Fiora's R needs a good looking into

Mister Struggle·11/30/2013, 8:09:28 PM·3 votes·876 views

Fiora is a champion specialized for 1v1 encounters, as well as having a decent amount of damage in teamfights. Now, there is one problem with her teamfight that gives her a HUGE advantage. Now, if this is intended or not, I see it as an issue.

If Fiora builds lifesteal, which most do, through items such as

or , her teamfight experiences a huge power spike. Her ultimate, Blade Waltz, as we all know, makes her untargetable for the duration, benefits off of lifesteal.

The reason I see this as a problem, is the fact that if throughout a teamfight she has taken heavy damage, and puts on her ultimate, she can heal back to full health and be invincible to damage in the process. I think this should be changed as it is a huge advantage. It would be like if Lissandra could spellvamp the ENTIRE time she was invulnerable, not just upon activation of her ultimate. Interested in your feedback! Thanks.

14 Comments

TaintedTaint11/30/2013, 9:34:28 PM2 votes

Fiora is by far not viewed as an OP champion. Her entire kit lacks impressive play, so her only saving grace is a strong ult. I say leave her be.

SonicÐeHedgedawg11/30/2013, 9:23:36 PM1 votes

Umm.... that's the whole point of Fiora's ultimate. It's a huge gamble. Use it early to burst a carry? Use it late to heal up? Wait until the last moment to use it and maybe die before you can, or waste it before you take too much damage.

NeekoTrap12/1/2013, 12:39:01 AM1 votes

No. Building Lifesteal on Fiora is sub-optimal. If it were optimal play then it would be overpowered, but there's plenty of counter-play, like, walking under turret range or moving away from your team as the targeted entity.

It's niche and a niche Fiora fits well. However, it is still sub-optimal, and she'd already have to have been fed in order to do well with lifesteal.

Rhyto12/2/2013, 6:25:20 PM1 votes

League of Legends isn't suppose to be easy; why keep making this game even easier for players?

JackAqua12/1/2013, 2:15:25 PM1 votes

This is sad.

I Main Swain12/1/2013, 10:00:08 PM1 votes

shes easily dealt with unless shes far along in her build and you don't have much tank. also, fiora is an insanely squishy top laner, and all you have to do to deal with one (in the event they get fed) is cc her butt off. if your team doesn't have any cc, then you just need to get a new team comp.

raveyard11/30/2013, 9:01:21 PM

Hm, you bring up an interesting point there. But I have to disagree. Fiora as a champion is a glass cannon similar to MasterYi in her damage and lifesteal potential. If we were to nerf her ultimate so that she was still targetable during her ultimate it would give her absolutely no means of escaping from a fight. As it is she is still very susceptible to cc and kiting as she has no built in slowing mechanism. I feel that if we were to remove that portion of her ult her whole entire kit would need reevaluation. But who knows maybe if we saw it live it would turn out to be a good thing.