Frustration Fighting Fiora

TheFancySkeleton·7/10/2017, 12:07:43 AM·14 votes·1,317 views

Fiora is probably my least favourite champion in this entire game, even to the point where I developed an eye twitch merely upon seeing her. How does one deal with such a beast? I hate her voice, design, moveset, basically everything about her. She's good early, middle, and late. What or who do I pick to destroy and erase this thing out of existence?

78 Comments

l Dárius l7/10/2017, 4:11:50 AM5 votes

dont believe people telling you she has counters

the only time fiora has a counter is when the player is retarded

ban her every game like i do

DragonShea7/10/2017, 11:40:18 AM3 votes

I think that Rework Urgot might fuck her up.

LoLN0087/10/2017, 2:26:08 AM3 votes

turn off your volume so you cant hear her stupid accent and ive had some success with rumble

paisy7/10/2017, 11:58:23 AM3 votes

Pantheon

ReySolomon7/10/2017, 12:19:36 AM2 votes

I went Vlad and it worked out fine we were both 0-0 for 20 minutes xD!

hi ìm groot7/10/2017, 12:29:12 AM2 votes

Fiora loses 1v1 to almost all top laners before items, because her passive scales off AD. Gotta use this and punish her early so she takes longer to become relevant. But by about 20 mins in she's suppose to be able to 1v1 anyone unless you managed to dominate her, she's a hard scaling duelist.

If you're losing to her early, then you need to be more mobile and aware of your vital points because thats the only way she can be outtrading you unless you're playing a very weak early top laner.

Inting Pillow7/10/2017, 8:51:47 AM2 votes

Camille can lane against them. In my experience. Close matchup though and dangerous because you can lose

Gnar pokes her to hell and back. Also he can disengage more effectively than she can engage so she can't get fed off him

Heimerdinger well you know how he works

Late game the only champs I think can feasible win a 1v1 are Camille with good outplays and Kled if he can get Skarl back

Foxynth7/10/2017, 1:50:03 AM2 votes

What I WANT TO KNOW IS, why she sounds not french when you ban her and she says "Poor Form", but every other ingame voice line is a completely different accent, voice pitch, etc.

Spoofghoul7/10/2017, 10:01:49 AM2 votes

u take Urgot and spam rockets in her face,

the reworked one will possibly be even better with those shotgun legs

Corriandr7/10/2017, 10:50:39 PM1 votes

For laning phase:

Teemo Good kite potential, ranged, blind prevents passive/ult procs. Important thing is you do need to do Bruiser Teemo i.e. get Frozen Mallet. Perma slow, enhanced kiting, and move speed on your W. If you mess up, you WILL die. However, Fiora is about to lose a LOT of movement speed, meaning kiting with Teemo is about to get WAY easier.

Jayce Is strong due to his range harass and pushing capability, but don't waste your knock back. It can be easy to see coming as a lot of times most only run away and don't orb walk, turning around ONLY to do the knock back. I'll call this a skill match up slightly favoring the Jayce as he has the tools to keep himself safe, but can get easily punished.

Lissandra is a mixed bag. She has an instant AoE snare and means of escaping in her kit, combined with her ult to CC Fiora or Protect herself, but she just is not in a good spot right now. And if you use your snare the same time everytime, you will get stunned, and likely die. I can SEE it, she just needs some tuning right now.

Jax Pre-6 stay safe. Your level 1 is stronger due to counter strike, so try and do a quick cheese, especially if you can deny that initial vital proc. At level 6, keep track of your autos to best harass, attempting to trade when you have that 3rd empowered auto WITH your W Empower. It's a surprising amount of damage. DO NOT waste your counter strike. That's the signal for Fiora to go in as your strongest tool is now on cooldown - it is like Fiora's W. Keep it up, wait for the all in, use counter, vary the times you do it to get the stun, orb walk for positioning. Use your leap to escape if needed, or go for the finish.

Irelia My go to for fighting Fiora in lane. Who stuns = who wins the trades. Early phase favors Irelia, scaling favors Fiora. However, Irelia has better overall teamfight than Fiora.

Gnar Always intended to be one of Fiora's counters, but was in a bad spot prebuffs. After buffs I've been seeing him more and more, and he is very strong against her. If you don't know how to play him, you'll be punished, but once you get used to it, it's in your favor. Mini Gnar is stronger solo, Mega Gnar to finish when low and you have a jungler to help and you only need to hit one of your stuns.

Shen He's actually pretty good. NOT an "instant win" as you can lose if you mess up, but the lane is in your favor. Better global presence to snowball other lanes via ult + TP back to lane meaning he doesn't get behind. His AOE dodge thing prevents vital procs as those are on hit affects from auto attacks, and he can trade successfully via his %health magic damage. Combine that with his taunt to prevent Fiora from using skills and bringing her into minions and your dodge, trades can be won handily (Fiora is rather squishy; minions hurt). Better believe she is going to be watching those cool downs like a hawk, but Shen certainly isn't weak. She can W Shen's taunt, BUT Shen's taunt is a dash and, if aimed correctly, you can use it to dodge her attempted stun, and it is on a shorter cooldown than her W.

Singed Eeeeeeeh. That said, this next patch Fiora losses a lot of movement speed and he will gain a lot. Should end up favoring him now.

Tryndamere RNG with your crits and capability to orb walk to deny a vital makes this in slight favor of Trynd. That said, his teamfight is even worse than hers unless you just completely and utterly snowball.

Kennen Funny thing about Kennen ult; Fiora can W the stun from the ult, but the moment that .75 seconds of invulnerability are up, the ult ticks again and will stun after.

Pantheon

TahmKench I cannot comment, I simply never see him. In teamfights, though, he is super annoying. Eat whoever she is ulting, spit them to safety, and super tanky with "lol 2 life bars".

Riven Skill??? Definitely a snowball either way, though; who gets ahead = who dominates the lane.

Don't play against her:

Darius Gangplank Garen Gragas JarvanIV Vladimir Yorick Ekko Aatrox DrMundoKled

Unsure as to Quinn, she's simply not played much. She is a ranged and strong laner with a means of escape, but it is a hard CC and CAN be used to stun you. Your blind will help escape so long as you keep distance as well, but Fiora gains laning/dueling power at level 6 while Quinn doesn't.

Keep in mind, this is for Gold/Silver, and taking into account only lane strength. Possibility that things differ in higher Elos.

SpookyNeedle7/10/2017, 6:10:26 AM1 votes

According to op.gg, her winrate is best in early and late, but suffers a good bit mid game