Secretly, Fiora rework is a huge nerf...

Before you bestow your downvotes upon me, please hear me out. I don't (At least i dont think) i mean it literally when i say her rework is a nerf, but let me explain myself.

Format: Old ability: Description New ability: Description -> Why it's a nerf.

Passive Old ability: Fiora heals (X Amount) overtime each time she auto attacks stacking up to 4 times on champions. This passive can proc on Minions, Jungle monsters, etc. New ability: Fiora finds vital areas in an enemy CHAMPION. attacking this vital area will deal % hp true damage, heal a little and grant some movement speed. -> On paper, this sounds like a huuuge buff. However, the fact that this ability does not work on jungle monsters does not only kill jungle fiora, but also forces Fiora to be solely a top laner (Quite the diversity huh). Especially after gangplanks rework forced HIM top lane too...

Q Old ability: Fiora lunges at a target, after her first lunge, she can lunge once more at no mana cost. New ability: Fiora lunges at a target direction, and will hit any nearby enemies and apply on hit effects. -> Ok Fioras new Q might be a step up from her old one, but her chasing potential goes down ever so slightly due to not being able to lunge a minion then lunge your target. Also, Though this depends on the on hit effects you have avaliable, the old Q has a greater Damage as a whole if you land both Lunges, especially if you include the cooldowns.

W Old ability: Passively fiora gains quite impact full attack damage as she levels this ability, capping at 35. When activated, fiora will negate the next basic attack and parry some damage back at the attacker. New ability: Fiora enters a defensive stance (Rooting her) and if she is hit with any type of damage at all, she will shoot a skillshot type of counter attack. If the ability was hard crowd control, the counter attack with stun instead. ONLY WORKS ON CHAMPIONS!! -> another ability that looks like a buff on paper. The fact that fiora is rooted when parrying and the fact that the parry becomes a skillshot, just removes a lot of dueling power from fiora. Lets not forget the 35 attack damage that is just completely removed...on top of this, the parry only works on champions, it should definitely work on large jungle monsters...

E Old ability: fiora gains a burst of speed, gaining attack speed, on top of this, any lunge or auto attack will grant fiora movement speed. This ability RESETS upon killing a champion .. New ability: Fiora gains attack speed for 2 hits ._. the first hit can NOT crit (Wow) but slows the target. The second hit will definitely crit. -> This is quite obviously a huge nerf. Honestly, you can literally get frozen mallet on the old fiora and get tons more use from the ability. I like how the second attack is guranteed to crit but... you're bound to crit at least once with the old e (So long as you have some crit chance, which you should) and you get way more out of it. Let's not forget you get a RESET every kill....

R Do i even need to? Went from a badass damage all over the place ult, (Though it was click to win) To.. click an enemy champion, spin around the champion untill you can hit all 4 of the vital spots, and then get an aoe heal.. if you don't die before then that is...

To Conclude Riot did state that they will be trading the dueling aspect of fiora for more utility. I find this totally OK. However, riot did NOT state that they will be trading this rework for every bit of jungle strength fiora had... Think about this, LITERALLY ALL FIORA HAS in the jungle, is her E... and her Q.... That's a huge step down from having All abilities at her disposal. I'm not sure if riot is trying to force all champions into a single lane but i an definitely against that notion....

Honestly, pure damage wise fiora got kinda nerfed. However i can see players chaining abilities to turn her into a great beast. It is unfortunate though.. that she will be a great beast only top lane. Come to think of it.. with the aoe and counter attack, she's probably gonna be used as a support quite often....

Welp those are my thoughts on the new fiora.. What are yours? Thanks for viewing this post, i greatly appreciate it. If you couldn't read it all i don't blame ya, but please don't base your replies to this thread solely on the title... Have a great day/night/noon/whatever.