User blog comment:Willbachbakal/(Champion Rework) Fiora, the Grand Duelist/@comment-6061249-20131031211308/@comment-6061249-20131101221452

Althrough i get some points, there are still things i can't understand or simply wrong.

Riposte actually affects late game. It's one crit less from enemy carry. And while we talk about crits, it's even up to 25% of your max health if carry has enough damage.

Really? 1% of max health? Pays off late game downsides? It won't ever pay for those changes. Absolutely no match.

Right, Olaf has some massively reduced cooldown on Reckless Swing, but -

-It's not a gapcloser

-It returns damage to himself (as health cost, which will break through defenses)

-Still does not makes Olaf bursting faster than Fiora

And, even if we pass all the things i have mentioned, it's still nonsense, due to one point that is just unpassable.

If a champion is easy to counter, any moment of his weakness can be multiplied by countering. Current Fiora's early game is quite good, but not overwhelming. Simply, weakening her early game opens the gate for countering, which is already plain easy (armor + exhaust = almost impossible to lose against her). How do you imagine nerfing something that is already borderline unviable? Getting fed with something that can't even lane properly?