The Shit Fiora Receives

SpookyNeedle··3 votes·785 views

So Fiora, 95% of people hate her, the other 5% love her. There's no in-between.

I feel as if she's a bit like Yasuo, I hate Yasuo. She would be a worse Yasuo in mid, but a better one at top.

Addressing the complaints about laning against her, you won't win unless you build against her and play around her vitals. She will NOT hit all her parrys'. Saying how it's OP because she can parry ignite, okay let's see if you could parry ignite at any point in the game. People say she destroys everyone. She CAN, but you have to be a great predictor and have fantastic timing.

Most of those that complain about her being OP, have never seen how much tanks Irelia does, and Irelia has life steal, while Fiora has to work for her ultimate heal.

Fiora can only five if you're squishy enough or massively behind. If you focus 100% on farming and only harass sometimes, You. Will. Lose.

Make it so she can't go in. Similar to Leona, try not to engage if she has her ult. But you can win with cc really close to her face.

If you want to defeat Fiora, play her. Don't whine about it being "OP", Do your best to learn to counter her in-game.

Believe it or not, playing against things and people stronger than you will accelerate the learning process. BUT ONLY IF YOU TRY.

Strive to be the best in your lane. I can say that I'm capable of parrying most instant stuns against an Udyr or Jax. But I'm absolutely terrible against a Ryze, due to my lack of knowledge of Ryze and not playing him and learning him enough to know his weaknesses.

So instead of complaining about it, LEARN TO BEAT HER BY PLAYING HER.

Ignorance is your only downfall.

And yes, I main Fiora. But you know what? I can easily beat her in lane or in a team fight. Because I'm not blindly jumping into the bandwagon of saying she's OP and is for noobs.

Sorry for the slight saltiness, it's only because of all the hate on Fiora when no one actively tries to figure out how to beat her.

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Opportunistic2 votes

Are you kidding me? ONE parry is all it takes to turn a fight. Just one. Fiora IS over powered. I have played her. What you said is true, she CAN be countered. You know what's sad though? EVEN IF YOU DO counter her, she can still get fed off your teammates and whip your ass like when you were a kid and got the belt. She needs the true damage taken away. At least then that would make her lanning phase fair. It doesn't matter what her opponent is as far as normal top laners go.

Illâoi Evê Siôn3 votes

It's not her true damage that is making her unmanageable. After all, high-priority targets don't even have the resistances to need true damage. It's Fiora's access to that true damage I believe is out of balance. If there was a short cooldown between Vital spawns (that is reduced or lost based on her level until it reaches the current rate at around level 13) more inexperienced players could stand a chance against her in the laning phase and she wouldn't steam-role games so easily. Even experienced players lose the early game because Fiora gets three Vitals facing in her direction right after each other (dash -> attack -> dash, and Fiora won the lane), which isn't based on skill but simply luck and is much easier to access than other champions' true damage and sustain (e.g. OP's Irelia example; also Fiora has more safety than Irelia). Fiora mains would still perform wonderfully even with a cooldown. Her Vitals shouldn't define all of her kit, after all. She would still have her ult to get four at once, and the cooldown would be lost in the mid game.

Opportunistic1 votes

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Illâoi Evê Siôn1 votes

A lot of other champions also have true damage and are not broken. The ones who are most frequently considered broken are those who have easy access to true damage (e.g. Irelia, Vayne, Master Yi; the easiest access is via basic attacks). So if you limit that access on Fiora, you can cure her from being "broken".

SpookyNeedle1 votes

How would you propose to fix tank Fiora without removing her duelist ability to do the same damage to any enemy. She's a tank destroyer, she's made to kill them.

Opportunistic1 votes

Sure, let us say you are right for the moment. Tell me why the fuck tank fiora is stronger than normal fiora. Well? The true damage is what makes her broken. Like the only people who can safely fight her is ryze and malph, malph needs a gank just to kill her but, that is fair right? Ryze is horrible for top lane too. Any good jungler will gank him RIGHT when his passive drops. BOOM! no escape for ryze if his flash is down.. and what does fiora have? Flash > Dash > Attack > Dash > ult under your tower and kills you.....SOOO BALANCED

SpookyNeedle1 votes

She counters those that are ignorant of the matchup and vice versa, she'd be Ted cruz's favorite champion behind Vel'koz, because you need knowledge to win.

Addressing your first statement(s) She's made to do well in 1v1s, you don't say Ashe is OP if she out ranges Vayne. Even if she wins lane, she can't win the game by herself, the enemy team needs to learn not to engage her 1v1, if she's behind she will most likely need to hit all 4 ult vitals.

If you hug against a wall and the vital is against the wall, useful for her ult. It can't be hit.

Lots of abilities if used correctly can win a fight. Janna's ultimate, Kayle's ultimate, Yasuo's tornado, etc... Know the match up and don't be like many ignorant opponents and play into her strengths then complain about her being overpowered

Opportunistic1 votes

Make it so she isn't ever allowed to do more than one attack per second with an auto attack. That would be a great weakness to counter her true damage. Just accept it. I admit she does take a little skill to play right. As I have said I HAVE played her. She is a FREELO champ though whether you like it or not.

SpookyNeedle1 votes

Make her less noob friendly by making her AA resets harder to accomplish successfully, similar to Riven. But don't remove them, that'd kill her in higher level play.

Illâoi Evê Siôn1 votes

I have no problem with Fiora as Light Fighter, I just don't like her when she builds resistances and health. Riot's said they want to stat-bind champions and yet "Tank Fiora" is stronger than normal Fiora. They should bring the two down on one level.

As an aside, you main Fiora. Do you think Executioner's Calling should be essential against her? I mean on any physical champion. It's only 800 Gold and her early to mid game sustain is a big part of what makes her so infuriating.

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