[Champion] Fiora

On June 23 2012 14:02 Tooplark wrote:
Defensive runes/masteries, offensive items. Also, probably the champ who benefits the most from cleanse.

Don't buy Warmogs on Fiora (except maybe very situationally). She doesn't benefit a lot from health compared to others.
First, lifesteal is a great substitute for health on someone who does as much autoattack (and ult) damage as her. Consider that a vampiric scepter is 32/66/100 + .24*AD health back just from ult, worst case, plus some back for each auto you land, and it scales with more deeps.
Second, you like resists. In lane, your passive gives you lots of healing. Once you have lifesteal, you have lots of healing.

Don't go super glass cannon. Infinity Edge is pretty hard to fit in your build unless you are rollin in da brozouf. Wriggles or Hexdrinker should be your first buy, followed by BF Sword into Black Cleaver or Bloodthirster. Upgrade Hexdrinker, buy GA. You now have a solid core of resists and lots of DPS/1v1 potential, plus tons of free healing in fights. It's a very fine balance between being tanky enough to not die before reaching your target and doing enough deeps to dunk your target once you get there.

On July 08 2012 09:52 Vaporized wrote:

for jungle i go atk spd reds, armor yellow, mres blue, armpen quints. summoners get smite and exhaust (exhaust is crucial). start cloth 5 and open w. this setup is amazing at lvl 1. you get atk speed, +15 ad from w, cloth armor, and armor pen.

start wolves then blue (i ask for a leash every game no matter what jungler im playing, fiora is no different). i like the standard wraiths, wolves, red, wraiths, golems lvl 4 path. and oftentimes you will have pots left over at the end. skill order is w-e-w-q, then r-w-e-q. maxing e first is a huge mistake in the jungle.

for ganks i like to start at lvl 4 with red buff and boots. depending on the angle and how pushed your opponent is you can either lead off with a q to close the gap, or even better is running up on them and then using q to catch up when the enemy flashes. if you are smart about how you use your skills here you can easily get a kill. use w if they turn to attack you, an e-q-q combo with red + exhaust is often enough to let you auto a few times and get a kill. it also never gets old when someone kills themselves off a w proc.

at lvl 6 ganking becomes a lot more interesting. you can dive very effectively with your ult. use your e-q-q combo to hopefully get them down around 1/3 health and then ult and you will get the kill. one other thing ive found useful is if a big fight is going on bot lane and low health enemies are heading back to their tower you can run in and ult them (ask your lane to push minions if at all possible), and hopefully get a double kill.

i get the same items every game: cloth, boots, wriggles, hog, merc treads, black cleaver. the wriggles is the big one there. you want to finish madreds ASAP as it lets you clear absurdly fast. and as soon as you finish wriggles you can go straight to dragon and solo it (at lvl 7 is possible with 2-3 potions, lvl 8 you might need 1 potion, you will have lvl 2 e which helps a lot). once you get wriggles then fiora suddenly becomes the invade threat, you kill camps so fast.

the rest of the item build is situational. just get whatever you need. if you are getting blown up get frozen mallet, more sustain get bt, more damage get ie or pd. if i need resists i get randuins or force of nature.

also of note is fiora's split pushing ability. fiora kills towers comically fast. there was one game where the whole enemy team was pushing down bot. i pushed down their 2nd top tower and their 3rd tower + inhib, and my team was able to defend our inhib with the turrets help. that play basically won us the game. once i played that game i take advantage of this whenever possible. if a lane is losing then run in when the enemy goes back and kill the turret asap. this lets your laner roam, or at the least get out of a bad lane, and also gives you a lane to go farm guilt free when possible.

thats how i do it. she brings a lot of interesting things to the table, like amazing split pushing, absurd damage all game long, and early dragon control that imo balance out her lack of cc or tankiness. the sports analogy 'the best defense is a good offense' i think applies to fiora quite well. if the enemy is dead then you dont have to cc or tank anything.

edit: i forgot matchups. i only pick fiora if i know what their jungler is. shyv, mundo, udyr, trundle are all bad matchups. against those guys i like to pick one of the others (or skarner) so at least i can keep up. any other jungler i found fiora does fine. even shyv is actually doable, you can kill her at low lvls, but it can be obnoxious. mundo i either ban if im first pick and want to play fiora, or i just pick shyv myself if the other guy picks mundo. ive never actually jungled fiora against mundo but i just dont see it working out for fiora at all. fiora's first clear is not the fastest or the slowest, you can hit 4 at 3:50-4:00, and from then on you just wreck the jungle so fast, including possibly the fastest buff golem kill times of any champ once you get madreds/wriggles.

one last point: in champ select or in a premade team get either top or support to pick a good tank like malph, ali, or leona. if there is one thing fiora does not do it is tank.