Mechanics are Overrated. Says the #1 EUW Riven

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The #1 RivenEU player in League of Legends AloisNL smurfs on challenger elo. Talks about how Riven players overcomplicate the mechanics.

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0:00 | Intro
3:20 | The most important part of a top lane
7:01 | Approaching a team fight
10:04 | Mechanics are over-complicated

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[AloisNL]

Hey man! Thank you so much for making this video together, absolutely lovely result :D

[DJ_RH]

Impressive, very nice, now let's see the #2 Riven.

[myb]

I love that even if he isn't a super mechanical player, most outplays in the video are still sick AF and masterfully use Riven's basic mechanics and limits.

[sebastitd]

This is what I've always said, Champions like Riven, the Windshitter bros, Akali and Irelia are all champions whose mains int on them because they outplay themselves.

It's like a fancy toolbox full of all sorts of fancy, state-of-the-art tools. Sure, you have everything you'd need to tackle any situation, but if it's too complicated to use and you in your hurry for finishing the job try to rush things, things will break. What Alois does is he knows what his tools do, and he uses them in a way that's consistent and reliable, not trying any fancy tricks. I respect him for that for sure.

[Mason-kdzr]

Alois: *almost full stacks conqueror in a perfect combo*
Alois: *waits a moment for cooldowns, then hits ignite at the last second to stack it up to 12*
Alois: *taps an auto at the last second to keep the stacks up*
Alois: *combos for the the full stack kill*

Also Alois: "Mechanic don't matter on riven, guys."

[leschopinesns]

I don't know what you guys look at in term of Riven, but I've mained Riven for some time and all the people I used to look at were all challenger, and mastered the basics unlike said in the video.
Also, it is said that AloisNL only masters 3 combo and doesn't use flashy plays, but we see him land a perfect or near perfect E 3rd Q F on 3 ennemies at some point in the video.
Moreover, it is emphasized that AloisNL thinks about Riven as a "reset" champion, which honeslty all challenger Riven player think about her. The real difficulty about Riven always have been spacing and using your kit over and over while opponents run out of cds.
I get the point of the video, which is that Riven isn't about mechanics only, she's about mastering the basics and enough mechanics to make her work (i.e necessaries combos), but I feel like the video is lying to us to a certain extent. Riven is maybe more mechanical than described (and not shown !) here, and I feel like people that are good at her know about her basics a lot more than the video make it seem.

[titon]

I think his message is that
He has the mechanics of a challenger player. Not of a riven one trick. Cuz his micro is still absurdly clean.

[francofouche]

Alois is honestly such a beast he's made me go for being the worst on my team when i play riven to being a constant carry, this guys game knowledge is worth gold

[melio]

Every single clip is an insane outplay where he flashes or uses zhonyas in the perfect moment and cancels animations

[sr.]

Can we just stop and witness for a second the shen at 2:34 absolutely WHIFFING his dash on not only 1, but two Champs who both didn't have their dash ability activated.

[fahedmbarek]

Love you man, I love how in-depth you go into this game you are like Vsauce of league lol

[givemethree]

I think it's really funny how much emphasis you put on him not caring about mechanics that much yet show dozens of clips where he executes rather difficult mechanics with ease xD

[locm]

like how the hell do u say this guy has no mechanics and its not needed and you are talking about wave management and then he just insta doublecast cvombo into poppy that was freezing his wave xD. min 5:00

[taurusking_]

Donghua just wanted to say that your content is great. Keep it going! 😎

[JOHNRED]

0:06 I really thought Dong was gonna drop the fattest verse when he started talking.

[amidsid]

isn't built usually higher up in the ladder?

[kaydegarde]

Please keep going these champion master interviews, really amazing.

[Oslo-vw]

Thought built was the best riven on euw

[Kasdog]

His mechanics are really good! I like the mindset he has though! All learning rivens should watch this vid!

[NiklasNeo]

lol never thought to see Alois on your Channel! :D
Great Job as always!