@RITO I really like the ideas behind Fiora's new gameplay, HOWEVER:

ShinTwist·7/21/2015, 7:02:02 PM·33 votes·2,170 views

I'm curious why her visual design was changed? It's worrying that Riot has been doing this to more champions lately, like GP. Not simply changing their clothes or armour, but their faces and voices. Why? A change of hair style and clothing is one thing, changing their face entirely makes it feel like a champion you liked has been replaced by a body snatcher.

Can you not hire back the same VAs? I'm actually really hoping Fiora keeps her previous VA, her lines were the one tolerable thing about laning against her.

Aside from this, like I said, GJ, Rito.

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18 Comments

Only Play Darius7/21/2015, 7:29:20 PM19 votes

Old Fiora may have been little more than a shitty version of MasterYi , but hey most of us really liked her visual design. I love her splash arts and hate the new one. And her face is overstylized, before she was a pretty french girl, now she looks like an arrogant snob (which fits her lore more but I disapprove nonetheless.)

NemeBro7/21/2015, 9:55:26 PM12 votes

I haven't even read what her new abilities even are, because I don't care.

Look at Fiora's new portrait. She's not Fiora anymore. And why not? What about her art design was so bad and out of date it needed changing?

Nothing at all needed changing. Riot is doing so for... you know, I'm not really sure why. Because fuck the people who liked Fiora's old appearance and design? Because they felt like it needed to be changed even though people might have liked it?

No one ever thought Fiora needed her visual reworked, it was only her gameplay that was an issue.

But naw man, fuck that. Don't fix what isn't broken? Riot's like fuck that shit, we're gonna George Lucas your favorite champion all up in this bitch, since creatively it made sense to us because we wanted it to happen.

Also, the new art just looks worse than the new art, particularly around the facial area. She looks sweaty and out of breath, lol.

gj Riot.

RedCyclone7/21/2015, 10:44:00 PM6 votes

Sona is a perfect example of a texture update done right I have no idea how things have gone backwards, make some management changes

TheMillenniumGod7/21/2015, 7:26:28 PM6 votes

She looks like a Pixar character now

DWT123457/21/2015, 7:03:31 PM5 votes

Im fine with her visual design. Lets me forget about the old fiora. (shudder)

Canavar7/21/2015, 10:13:05 PM3 votes

I use Fiora alot. I liked her old kit but this new kit looks good aswell it shows it will take skill to use and is what I like maybe now the pro people will start using her. However I'm not so sure bout her new look the new kit seems pretty good but that new look i mean i don't mean to be rude but it seems like it has been downgraded from the orginal. Felt like could of done better on the artwork. How Fiora looks now is meh okay i prefer using my skin nightraven and could care less bout royalguard but the new default look sad to say the old default skin looks better. However when the new Fiora arrives I'm pretty sure that letting HeadMistress out of the vault just for the new Fiora coming out for Fiora players to buy that didn't get a chance to buy at Halloween and would like to buy now espcially me would be amazing to allow players to buy that skin for a limited time then taking it away. Since she only has three skins so it would be nice to let out HeadMistress skin when the Fiora rolls out. =D

Vistha Kai7/21/2015, 7:04:46 PM3 votes

Actually, her VO was the sole reason I refused to even buy her.

SpecterVonBaren7/22/2015, 12:26:44 AM3 votes

For me, I'm not so troubled by her new look so much, it looks good, for me the one thing I don't like is how she went from being mostly silver to now having a lot of gold. While I understand that they're trying to make it so silver and red are Noxus and gold and blue are Demacia, I much prefer the silver color for her, it gives a sense of regalness without being full of yourself.

Erockandroll7/21/2015, 8:14:57 PM1 votes

Sounded to me like the Art team had a big hard on for the new champion design. Though that's really not going to be shared with her other skins. (hopefully) Though I don't think her old skin was that bad. (maybe a little plain) But if the Art team still likes the new design, they could just release it as a new skin. (and hopefully not make classic Fiora a skin.)

MetalGearTeemu7/22/2015, 9:19:50 PM1 votes

its groundwork so they can rewrite her lore as a transexual, hence why they needed to change the red highlights to purple. :^) and give her Tarics face.

ShinTwist7/23/2015, 3:19:49 AM1 votes

Riot has still avoided every thread on the murder and replacement of either Fiora or GP, RADIO SILENCE IS SCARY.