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FIora's new ultimate oversteps the concept of a duel.

Augment ELO·9/9/2015, 10:10:02 PM·2 votes·646 views

The reason why FIora's ultimate is problematic right now has a lot of reasons, but I'm going to go over the balance one first. So your usual late game, Fiora with tons of life steal dives on our adc. Now she has two life steal items and a lot of damage, but we have three members their including both damage dealers and are about to take her out, and she's completely alone. With all of her upfront burst (doesn't make sense for a "duelist"), she has just enough damage to kill our Jinx. The combination of the massive aoe heal with her life steal turns what should have been a suicide into a 1v3.

Now, the thematic reason, is that while the ult makes sense in lane, it feels stupid when you are overall winning the fight, but they manage to cc one squishy and fiora hits them once before the team nukes them to death and suddenly they are at full hp.

Two solutions I can think of are either weakening the heal based on how many marks Fiora hits before they die, or spreading the heal out more and forcing Fiora to proc at least 2 marks to get it.

Any thoughts?

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2 Comments

Mecha MaIphite9/9/2015, 11:10:30 PM1 votes

If she got three crits in a row, that's luck. That can happen with any champ with crit chance.

It also means that you let her get three crits off rather than peeling her off immediately.

Augment ELO9/10/2015, 3:15:35 AM1 votes

I'm kind of ticked off how you jump straight to the three crits thing and miss the main subject of the post, so I've removed it. The point is, once Fiora gets one kill you pretty much can't kill her (or her team). Against any other assassin you can afford to protect only priority targets, since if the assassin blows their full burst on the support/top and dies in exchange, it's usually worth because your adc gets free reign. With Fiora you need to protect EVERYONE, if Fiora gets one kill that's the fight. The same could be said of Katarina, except that Kat doesn't heal her whole team to full after getting a kill, and is useless if she can't get a kill. The heal needs to be weaker, or spread out at the very least.