Thoughts on Fiora
Girls at Arms!
Hey there, brave summoners!
Here I am again talking about a new Champion joining the mighty Fields of Justice: Fiora, The Grand Duelist!
It’s really nice to see Riot investing on non-mage female champions, right? They are so cool! Starting with Vayne, then we had Leona, Riven and Shyvana. They are all great heroes, let’s hope for the same with Fiora!
Talking about her mechanisms now, what first caught my attention was her passive. With the recent nerfs on pots, lifesteal and spellvamp itens, and supporters like Sona and Soraka (as mentioned by WatchMeSC on his awesome Quintessence Choice guide) sustain is becoming a really rare resource, and Fiora’s duelist has the potential to give her crazy lane sustain. On a solo lane against another melee champ, it’ll be really hard to harass this lady because of her stack gain.
I don’t have much to say about her 3 skills. Her Q is pretty much Renekton’s Slice and Dice; Ripost seems very nice, but I don’t think it will send an AP skill back to it’s caster, the “reflects magic damage” probably refers to magic damage added on auto-attacks, like Wit’s End. Her E gives Fiora great mobility, aside from Attack Speed, and combined with the passive AD gain from her W, this skill makes this duelist a really strong hero!
Finally, her Ultimate was another thing that made me pay attention to this chick. The ability to hit all opponents on the screen without been able to be targeted? TELL ME ABOUT NIGHTMARE! This single skill has the potential to turn the tides on a team fight!
What about you, summoner? What are your toughts on Fiora? I’d love to hear your opinions, feel free to comment below!
8 Responses to “Thoughts on Fiora”
PkPhoenix replied on Feb 25th, 2012 at 3:47 pm
I think the way her reflect works (based on the description) is that she does not need to be attacked by a magic damage AA. In all honesty there aren’t a ton of those anyway. It sounds like regardless of who AA’s her, whether its ranged or melee, if she hits this ability, part of the damage (im assuming crits too?) will be reflected back to the auto-attacker as magic damage. Now I’m not sure if that means that damage will not go against Fiora in its reflection or not. Anyway, that’s my take on it.
Penguasaurus replied on Feb 25th, 2012 at 5:03 pm
I think her ultimate is very similar to Juggarnaut’s ultimate or Yi’s Alpha Strike. I’m interested in seeing how it works in team fights with the current team comp meta
Insomnium replied on Feb 25th, 2012 at 5:13 pm
Or the monk from Diablo 3
Aqualisk replied on Feb 25th, 2012 at 6:18 pm
I think Fiora will be a difficult target to focus. In a team fight a Fiora can save her ultimate for when the enemy team decides to kill her and effectively zhonya’s while simultaneously dealing damage to the enemy team.
ViniMS replied on Feb 25th, 2012 at 7:31 pm
Yeah, I think she will be really hard to be targeted. Her E gives her extra mobility, and the ultimate helps a lot too. And for her W, I’m really curious to see how this reflect thing will work.
WatchMeSC replied on Feb 26th, 2012 at 12:25 am
You mentioned my guide! <3 I think he passive looks quite good as well.
ViniMS replied on Feb 26th, 2012 at 12:28 am
Of course! I found your guide VERY useful, thanks for it! Sorry I didn’t put a link to it, I was having some troubles with the text editor.
WatchMeSC replied on Feb 26th, 2012 at 11:42 am
I’m happy you found it useful, no link is necessary :D.