My thoughts on Fiora's Riposte the the general mechanics of it

Right now Fiora isn't overpowered but she isn't weak or average either. She's currently the best splitpusher in the game and also does a fairly good job in teamfights. A lot of the frustration from Fiora is that her CC on riposte lasts a whole 3 seconds and the attack speed slow cripples nearly everyone who plays toplane. Its so bad that Yi is the only person who can duel her with an even gold lead because he doesn't get his AS slowed by riposte. Removing the Attack speed slow is too drastic so I was thinking about how to let her retain her Attack speed slow and I see 2 options

1. Nerf the duration or the slow Right now its a 50% slow for 1.5 whole seconds. the easiest solution would be to nerf the slow to about 30% or lower the duration to 0.75 seconds

2. Make it so that she gets her AS slow upon parrying a SOFT cc This is the one i thought of and the one that i would prefer for several reasons A. It rewards Fiora for predicting her opponent (like a Riposting duelist should) and it gives the opponent a way to play around the riposte besides "dodge the riposte or you lose because your crippled" Right now Fiora doesn't NEED to parry hard cc to effectively duel because riposte lets her do that regardless of whether or not she predicted the cc B. A straight up nerf wouldn't fix the underlying problem of her getting rewarded for not actually riposting anything. A riposte (or parry) is meant to Take the Opponents strength and use it against them As such it makes sense gameplay wise and thematically for her to receive her parry on a soft cc C. This wouldn't nerf a Good Fiora significantly but it would make her less effective in the hands of beginners, because good Fiora's would be able to predict the soft cc and get the slow. D. Very few champions have no form of soft cc meaning that Fiora would nearly always have something to Riposte to Receive her current slow. YI (Who already wins the duel anyways)

I'll admit i'm not a huge Fiora player but i've been thinking over several days on what would be a good way to nerf her so that she's less frustrating to play against and less useful in the hands of beginners while maintaining skill expression for Experienced Fiora players and this is the best thing I can come up with.

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