2015-champion-tier-list-solo-queue.html

The Sword Saint3/16/2015, 7:59:14 PM2 votes

Don't pick up riven for pvp matches as something casual to do when you get the role, despite all everyone's whining she actually has a pretty high amount of mechanical ability and matchup knowledge required to even do decent with her - and the amount of skill and knowledge to play her only gets higher as you face better players since she is required to outplay the enemy to do her job and merely farming evenly is a failure. On top of that, she's the kind of champion who gets snowballed against hard if she get's behind and becomes completely useless unless you have the kind of skill with her that makes it unlikely to fall behind in the first place.

I guess what I'm saying is, Riven is a bad choice for a casual addition to your competitive champ pool unless you intend to go out and play hundreds of games with her first and read all kinds of guides, practice all kinds of combos, train with friends against all kinds of lanes, etc. You can probably play at a mid silver level with her with some basic knowledge of what she does and some casual practice, but if you want to have any kind of reliability I would recommend that you either main her or pick someone else for your pocket top laner.

FedAsFuk3/16/2015, 8:56:48 PM2 votes

If you are looking for easy, absolutely do NOT go Riven. On all my accounts I had close to 1000 Riven games last season, and I still could not tell you how best to play a certain matchup, if you don' mind playing an animation cancel dependent champ (without animation cancelling you really are doing 1/2 of your potential damage), a very high skill cap champ, one of the squishiest champs in the game that HAS to dive into the enemy team to be effective, then I would very much recommend her, because for me she is the most fun champ in the game, hell she is the champ I play exclusively.

If you do decide to play her feel free to add me in game and ask any questions you may have

Seattle Scrub3/16/2015, 9:43:10 PM2 votes

What elo are you in? Renekton, Nasus, Jax and Tryn are all good champs. Nasus and Renekton need a lot of farm to sustain and Riven scales like crazy. Jax OP lol

GummyBearWookiee3/16/2015, 10:03:51 PM2 votes

Nothing wrong with Riven...she's fun. She does have a high skill cap to master due to her animations...but that's hardly required to play her decently. For top I suggest a mixture of Tank with damage dealers. So add in Maokai with Riven and you'll be set on two great top lane choices that fill different needs depending on whether damage or tankiness is what your team will need.

Graidon3/16/2015, 10:35:32 PM2 votes

The Dunk prophecies are true.

Leti the Yeti3/16/2015, 11:28:01 PM2 votes

isnt she on free rotation like right now untill tonight? just go play her

W1K EgoicMind3/21/2015, 12:41:14 AM1 votes

I find it ridiculous that no one has mentioned or suggested Rumble for your Top Lane champion pool. I feel like his kit has so much potential, and that his ult has a huge capacity of winning your team fights and changing the outcome of losing trades, engages, fights or games!

If you don't knw why you should learn him, check out videos and this Guidelines http://www.lolking.net/guides/336905 to get an understanding of what makes Rumble your strongest pick!