Talk:Fiora/@comment-88.102.160.74-20120604073443/@comment-177.32.26.167-20120604194911

Fiora is not a bruiser, at. all. period. Everything about her, from her stats to her entire kit is very much carry. Thinking of her as a bruiser and comparing her to the champions that traditionally bear the sobriquet will quickly show that she's significantly worse at it than literally all others in literally all regards. The only reason people play her bruiser-y is because she's a melee champion, who's very squishy, has no cc of any kind, has no reliable defensive tools, no reliable escape tools and her engaging tool being rather limited as well; This makes playing her at full glass cannon mode very much a gamble and you rely far too much on external elements, these being your own team composition and coordination and lack of such from the opposing team, even though she can potentially out-dps other carries; In the current meta, she almost demands her player to build some survivability.

Melee carry don't "sux", but they are absolutely harder to play, the more competent your enemies are. Far as the others, Tryndamere is by far more viable than Fiora at high ELO or tournaments, being typically considered the only viable melee carry; Yi is an odd arguable case, but he's probably "safer" than Fiora, and surely more versatile.