Talk:Fiora/@comment-176.227.154.70-20120719192650/@comment-4834593-20120720141348

As someone who has decent experience as Fiora (even my only penta :) ), I'd say that there are two things that allow her to be able to deal the highest damage of all champions in the game (together with Yi, for who apply the same things). First, she is melee, which means that, if you actually want to deal that damage, one short stun will kill you, because your health is around equal to a carry's DPS. Aka you die in one second to a carry. Of course you can build tanky, I don't know how well it works, but your damage won't be nearly as high. And that's the part I like about Fiora. She is also ridiculously hard to play, because of this melee state. When should you initiate, when should you wait, etc. If you initiate too early, you're dead in a second, if you initiate too late, your allies are already dead. I have found the best moment to initiate normally be when someone is getting low on health and EQQ kill this enemy very fast (first Q to close the gap). After this, two to three seconds at most you attack someone else, then ult the closest enemy. After your ult is over, there will normally be at least 2, most likely 3 or 4 enemies dead, after which the speed bonus from E (which you can reactivate because you'll have made a kill or two assists) will be enough to catch that last one, mostly because it's about the cooldown Lunge has on higher levels.

For items, I must say I never go the "normal" carry build. Instead, I start Wriggles Lantern (I'm normally top lane, so it's very useful, even if only because of the ward). I then, together with the W I max first, enough damage to do something you'd not expect without a fall-off in damage: I buy 3, or even 4, Vampiric Scepters. After this, I one my one turn them into Bloodthirsters and eventually a Zeke's Herald. For boots, I normally take Berserkers Greaves, but sometimes it can be better to take Mercury Threads or maybe Ninja Tabi if you lane against someone like Riven or Renekton. Ninja Tabi + Wriggles Lantern normally gives enough armor to counter them (or you just play Malphite and buy Glacial Shroud/Sunfire Cape after your Ninja Tabi...).