Template:Champion info This is a tentative rework for Fiora, the Grand Duelist. As a melee light fighter, Fiora has all the tools she needs to function like a melee carry: she has mobility, situational defenses and really good scalings. However, her playstyle doesn't really correspond to her theme: despite being the Grand Duelist, her main contribution to fights amounts to building and ulting the enemy team for massive AoE damage. She emphasizes precision and grace, but mainly works by rushing her target and spamming all of her abilities at once in an attempt to bully out a winning trade, or even snowball into a kill. She has tons of ways to enter a fight, but has a lot of trouble leaving them, and consequently tends to be fairly binary: if she gets ahead, she can singlehandedly kill multiple members of the enemy team without them being able to touch her, but if she gets behind, she dies after only providing mediocre damage.
The main goal of these changes is to make Fiora more focused on moment-to-moment reaction: she still uses autoattacks, but also relies heavily on spells to provide windows of defense or mobility for the right situation. Some of the abilities in her current kit have a pretty solid foundation (her Q is decent, parrying attacks is a cool mechanic), and some are just not good (her passive has nothing to do with her playstyle and is just there to give her top lane-grade sustain, and her ultimate deals a ton of damage with little counterplay involved), and I want the end result to be a Fiora who genuinely functions like a fencer, diving in, defending herself, and pressing her advantage to duel her opponents one at a time.
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Originally, I had another rework which basically consisted of giving Fiora more free utility at the cost of less damage, without altering her core kit (bleh), which is what most of the comments are addressing, but I replaced it with the rework you see here. What do you think of these changes? Would this benefit Fiora? Would it make fighting her more enjoyable? Is the playstyle encouraged by these changes the one you'd like to see on Fiora? Does it fit her theme? Comments and criticism are greatly appreciated. :)
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