Those Fiora buffs would only make sense if you removed the 14 different buffs she didn't need

PaffWasTaken·9/16/2019, 3:22:23 AM·53 votes·15,506 views

That's right: in the last 2 years, throughout Riot's unfaltered crusade of trying to force Fiora into a competitive 100% pick or ban, she got 14 different buffs to her abilities, not even including bugfixes who possibly increased her consistency. The thing is, those 14 buffs barely did anything to her winrate until now. Because they were insufficient? Oh god no. The reason her winrate is STILL not anywhere near the 80% mark that Riot is seemingly aiming for is because all those buffs were aimed at making her win laning phase at any cost (in which she excels at at the moment against pretty much the whole toplane roster already) instead of helping her win games, which is pretty much what influences the winrate a lot more than laning phase in toplane in the current meta (let's face it: winning or losing lane top barely means anything because of vertical jungling and insane snowballing most laners are able of).

Fiora is the kind of champion that, if you lane against, forces you to either spend half of your laning phase getting back to lane after being forced to recall or just spending this whole time dead. Most of the time, Fiora spends time in lane alone, and a toplaner alone in a lane is most of the time really bad for the opposing team. Well, not Fiora. She got SOOOOOO good in utterly destroying enemy laners that she just sits and wait until they come back to slap them back into fountain, but other than that? She can't splitpush and she can't take towers at a rate that could even be comparable to most other toplaners, even ranged ones. She is literally a sitting duck for the whole game, killing people left and right until the opponent gets an edge in objective and creepscore just to out-snowball her.

But now? She is getting not only one, but TWO ways of chipping turrets at an insane rate. Back in Season 6, Trundle got his only tower chipping ability other than his AS steroid to not affect towers (temporarily) anymore because abilities such as these are hard to balance, but now Fiora got two of those extremely potent tools to utterly destroy an entire lane to herself.

So, as of now Fiora is already an unbeatable laner with pretty much no disadvantages other than not putting a lot of pressure on empty lanes, but this will change drastically with the upcoming buffs. As already explained, you don't spend a lot of time during laning phase in your lane when you are against Fiora, and now every single second she is alone with your turret early on or anywhere splitpushing later is a direct threat to your chances of winning the game in an ever increasing rate that easily surpasses almost every other toplaners as of now. And you can't do much about it: the only weakness of an already over the top powercrept champion is finally getting fixed, so now she is basically fault-free. So its definitely time you remove those 14 other attempts at making her winrate rise instead of just letting this huge mistake train hit the rails on the rift, because those upcoming buffs aren't some placebo ones like those others and them getting combined together is not going to be good at all.

50 Comments

Ragnaveil9/16/2019, 3:46:47 AM17 votes

Reminder these buffs are happening because we are balancing solely by numbers, and not by how the champ feels or works with the winrate/pickrate/banrate being considered.

preternatural9/16/2019, 9:10:45 AM12 votes

I keep saying on the boards that she's overbuffed

Juice9/16/2019, 6:28:28 AM9 votes

Every champion has some gimmick after season 5, Fiora's gimmick is that she is always ahead of you, no matter what.

If she is 0-3 and you are 3-0 , well, she is ahead of you even if she whiffs her W completely, but if she stuns you or slows your AS with it then she is SUPER ahead of you.

Just few days ago I played against a really bad Fiora who I absolutely dominated as Renekton, I'm talking she had 60 farm while I had 160, it was a literal bot player, I was lv12 and she was lv8 and she almost killed me ( I had to blow my ulti and my ignite just to kill her or else she'd gotten me )

Charmy Bird9/17/2019, 7:06:11 AM4 votes

Fiora is so unfun to play against, she has her stupid dash every 2 seconds and she's guaranteed to hit vitals because her q doesn't rl need to aim, she deflects cc and reduces attack speed which I find stupid and deals true dmg while having insane heals armor on her doesn't do shit

Zero Shingetsu9/16/2019, 3:29:47 AM3 votes

I need to start playing Fiora again.

RebeccaUCuber9/16/2019, 4:20:35 PM3 votes

I mean...i wouldn't buff any champ more than 2-3 times in a row. I would maybe touch someone else in need or too OP

Cosmochris9/16/2019, 7:47:44 PM3 votes

Imagine dying to her once in lane lvl 6 and having 3-4 plates taken out from a full hp turret by the time you come back to lane. Yeah thats what a fiora did to me before, imagine what'll happen when her buff gets through. Like doing 3k true dmg within 4 seconds isn't enough for Riot.

Verxint9/17/2019, 1:59:57 AM3 votes

Riot has always done this. They refuse to address the one thing that needs changing, try to change everything else twice over and it doesn't solve the problem, then they finally fix what needs fixing but leave all the other changes. Then when the champ inevitably ends up in a bad state, instead of just reverting some of those older changes they so something else from left field.

Impossiblew19/17/2019, 6:31:30 PM1 votes

now it's u turn to suffer

Daddy Ants9/16/2019, 10:03:31 AM1 votes

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That's right: in the last 2 years, throughout Riot's unfaltered crusade of trying to force Fiora into a competitive 100% pick or ban, she got 14 different buffs to her abilities, not even including bugfixes who possibly increased her consistency. The thing is, those 14 buffs barely did anything to her

She's like Renekton in the sense that they keep throwing buffs at her but she's barely holding on to a 50% win rate.

Cloud2739/16/2019, 8:32:31 PM1 votes

Even with these buffs she'll still be garbage. I'd much rather have a Jax or a Tryndamere on my team then Fiora.