Critique my Fiora build

Strawberrycocoa·May 25, 2015·1 votes·553 views

So I picked up Fiora yesterday after not playing her since her initial release week when I first unlocked her. She's crazy, and I've had some good results with her. I'd like to see if I can workout a base build for her.

My first game I built .

I gotta figure is a must-have because it adds a crazy amount of extra damage to her ult. But I'm not sure is preferable over a since raw AD fuels her burst skills. Also not sure if I should get or after ; makes for bigger spike damage from crits, would stack more Lifesteal for to function with.

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67chromeMay 25, 20152 votes

I'd like to see if I can workout a base build for her.

I've generally found item 3074 item 3071 item 3035 to be her core build in Rift.

Mostly your goal is to assassinate things with her impressive AD burst regardless of the circumstances, and the only 2 stats that help you do that are AD and armor penetration.

Fallowing with a Sword of the Divine was amaze-balls with this route to (sad to see it go), because 3 crits riding off of mega-AD and armor pen, with Fiora's 35 AD booster and 120% AS, was basically a with 3 charges on top of her combo: and with being another Lich Bane proc that doesn't even require an AA - good times.

If you play in Treelines or Dominion, which is mostly where I've played my Fiora games (really fun with Fiora because she's better than a solid 70~80% of the roster in either map), then you can go:

item 3142 item 3153 item 3035 and have some fun.

Ghostblade and Kingblade are both for situations where you can auto-attack things to death or chase opponents within a fairly extended duel, which is actually fairly uncommon in Rift once you can actually get a decent build going.

With this build - you're a melee attack-damage carry where it can actually work, and with an early/mid-game set-up on top of it.

item 3031 item 3087 item 3035 is super-late game, and you're basically going to do nothing early (and sacrifice a solid chunk of early/mid power) for a near late-game exclusive build. Not a huge fan of this route, particularly due to the massive power-sink you get yourself in building with it's heavy component costs and the fact Fiora is one of the single worst champions in the game when it comes to CSing.

Like, Fiora is levels of bad at clearing minion waves. No AoE in her kit, no ranged poke, you just have to melee minions.

For boots - I'd generally go for item 3158 on Fiora.

%CDR is fairly difficult to come by on the AD glass-cannon side of things, Fiora's ult is amaze-balls, having 10~20% CDR makes Lunge x2 better from my experiences (off CD right when you need it again rather than 2 seconds to late), and it generally gives the amount of %CDR you really want on her.

Still, get item 3047 or item 3111 if the lane match-up warrants it.

Anyways: item 3074 item 3071 item 3035 + item 3158 is probably your safest bet.

StrawberrycocoaMay 25, 20151 votes

Thank you for the tips. One question. I haven't really seen any sign of bad CSing on my (small, like three so far) Fiora games. Possibly because I've been rushing Hydra, so she has the persistant AOE from that to slap down a minion wave.

Lucidity boots is a hella good idea. I've bene building Berserker Greaves, but attack speed items don't seem all that useful on her, she feels like more of a dive-and-flee type.

NemeBroMay 25, 20151 votes

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So I picked up Fiora yesterday after not playing her since her initial release week when I first unlocked her. She's crazy, and I've had some good results with her. I'd like to see if I can workout a base build for her.

My first game I built .

I gotta figure is a must-have because it adds a crazy amount of extra damage to her ult. But I'm not sure is preferable over a since raw AD fuels her burst skills. Also not sure if I should get or after ; makes for bigger spike damage from crits, would stack more Lifesteal for to function with.

Drop the infinity edge. Bloodthirster is generally better, as it gives you even greater lifesteal, especially when using your ultimate.

Everything else is basically fine if you're going for a glass cannon build. Keep in mind you can drop the youmu's and guardian angel for some more defense. A Randuin's Omen combined with a Spirit Visage would make you a fairly tough nut to crack, especially with the extra life steal bonus from the spirit visage.

Ionian's are better than berserker's greaves IMO, yeah.