Fiora/Strategy

Skill usage

 * regeneration effect stacks up against champions, so don't be afraid to engage in small skirmishes.
 * not only deals damage, but also prevents targeting from enemy abilities.
 * makes you untargetable for the duration of the ability and also removes turret aggro from, so it can be used to finish off low health enemies hiding under their turret.
 * basically counts as 5 separate basic attacks. Hence, it will proc all on-hit effects and be affected by any other autoattack modifiers (except for attack speed buffs/debuffs and crits), including the summoner spell . However, all proc on-hit effects will stack after the first attack, granting only 4 procs (the first hit starts at 0, the second at 1, and so on, etc.)
 * If you're chasing an enemy champion that's too far use on a enemy minion and use its second dash to catch up.
 * gives a huge attack speed boost so it can be used to effectively push turrets.
 * Try to use when the enemy is already in half-swing or when their ranged basic attack is in mid flight. Riposte can be used to counter a variety of on-hit effects, such as, , and.
 * is often underestimated for its damage, especially at early levels of the game. A quick double click on the same champion works as a decent nuke.
 * Remember that, while most of Fiora's damage comes from standard attacks or modified standard attacks, is an ability, so it can pierce through statuses like blind and  to deal damage.

Build usage

 * works well with her kit, because it gives her enough attack speed to almost hit the 2.5 cap while is going, while also procing with - against a single opponent it will proc 5 times, doing 20% of the targets max health, plus the flat 320/672/1000 damage from.
 * However, is very costly and somewhat situational (against high HP targets).
 * , similarly, will increase her attack speed and will proc at least once during, which, against four enemy champions, will increase the damage dealt to each by 110.
 * is also useful as it will proc on all hits of her ultimate . Along with the magic resistance and AS that it provides, the item is very useful on Fiora, especially if the opponent team is AP heavy or if an AP heavy champ constantly focuses you.
 * Furthermore, will reduce armor on every hit of her ultimate  and therefore increasing the damage dealt. In teamfights where your  can hit multiple targets, the armor reduction will be very helpful. In a 1v1 case, the armor reduction will greatly increase your already impressive damage from.
 * Building lifesteal is very important for Fiora as it allows her to regenerate large quantities of health while she is untargettable during.
 * Unlike many other attack damage carries, can be built but isn't necessary on Fiora because she already gets a huge attack speed boost and a movement speed boost from.
 * Crowd control directly counters Fiora's usefulness, making, , or a  good items to consider if you find yourself being CCd regularly.
 * One can build her as a glass cannon carry with items like, , and . Or, one can opt to build her as a more tanky dps type with proc effects using items like , and.
 * Fiora can be built in a "critless" manner as well due to her high AS. Items like, , and can be used to increase her damage output in such a build. It should be noted that  active is very useful in this type of a build. This type of a build along with items like  and  allow  to be rather tanky.
 * If one is running Armor Penetration runes, it's a good idea to get both and  on her, since she can recieve the full stacks for the armor shred easily.
 * Building a will cause all of Fiora's standard attacks to deal splash damage, including . In most games, a  will be a waste of gold and an item slot that you could have used on something else, and enemies will normally not be bunched up tightly enough to fully make use of the splash-damage passive but if your team has someone like  on it, who can keep the entire enemy team bunched up for a few seconds for you, you can potentially multiply your damage output heavily with a.
 * Keep in mind, however, that the role of Fiora is normally to pick off low health and/or high priority targets, making a questionable choie on her even with  on your team since  costs a fairbit of money for an item which doesn't tremendously augment your single-target damage, especially when Fiora's primary targets are often back-lines characters who won't be standing near enough to anything for  to deal any splash damage.
 * In any case, one should NEVER build more than two on any melee champion since, after buying two, all standard attacks will splash for 100% damage. Building more than two  will cause a champion to deal MORE damage to surrounding targets than they deal to the primary target of their attacks, which is rarely a useful situation unless you're smart enough to attack targets beside your target, dealing more damage to the intended target(s).
 * Statistically speaking, if a fiora builds 4, boots and a fully stacked bloodthirster with full ad runes and every hit of her ultimate damages and procs  on the whole enemy team, her damage output by her ultimate to her selected target will be close to 7000 damage, the other 3 champs physically hit by her ultimate will take over 7500 damage and the champ that was not physically hit by it will take over 8000 damage from the  alone. This is because her blade waltz hits only 5 times and the first and last hit are applied to the same target so they will take 25% damage on the last hit, the other champs hit by the ult (3 champs) take 3 times the 200%  damage and 50%  damage off the final ults strike. The champion left unhit by the ult itself will take 4 times the full 200%  damage and the 50% from the final hit. As every champion has armor and have an extremely low chance of ALL being in the  splash range, these numbers will be approximately 3-4 times what could be expected in-game. If only testing, buying a  instead of boots will take 20 armor off each enemy champion as well as giving around 200 more splash damage too (250 for the target not physically hit by the ult). This does not include the bonus AD from the baron buff.

Countering

 * A CC against Fiora when she activates will severely lower her damage output. In addition, if she is unable to autoattack or use  during the 3 second duration, she will not gain bonus movement speed.
 * Buying is a very good option as  relies heavily on basic attacks to cause damage and it would benefit almost every member of the opposing team and increase their survival chance.
 * Another good option is attack speed grinders such as, and , these all give an armor and attack speed debuff.
 * Fiora is strongly countered by anti AD champions, such a, and
 * is a great 1v1 top lane counter due to his which can completely avoid . As well as the bonus armor from  will reduce the damage from all of her other forms of offense.
 * counters her with his anti-AD abilities such as, and his tendency to build up armor to stack with
 * can take her on with his granting him incredible amounts of armor and  reducing her attack speed considerably.
 * Another great counter is Yorick, because he can drop his wraiths and run, whittling away at Fiora while taking Little Damage.
 * In general, long range harass, zoning, and running go a long way to controlling a Fiora at the top lane, because she has no reliable short cooldown ranged attack.

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