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Here's a theory on why Fiora's bangs/blocked eye is important.

ModCaptainMårvelous··39 votes·3,628 views
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#Please keep in mind that this is basically head canon and merely theory.

So one of the things that happened with the Fiora VU is people were upset with her hairstyle change. Her hair was iconic, her bangs were key, the one hidden eye was core to her character. I found that odd, as I kept seeing people say that a blocked eye for a fencer is a death sentence and poorly planned. That you need both eyes to effectively fence. Why did people respond so strongly to it?

It hit me then: Fiora has her bangs like that as a handicap to you.

Fiora, as a character, is both powerful and arrogant. She relishes facing a worthy opponent and is more than happy to demonstrate how she is the grand duelist. In much a way that a martial artist would tie one hand behind his back or only fight with his legs to make it a fair fight for a weaker opponent, Fiora does the same thing. Except in fencing, she's generally using one hand now that her parrying dagger is gone. So how does Fiora handicap herself in a way that makes sense?

Simple. She reduces her field of vision and fights you with what is essentially one eye closed. THAT is why her bangs are important. She's not afraid to face you with her vision obscured, she's not scared of having her hair blocking her eyesight. She's going to fight you with an impractical hairstyle because she can STILL kick your ass and look damn fine doing it.

35 Comments

ItsGflow10 votes

Or it's because it's sexy af I mean idk ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Rinky Dinky6 votes

I thought that was pretty obvious.

Glad you realized tho

ModCaptainMårvelous14 votes

I am not a smart man.

IcyPepper4 votes

I think you are.

Being smart isn't just knowing things, it's coming up with ideas and theories on your own grounds and supporting it rationally. It's not just the knowledge, but the learning that is key.

ModCaptainMårvelous2 votes

NOBODY LIKES A SUCK UP BILLY.

Squidsmastah1 votes

BUT DADDY I JUST WANTED THE COOKIES!

RottedApples1 votes

Intelligence is knowing a tomato is a fruit

The Anagram King4 votes

I have long hair. It often covers both my eyes. You don't lose vision. :P

Certainly not to the point that it would impact your ability to stab things at close range. You'd have to be pretty determined to completely blind yourself in one eye just using hair strands. You'd need glue or something.

Rinky Dinky3 votes

It very would could make predicting an attack, or reacting a bit harder/more sluggish

The Anagram King6 votes

Let me put it this way:

If a duelist with a fringe were to try to handicap themselves by pulling said fringe over one eye, I would laugh.

At a distance, your second eye's attempts to overcompensate could throw off your depth perception. But if you have any hair at all, throw it over one eye and close the other. Go ahead. Cover as much of it as you can. You can still read, you can still see. Your eye tries to find the gaps between strands and can see through anything that isn't a clump of hair.

I like Fiora's bang - but handicapping yourself with a long fringe? Puh-lease. ;p

ElJanitorFrank4 votes

It's still a handicap, but not a big one. And to be fair, she isn't just some lady that tossed her hair in front of her face, her hair looks pretty damn thick and static there, probably kept clumped together using hair products. It might as well be an eyepatch.

Audiomancy1 votes

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Let me put it this way:

If a duelist with a fringe were to try to handicap themselves by pulling said fringe over one eye, I would laugh.

At a distance, your second eye's attempts to overcompensate could throw off your depth perception. But if you have any hair at all, throw it over one eye and close the other. Go ahead. Cover as much of it as you can. You can still read, you can still see. Your eye tries to find the gaps between strands and can see through anything that isn't a clump of hair.

I like Fiora's bang - but handicapping yourself with a long fringe? Puh-lease. ;p

There's always the chance you could stab yourself in the eyeball with a stray strand of hair.

...god I'm glad I got a haircut.

PeachsProperty3 votes

so..basically doing a Jax self imposed handicap?

it may seem blocked, but hair is not a solid object, when moving im sure the hair is able to be seen through enough to know where to attack or dodge/parry.

ModCaptainMårvelous3 votes

Sorta kinda.

Although the difference is that Jax takes it to the extreme of having a vastly impractical weapon versus Fiora just kinda blocking her eye with some hair.

And while that's true, I'm mostly talking about generality. Even in motion, the shape of her haircut means that her hair will be in her eye/in her face for most of the fight. It's not a drastic handicap but at the level Fiora is dueling at, every miniscule advantage/disadvantage can mean death for you or your foe.

EDIT: Keep in mind, total fan canon and I'm probably bullshitting about the importance of it. Still, I prefer the idea of it being a handicap from arrogance than just a simple "UH I LUUK ZU PRETTEH VITH MY HAIR LIKE ZHIZ!"

TheFirstGokun4 votes

Except Jax's handicap was imposed by the Institute of War... oh wait...

Archeanthus3 votes

I like dis. Also having her hair covered wouldn't just reduce her field of vision, but losing an eye essentially removes your ability to see in 3D, so you have no depth perception. VERY important for a duelist, one who lunges for the heart with her long slender blade! Makes that a little tiny bit more difficult.

Wathehellsupdog3 votes

Or, it's because she has a... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... SHARINGAN!

(hmm... now that I think about it, some people might not even know what I'm talking about) T-T

RottedApples1 votes

i just used rock lee as an example of handicapping yourself then i scroll down. god dammit guy.

GreenLore2 votes

Though there isn't much point in such a handicap if you can't brag about it(saying "ha i beat you even though my hair is in my face" is a bit weird) Of course there is the possibility that Fiora has it to make the fight more challenging for herself,but I doubt that she would risk loosing for something like that,not when the honor of her house is on the line and that would actually imply that she'd make sure her hair isn't in her face,when she fights someone who is on her level(and I doubt this'll be the case)

I'd say it is simply an acceptable break from reality,I mean many champs have unrealistic armor,weapons,clothes,etc.so why would an unrealistic haircut be a problem?

TheFameAnimal2 votes

To me, (apart from being sexy as fuck) her bangs over her eye sort of highlights her cockiness. Her lore implies that she is an exceedingly cocky person, because she knows that she is a great duelist in Demacia, if not all of Valoran. Her bangs over her eye highlight that she is making it harder for herself to win (due to the prohibited vision) and that she is being very cocky towoards her opponents because she knows she can win, even with debillitated vision.

gaby1best1 votes
  • a pretty face.
Zeal Seeker1 votes

I guess in a way that make sense.

Beerstein1 votes

The reason she needed her hair put back is that she doesn't want to speak to the manager.

50000000000000001 votes

What if she actually is blind? The lore says she challenged her father who was dueling dishonorably, so maybe she was blinded in one eye before she dueled him.

BlkStar1001 votes

Agreed , also going to state her skills are now of a Duelist , rather that of an Assasin . You will actually have a chance to win in a 1 v 1 . You can also consider that a handicap .

gubigubi1 votes

That's also why her slight grin was awesome on the old splash art as well. She is better than you, and she knows it.

Loken Stoneheart1 votes

This is better than the "theory" Riot agreed with on the fly to justify giving her a random as all heck heal on her ult.

Balgoth1 votes

People were mad because the feminists have been crying that women in LoL are too sexy and unrealistic, so Riot has stopped making pretty characters. The new Fiora model is just ugly. People didn't pay money for ugly skins so they are outraged.

Annapii2 votes

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People were mad because the feminists have been crying that women in LoL are too sexy and unrealistic, so Riot has stopped making pretty characters. The new Fiora model is just ugly. People didn't pay money for ugly skins so they are outraged.

Fiora was unattractive because Riot made poor aesthetic choices for her hair and face, not because Riot was purposefully trying to "ugly" her down to be politically correct. You don't try to make a less attractive character, then give her a skin-tight tunic. You donut.

This has nothing to do with feminism. You can't blame everything you don't like on the Jews, the blacks, the gays, or the feminists.

Annapii1 votes

The bangs are important because they flatter her angular face, rather than framing it and making her look like she has a triangle for a head. If they had just rounded her chin and kept the bangs off, I would have considered that an acceptable solution too.

RottedApples1 votes

example:

http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/12/123441/2973299-rl8.jpg

gaara fight

FoxyKitten1 votes

They keep telling you guys that they have different teams for different features. Champ conception/design team, client team, game modes team, event team, skin team, rework team, splash art team, gameplay team, HUD/visuals team (font changes, new Health Bars, wthatever) etc etc and you people still keep thinking that they're prioritizing the wrong stuff.

They're working on everything simultaneously. Conception and design isn't exactly an easy process. Once you finally come up with the design (champ model and gameplay for example), then you have to make sure it makes sense as a whole and with the rest of the game and finalize it. Once it's finalized, then you have to actually develop it and make sure it doesn't break the game or is so out of balance it's not fun to interact with. Repeat if it's a worst case scenario.

Just because the skin team comes up with their ideas faster than the client team can code the new client (assuming they've already designed it), doesn't mean they're not prioritizing the client. Bigger projects obviously take more time.

And it's not the first time they explain this, but people think that you just think of an idea overnight, you code it and it's done as if it's one line of code: Gangplank.updateModelAndGameplay() or LeagueOfLegends.createNewSkin().publishToLiveBuild = yes please. You have any ideas how long it takes to come up with the perfect idea and code it bug-free? There's a lot of architecture that goes into this stuff and trial and error (unfortunately).

ModCaptainMårvelous1 votes

What do this have to do with anything.

Shénzhì1 votes

Nope. Only goes to trying to justify a hasty decision from Riot Games in giving her that 'emo' fringe. I wish they didn't. The community is not always right.

Fiora VU1 and VU2 will always be better.

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