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What happened to Fiora?

J3wSt0MP3R·11/30/2016, 2:59:39 AM·1 votes·870 views

Used to see her a lot last season, a few times this season so far, (S6). I've tried playing her, not too sure what to build or kinda how to play her. I understand the vitals and her passive, as well as her ult. It just seems so hard to land your ult on someone in the middle of a team fight and finish it off to get the reward for you and your team... seem to die pretty fast after I use my parry... Maybe I'm playing her wrong, but I've done some research and seemed to find a lot of people have had the same issues as far as itemization and overall late game identity goes. Any tips, comments, or thoughts would be appreciated.

Seems like Riot had this awesome duelist planned out and according to patch notes of recent she recieved a rework that some may call a nerf. I am curious if Riot has plans to revisit her since she seems like such a rewarding champion to master.

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15 Comments

Critmaster Garen11/30/2016, 3:12:15 AM1 votes

she was nerfed pretty hard. they gave her some changes that were appropriate, and some nerfs that were inappropriate imo. the thing is, she needed changes at the time due to her overwhelming bruiser builds.

the changes to her passive were neccessary, removing the base damage, and increasing the bonus ad scaling. it gives her an incentive to actually stack damage to make it useful.

the nerf to her w cooldown was a gigantic mistake. nerfing her w didnt just nerf bruiser fiora. it hit the one ability in her kit, that makes her intended playstile (full on squishy adc fiora) viable in the first place.

if you ask me, her w cooldown should scale down with attack speed, or lethality or something, so she still gets 6 seconds on the ability at rank 5 with 40% cdr, when shes going for a glass cannon build, instead of the current 10 seconds.

Great Muta11/30/2016, 3:27:38 AM1 votes

She took the good ole Rito 1-2-3 combo where you overbuff, overnerf and forget.

Calabok11/30/2016, 3:28:12 AM1 votes

nothing happened to her. she's still crazy OP

Anonagon11/30/2016, 4:22:58 AM1 votes

I think she's pretty balanced right now, if a little too weak in the hands of a non-main.

Now I took a look at your match history, and I noticed one thing that I think is hurting your Fiora in particular; Grasp of the Undying. Even if Fervor is in a weak spot right now, its still the best Keystone for Fiora (with Warlords as an option to overcome bad matchups).

JafarThePanda11/30/2016, 5:31:31 AM1 votes

She's still busted and gets ridiculous amounts of true damage that would make Ahri and Velkoz jealous