Let's have a word about fiora's rework (I promise this is not a QQ thread, PROMISE).
DISCLAIMER: This thread is just an idea, a concept, a proposal and nothing more (or less). My objective is not deeming riot's newest update (patch 5.14, july 22) bad or uncreative or any other similar adjective. i actually quite like it myself, this thread is just an idea of mine intended to be seen by riot and the rest of the league of legends community.
About fiora's rework, i honestly am kind of surprised people actually complain about this rework, i mean sure the splash art is ugly as crap, but people have also being typing stuff like ''omfg report rito this champ has been destroyed tear of the goddess'' it almost seems as if people want fiora to remain this mechanically unchallenging mess of a champion with no actual room for rewarding plays to ever be executed (due to the champion's lack of actual mechanics to begin with), in all honestly that champion is boring to face and play, it is a champion with no defining features apart from her ultimate, high risk (against popular lane bullies), low reward in exchange and a crapton of counterplay against fiora without any way for her to succesfully deal with it (or at least mitigate it). To be frank i am quite satisfied with riot, seeing as they finally consume SOME effort to actually give their champions interesting kits and room for impressive plays, as seen by other updates and newer releases (plays ready to be seen on twitch.tv riot SURE knows how to advertize herself through the competitive scene tho). As i was reading through fiora's update, excited and stuff, i got to her ultimate:
R: Grand Challenge
Fiora targets an enemy champion, gaining speed and full knowledge of their vitals. Each time she destroys a weak spot, she deals percent max health true damage. If she’s able to destroy all four weak spots, or if she destroys at least one before her target dies, Fiora creates a large and long-lasting zone under her enemy that heals Fiora and her allied champions.
That sure is an interesting ability, said i to myself while stroking my chin. I certainly can see what riot did there, i mean fiora, being the grand duelist that she is, was initially supposed to be this kind of champion that relies on their fancy plays and rapid movements to dominate the opposition, which is great and all, well having that much in my mind i expected her ultimate to be some sort of ultimate flashy ability, i mean that is what the grand duelist is supposed to do, being flashy and fabulous. The rapid movements that fiora needs to pull off while her ultimate is active to get all 4 weak spots sure is challenging and that is why executing such a flashy play would be followed by an equally impressive reward that makes you think ''totally worth breaking my mouse''. With that in mind what is this AOE heal doing in here, you might ask, well i get that the reward for pulling off such a fabulous move should be equally fabulous and of great impact to the game and i agree an AOE janna-like heal is pretty neat but then, said i to myself, ''this heal is SO out of place, i mean fiora is a duelist, right? this reward does not match fiora's fabulous, flashy and duel-y persona'' and many people seem to agree with me here, i mea
So i decided, being a dedicated member of our fair community, i ought to consume effort of my own to actually help my dear riot-ers finding some sort of a better reward for pulling off such a great stunt of an ultimate fiora's ultimate is (initially i thought that, perhaps i should just suggest another ult but then i realised that fiora's new ultimate fits new flashy and fabulous fiora perfectly) so, i dug THIS up:
http://www.newsoflegends.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/FioraUltSample-1.jpg
The image above was shown to us by riot when a fiora rework first started floating around and frankly that was a concept i liked quite a lot (and sure did riot, no?) so WHAT IF we could COMBINE those two ults that were made up to give fiora a new identity, because a year might have gone by, however riot's idea of what fiora should ultimately be never has actually changed, so what if her ultimate was something like this:
R: Grand Challenge
Fiora targets an enemy champion, gaining speed and full knowledge of their vitals. Each time she destroys a weak spot, she deals percent max health true damage. If she’s able to destroy all four weak spots, or if she destroys at least one before her target dies, Fiora's basic spells are free to cast at a 0.5 seconds cooldown (maximun 16 casts). During this time fiora gains 50% (or more) bonus armor penetration and minor upgrades to her spells as follows:
Lunge: Cast range increased by 100/200/300 units.
Riposte: Can be casted while moving.
Bladework: Slow's potency inreased by 10%/20%/30% and it's duration by 2/3/4 seconds. Second attack's crit will deal 250% of fiora's attack damage instead of the usual 200%.
All in all, i am not claiming that fiora's new ultimate or, more precisely, fiora's AOE heal that activates after pulling her ultimate off successfully, makes no sense GAMEPLAY wise, because in fact it does, it is an effect that can really change a teamfight (and by extension a game) and is a reward worthy of a hard ability to execute. All i am trying to say is that it does not fit fiora's DESIGN, hence why i tried comming up with something equally rewardingbut more fitting of a duelist because, let's be real, duelists are not really supposed to heal all that much.
P.S -> Change whatever you'd like with this should you decide to put my idea down to paper riot, this is your game.
