New Fiora Buff

ZerglingOne··1 votes·529 views

So one of the goals Riot had with new Fiora was to make her more spell reliant than she was before. Well, that didn't happen with her current iteration so I had an idea to maybe improve how she feels to play both in a team fight setting and in a laning setting.

Now, I believe she should be relatively gated by her mana in general so as not to feel too much like Yasuo's worst case scenario. So keep that in mind with this change.

Q: Lunge Current: refunds 60% of its cool down when striking an enemy. This is okay, but I think it needs one more little thing to make her feel a bit more fluid as a character.

Change: If Fiora strikes a vital with lunge, its full cool down is refunded

Okay, so this accomplishes many things. First, it gives her a very quick in and out that she can do to harass her opponent. It makes her ultimate more usable in general while also giving it a similar feel to old Blade Waltz without the untargetability. It makes the main complaint about her cooldowns being so long less valid. It gives her a very real mana gate instead of her just having mana because reasons. And finally, it makes her more spell reliant which is what Riot wanted in the first place.

I also feel this is a relatively fair buff because if she's using lunge to go out of her lane opponent's reach, she's expending a total of 80 mana to basically poke them and it makes her ultimate should she choose to lunge at all 4 vitals cost 260 mana.

8 Comments

ZerglingOne1 votes

Bump

Phife1 votes

No you're doing it all wrong.

Just make Fiora's Q when hitting a champion lunges her at said champion. That way shes in range to strike other vitals as needed.... One of the biggest problems with fioras kit at the moment is the fact she cannot hit moving targets vitals, just their asses.

ZerglingOne1 votes

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No you're doing it all wrong.

Just make Fiora's Q when hitting a champion lunges her at said champion. That way shes in range to strike other vitals as needed.... One of the biggest problems with fioras kit at the moment is the fact she cannot hit moving targets vitals, just their asses.

I'm pretty sure she's supposed to have issues hitting vitals of moving targets...

Did you not read any of why this would be a good change? It makes her feel more like fiora should, gives her better engagement, and makes her ultimate usable albeit expensive.

Phife1 votes

Reseting the cooldown on her CORE damaging ability would be broken, you have to have a little understanding of balance. not complete over the top power.

ZerglingOne1 votes

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Reseting the cooldown on her CORE damaging ability would be broken, you have to have a little understanding of balance. not complete over the top power.

Yes, and its damage could be changed to compensate for the utility. You're acting like she's actually usable in her current state. She gets beaten by every decent match up and has no presence in a fight other than ulting a low target, popping a vital, and hoping they die for the heal.

Phife1 votes

Or you could just make her Q kinda like her old one and it would actually bring your character to the enemy...

I dont think you're completely grasping the idea of 'NO COOLDOWN' complete spammable ability that would allow you to pop vitals, and would attack faster than your autos. no CDR builds because you have no cooldown... etc

Just think about it.

ZerglingOne1 votes

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Or you could just make her Q kinda like her old one and it would actually bring your character to the enemy...

I dont think you're completely grasping the idea of 'NO COOLDOWN' complete spammable ability that would allow you to pop vitals, and would attack faster than your autos. no CDR builds because you have no cooldown... etc

Just think about it.

It's completely based around the vitals. If you're spamming it, it's going to murder your mana pool.

When I say no cooldown what I mean is more like Cassiopeia E on a poisoned target. .5 seconds.

Plus it still has dash time and the attack is at the end of the dash.

MasterSomething1 votes

No way. This would make Fiora utterly BROKEN. The new Fiora is fine as is. If you ARE having trouble hitting moving targets (which means your opponents are SMART) then buy a Frozen Mallet, or use your slow on your E.

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