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Riot Fiora is broken.

The Mechromaner··5 votes·1,904 views

Okay Riot i really think you overloaded Fiora with her new kit. Here are my reasons.

  1. Firstly her Q and E. A gap closer that can refresh itself rather quickly, in about 3-5 sec depending on rank. And her E is a super slow. Considering both are on low cool downs she can spam them at any time in the game and you cannot get away from her unless you have a long root or a huge blink. Meaning she is constantly hitting your vital points, doing tons of free damage, and you cannot fight back at all. Plus with the combined range of the dash itself and the aoe targeting, is a bit more than a short dash it should be.

  2. Her W blocks everything. Yes it may be a small time frame, 0.75 sec. But about a second is large enough time to enable almost anyone to time it perfectly to block anything. And yes somethings like Ekko's w can be a bit tricky to time right but most other spells are predictable in witch you should activate her W.

  3. Her Passive seems rather unfair. First it always seems to go on the side most convenient for the Fiora. I hardly ever see it be on the side that hardest for her to hit, right + top side if im on the red side of the map and vice-versa. Plus the thing has no cool down, 0.5 so pretty much instantly. And it lasts for 15 seconds, so she always has huge pressure on your. Another thing is that its hard to kite against. To avoid her from hitting them you have to kind of go in something of a zigzag/ circle pattern, almost always moving away from a "safe zone". Plus the thing does true damage based off of her ad and the target's maximum hp, super tank killer right there.

  4. Her all in. To top it all off she has one of the best all in potential, if not the best, on a champion. With her low cool downs and low mana costs she can spam her Q and E all day. Her W will block your, probably your only, cc to try to counter her and turn the tide, then it will stun you. And then her ult, 4 vital spots appear on you if when she hits them all your screwed with that huge aoe heal that makes her un-killable. And if you somehow survive all that and manage a flash or some other blink her E and Q will make that pointless. Any hard cc wont work on her with her W, plus if she block ults your one form of turning that fight around, and any slows wont do a damn thing once again with the Q and E. Not even Nasus W, probably one of the most annoying slows in the game, cant do kriffing thing.

The main problem is that her kit allows her to always hit your vital spot, you cant get away and you cant fight back because your most likely way behind from all the harras and easy to pull off all-ins she is able to do so your stuck between a boulder and an even bigger boulder. Changing the way her passive does damage would eliminate a lot of the frustration. The true damage is too much when it can be constantly achieved and changing her cool downs for her Q, E, and passive would fix my main problems with her. As for her ult just lower the healing a little.

Now then your probably thinking i had one rather bad game were i got my ass handed to me, and your right about the second part because of what i said stated. But I've played against, seen, and played her quite a few times. And every time whoever was playing Fiora won the closest I've gotten to beating her was with Malphite. But once she got her ult i immediately lost. Its really not fun having to face a Fiora, she is way too overwhelming and it feels there is no counter play. I dont think a champion is broken when their stats and ability's are completely whack, that's just bad balance, i think a champion is broken when they're not fun to play against, it defeats the purpose of playing a game.

I think her new kit fits her perfectly as a duelist/fencer type champion. She is just too much to handle in her current state with her passive dealing true damage too often and her kit having her do just that. I hope you guys at riot read this and possibly consider changing the passive damage to something else, at least removing the true damage, and I hope not to get flamed in the comments. And to answer your question no im not taking the time to write this just to complain, if I was I'd be asking riot to nerf or change everything about her. Her problem comes from her passive true damage and her being able to achieve that damage constantly. Im taking the time to write this because Fiora is an un-fun part of league right now and with the upcoming project skins, witch i will buy it all cause Project skin line is my favorite, a lot more people will be playing her and i dont think i will be able to enjoy the other new skins or league because i will most likely have to face a Fiora in every one of my matches.

11 Comments

67chrome2 votes

The main problem is that her kit allows her to always hit your vital spot

Not if her target stands next to a wall.

Peel Your ADC1 votes

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Not if her target stands next to a wall.

Or go into the fog of war and reset it to a side that benefits you.

Caytheles2 votes

The only people who are downvoting you are the shitheads that play fiora to get out of Elo hell.

what would they do without their freelo champs? they would be in bronze.

Fadedpf1 votes

item 3078 item 3071 item 3075 item 3065 item 3158 + what ever last item you want = cancer build >.> Her Passive and E are so flawed and stupid and if she manages to Kill or get her Ult procs off the AoE heal is better than a Janna ult....

pPbwi30RyP1 votes

item 3074 item 3078 item 3072 item 3071 item 3026 item 3009 with red enchantment to get ulti vitals off btw, janna ult all u have to do is literally press r. it also knocks back everyone. fiora ult is kinda alot more than that.

Weiner the Pooh1 votes

It's funny, people complain her kit was too binary and unfair with no counterplay, riot gives her a unique kit with lots of counterplay and has tons of potential, and people complain

Bhagswag1 votes

Nope.

pPbwi30RyP1 votes

her q cd is not 3 seconds lol. its 18 seconds believe it or not. its cd gets reduced if u hit someone with it

Peel Your ADC

If you struggle to deal with Fiora top lane, play even bigger cancer in top so that she wants to kill herself.

Like Heimer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIKlaq2wBqA

Legit, she can't go in without losing a crapton of health, can't waveclear, can't follow up on a gank for poop and then gets melted even harder once he hits six.

GG Noob Team1 votes

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If you struggle to deal with Fiora top lane, play even bigger cancer in top so that she wants to kill herself.

Like Heimer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIKlaq2wBqA

Legit, she can't go in without losing a crapton of health, can't waveclear, can't follow up on a gank for poop and then gets melted even harder once he hits six.

The get rekt in few hits by fiora mid-late game on a heimer.

I never seen somebody proposing to go heimer to counter irelia or riven, thats how fiora is mega broken, when people only chance to fight back is to take a champion that counters most of the melees in the game only.

It's funny, people complain her kit was too binary and unfair with no counterplay, riot gives her a unique kit with lots of counterplay and has tons of potential, and people complain

Ehe? What counterplay you say? She counters entire game with 1 spell and another game with hers passive. There is no counter play to her at all unless she is incredibly bad.

Peel Your ADC1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Unranked Lady,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=h9W5J0eg,comment-id=00020000,timestamp=2015-08-28T13:33:40.765+0000)

The get rekt in few hits by fiora mid-late game on a heimer.

I never seen somebody proposing to go heimer to counter irelia or riven, thats how fiora is mega broken, when people only chance to fight back is to take a champion that counters most of the melees in the game only.

Ehe? What counterplay you say? She counters entire game with 1 spell and another game with hers passive. There is no counter play to her at all unless she is incredibly bad.

You won't have a mid-late game if you're against heimer as a melee champ. He heavily retards the power curve to the point where you'll be level 9 with one item while he can kite you and your jungler into his illuminati zone of death and spam /j or /l.

Know why Irelia hates heimer? Turrets. Why? Because she has to clear them 1 by one while the other two wail on her. Except she has a tiny bit of sustain.

Fiora doesn't.

Counterpick approved.

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