"Riven Does Have Legitimate Problems," Acknowledges Riot Games
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Riven's Low Play Rate
Riven is one of the oldest champions in League of Legends, having gotten released in 2011. In the last few patches, this top lane champion has had a hard time staying relative.
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Reasons Behind Low Play Rate
Riot Phroxzon acknowledged that Riven is certainly at one of the lower play rates that she has had in a long time. According to him and the developer team, here are some of the reasons behind her low pick rate.
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High Skill Cap
Riven is also a champion who has a high-skill cap.
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Animation Cancelling
A lot of her abilities have animation cancelling.
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Future for Riven
Riot Games currently has a vague idea of how to treat her, it will be using the very Twitter thread to seek feedback from the playerbase.
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Weakness of Riven
Riven does have some legitimate problems. Firstly she's a bit weak.
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One-Tricks
Riven is a champion who has a lot of one-tricks and that most of her matchups are feast or famine.
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Riot Games Tweaks
It will be interesting to see when and what Riot Games does to tweak Riven in the future.