u/cementfan451

I just saw the August clip talking about why Riven doesn't have innate armor pen

He said She has to give something up for it but never actually gave a reason as to why She has no armor pen, I can only assume he means her ad rations/cd make up for the lack of armor pen?

We can take a look at a recent release in Ambessa , this champion has same or arguably better mobility than riven while having %Max health, Armor pen and Spell vamp all in her base kit so She can kill tanks,can still one tap squishies and sustain

In this very sub I believe everyone actually sees the issue and where the frustation comes with Riven, a few patches ago this champion was Exodia on 3 items but no one likes playing Riven like they play Kayle

Give Riven some early game strengh so you dont do 0 damage when enemy takes tabis and Nerf her late game so She doesnt become Exodia If She gets ahead

Btw If you're one of the Riven haters lurking this sub , please go ahead and Pick her up, I guarantee you that you will drop at least 500LP

I Q up Riven. Enemy picks Viktor . I cant touch a minion without eating Q E Empowered auto. Cant engage , he has boneplating + W . Do I care ? I do not. I farm. I kill him sidelane. I E R flash Q3 AA W R2 his adc. He explodes. I win

I love Riven

Are there any high elo top vayne otps or any good guides on matchups out there ?

Would be very useful

Hello dear Riven mains, I'm just an outsider darius player curious about whats going on with Riven

I hear non Riven players complain she is overpowered but even diamond+ mains saying they dont like Rivens state , to be clear I'm talking about Riven toplane only

As a Darius I've faced this matchup so often that I dont have trouble in it unless the Riven is way better than me

I've tried playing her too but to me she feels like a bit of a musquito where you just Q delay to take bone platings with the occasional q w aa e , She feels very weak in an all in If youre 70%+ HP but any lower than that and She just blows you up at level 6

Should more of her power budget be shifted from ult form to base Q ? That kind of takes away from her fantasy possibly but I'd imagine that will make her more fun to play pre 6 and more fun to face post 6

I know some people dont like to spend money on the game but the only reason I buy timesaver vip is so I can do map stages and challenges faster but for some reason you dont have 2x speed in PvP battles

PvP is already not worth playing for the rewards since they basically give you nothing but making them take so much longer also makes it less desirable to play

Have the people at E&P ever adressed this?

Took a break from Darius and toplane in general to try and get masters on jg

Coming back to Darius and toplane I've started playing the stormraider exhaust ghost blade build and it feels insanely strong, viable every single game

Every fight feels like you have a budget ghost but you get to take sorcery tree AND resolve, only loss you have is conq damage which isnt that noticeable + u go ghostblade so you end up doing more damage than stride conq

Having exhaust in lane feels so strong again so many matchups but also in team fights , combined with ms from storm raider some matchups become so much easier

For example against Jax if you catch him with your Q and he doesnt Q into you to dodge you can auto w and IT will proc your rune , from here you can choose to space him while u wait for Q cd, he cant jump on you and E since u r so fast but he cant auto you either

Imo this is way stronger than ghost conq , havent faced a Darius with exhaust yet myself but it must be very scary to lane into

Hello , I'm a darius player looking for an ap champ to play whenever darius is banned/doesnt work and I like gweb but I hear she's a bit hard to make work

Is she the type of champ you have to otp to do well on?