User blog:Typhron/Fiora QoL changes

Hey, I'm Typhron. I do these things. You guys know the drill.

Alrighty, truth time. In some strangely bad way, I think I'm good at Fiora and have some valid say on how she should be rebalanced if she ever gets a buff/nerf, thinking she's rather good. That's not a popular opinion. Infact, the perception right now is that Fiora is either a) sleeper OP or b) Tryndamere/Roll Tier with everyone being in either camp. Either way, she's a bit of a nightmare for folks. That's probably on purpose.

Honestly? She's oddly 'balanced', if needing an update here and there. Of course, there's also that melee carries got shafted this Season and the Yi rework makes highlights how much of a AD-centric copy of the old Yi she was. So here's what I think would make her fun-er, for what it's worth. Currently she is an Assassin/Carry people try to play as a bruiser (keynote: Don't ; 3;), so let's try keeping that theme/making it more straightforward. Most Fighters all have similar themes in common, which Fiora somewhat lacks in the same vein.

And as always, I'm open to suggestion.

Hide= Changes & Reasoning= ''I didn't change squat. :T'' Old Version=

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 * Switched her base passive and her W!passive with each other.
 * Changed the flat AD to a flat% of her total AD. On average it should be the same amount.

''The old passive was simply called "Duelist" and gave the vibe that Fiora loved to fight/had a way of staying in the battle longer than most opponents of her kind. Tried to keep that sense of feel while keeping in mind that Fiora is presented as an Upper Echleon Fighter that shouldn't be discounted due to their customs" (Dudley from Street Fighter comes to mind). To that end, switching around and modernizing the passives seemed like a good idea.'' Old Version=

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 * Q can now target allies while dealing no damage, akin to.
 * Reduced the base damage of each strike.
 * Made it apply on-hit effects, as well as functionality with other abilities.

''Lunge is still the same now without messing with the overall meaning of the ability. She's just as dangerous as she always was with this ability, only now she has a Renekton/Lee Sin-esque Dash in/Dash out thing for her to use.'' Old Version=

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 * Switched the Reposte!passive and her basic passive.
 * Gave the basic passive a slight number buff
 * Made her basic passive work with leveling up the ability.
 * Gave it functionality to work with jungle monsters. You know, for jungling.
 * Reworked the active to make her ignore all damage for one second, and curing/removing all debuffs for her for one second.
 * Post activation, she is still susceptible to CC.
 * Greatly increased the cooldown and made it not work against turret fire.
 * The ability is lowered each time she lands Lunge on an enemy champ.

''Reposte isn't bad. The problem with it is that, for Fiora, it feels oddly out of place from a gameplay standpoint while being really great thematically. She parries an attack (even an enhance auto attack or an ability like while punishing her opponent and giving her the upper hand...for a small bit of damage. To that end changing the ability was a bit difficult and, to that end, I hope the newer version retains a little bit of what made the ability fun, while putting a new spin on it. Not named after a certain manga at all. '' Old Version=

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 * Raised the base speed bonus to 4 seconds.
 * Made the additional duration stack 2 seconds each
 * Overall of the movement speed duration outcome raised by 1 second. Overall attack speed duration outcome raised by 7 seconds.

''Largely unchanged, except for adding what I thought it does now into the ability. Because I'm tool.'' Old Version=

Hide= Changes & Reasoning= * Blade Waltz can "crit". Shamelessly stolen from. To this end, the ability could be too random now.


 * Using Fiora's abilities (not necessarily landing damage with them) reduces the overall cooldown by 3 seconds.

''Still a Yi/Juggernaut clone, but wth her ult. It doesn't crit due to the fact that the ability is, on it's own, very strong. Additional damage through an ability critical strike could turn a Fiora with 300 AD, an IE and the +10% crit damage mod, at level 16+ hit a squishy target for 2000 damage on a chance. Reducing the base damage would hurt critless Fiora, so it's easier to just not include it or find another way to add that functionality.'' Old Version=

 So, how is this, anyway? Salright lolno