Greetings, I'm Vel, and welcome to my guide to everyone's favourite arrogant AD carry, Fiora the Grand Duelist. This guide will focus on a Fiora build capable of great burst thorough the whole game while not building full glass cannon. The item sequences and masteries in this guide are meant to be used on a solotop or 2v2 lane, but it the item sequences can be used for jungling as well (switching the first item from Long Sword to Cloth Armor and 5 Health Potions and picking the appropriate jungling masteries. Enjoy your stay!

Fiora Laurent, the Grand Duelist
Cost: 6300 IP or 975 RP
Release Date: February 29, 2012




Statistics
Health 450 (+85 per level, 1980 at 18)

Health regen. 6.3 (+0.8 per level, 20.7 at 18)

Attack damage 54.5 (+3.2 per level, 108,9 at 18)

Attack speed 0.672 (+3.00% per level)

Mana 220 (+40 per level, 940 at 18)

Mana regen. 7.25 (+0.5 per level, 16.25 at 18)

Armor 15.5 (+3.5 per level, 78,5 at 18)

Magic res. 30 (+1.25 per level, 52,5 at 18)

Range 125

Mov. speed 325

• Absolutely massive burst damage, and good sustained damage thorough longer fights.
• Probably the most powerful self-steroid buff.
• Easy lasthits with Riposte's AD boost.
• Can sustain her health for a long time in jungle, or in a lane.
• Completely devours most ranged carries.
• A great duelist! (Duh!)
• Good base movement speed.
• Not as item reliant as some carries.
• Good gap closer ability. ( Lunge)
• Great AD scaling in her ultimate, Blade Waltz
• By far the sexiest and most badass AD carry.

• Squishy, surviving in lane needs focus.
• Absolutely no CC from abilities.
• Poor earlygame mana pool if you're spamming abilities too much.
• Silly run animation.

Duelist (Innate): Fiora regenerates 7 + (1 × level) health over 6 seconds each time she deals physical damage. Striking champions will cause this effect to stack up to 4 times.

While this is a decent earlygame passive for sustaining, it begins to wear off in usefulness mid/lategame. Having one stack of it isn't very effective, but it has it's uses when poking against enemy champions in lane.

Lunge (Active): Fiora dashes forward to strike her target, dealing physical damage. Fiora can perform the dash a second time within 4 seconds at no mana cost.

A great gap closer, but the skill seems to have poor AD scaling (+0.6 bonus AD). Don't let this deceive you, though. Once you gain some bonus AD, using this ability twice on the same target will give you a slight boost in damage. Mainly, you should use this for the utility as a gap closer. A great ability to use to jump onto their ranged carry. Do note that this ability will NOT proc on-hit effects.

Riposte (Passive): Fiora's attack damage is increased. (Active): Fiora parries the next basic attack within 1.5 seconds and reflects magic damage back to the attacker. Works against champions, monsters, and large minions.

This ability is great to avoid damage earlygame in lane. See that Ashe's first 100% crit arrow headed your way? Just pop Riposte. It'll parry all the damage and send back some magic damage. Even if the arrow is mid-flight and you activate Riposte, it will block it. The passive also grants you a great passive AD boost, which is why it should be picked first. The active of this ability will block all damage from one basic attack (or ability that procs on-hit effects, such as Ezreal's Mystic Shot or Garen's Decisive Strike), It will NOT save you from the on-hit effects such as Decisive Strike's silence, Ashe's Frost Arrow or the red buff DoT. This ability will not block abilities that do not apply on-hit effects.

Burst of Speed (Active): Fiora gains additional attack speed for 3 seconds. Each autoattack or Lunge she lands during this time increases her movement speed for 3 seconds, stacking up to 3 times. Killing a champion refreshes the cooldown on Burst of Speed. Assists reduce the cooldown by half of the base amount.

This an awesome ability. The AS burst this gives is massive and you can make the most of it by first using Lunge on your enemy, activating the Burst of Speed and using Lunge again, granting you the movement speed buff and allowing you to stay ontop a fleeing enemy. It is also great for quick skirmishes in lane, leaving you with 4 stacks of Duelist that buff up your health regen. The correct timing for this ability can make or break a good Fiora. Using this too early or getting it denied will hurt your damage, especially earlygame when the CD is very long. You don't have to be a rocket physichist to realize you should use this after Sion popped his stun on you.

Blade Waltz (Active): Fiora dashes around the battlefield, becoming untargetable in the process, and striking random enemy champion(s) 5 times, dealing physical damage. Successive hits against the same target deal 25% damage. The first and last attack will be against the same target. Each strike applies on-hit effects.

This ultimate is simply amazing. It's like an improved Alpha Strike, in the form of physical damage, great AD scaling, ability to hit the same target 5 times and applying on-hit effects each strike. This ability shouldn't usually be used as an opener, though. Using it after Burst of Speed is on cooldown, or if you're being focused in a teamfight, or if you're low on health. Blade Waltz benefits from lifesteal greatly, which is why it should be used after you've taken some damage. It also makes you untargetable for the whole duration. However, if you're too low on health, dots that have been already applied, or missiles flying at you will kill you even during the strikes. Using this ability will drop turret aggro, and the untargetable factor can be great when you're being dived, allowing you to burst down your enemies with your tower. This, too, is an ability that will make or break a good Fiora. Using Blade Waltz exhausted nearly completely crumbles your damage, and lifesteal with it. Even worse, if you're blinded, none of the strikes will land. If your target dies or stealths during this ability, it will end. More upsides to this ability though, you can't be blinded or exhausted during it, and it applies on-hit effects. (This means Madred's Bloodrazor will proc 5 times during it, for a total of 20% magic damage of their health!) During Blade Waltz, you are able to use some summoner spells (such as Ignite.)

I prefer to begin with Riposte at level 1. This grants me a good AD boost of 15 damage, and the ability to reflect back some damage if the enemy decides to attack. At level two, I pick Burst of Speed because Lunge has poor AD scaling, and it will help you fighting head-on with the enemy if they decide to strike. However, if you're doing good and you don't need the 'roids, you can pick Lunge for the gap closer utility. When Blade Waltz becomes available, you should obviously pick it at all times. (Levels 6, 11 and 16.)

Short story shorter, my preference of skill sequence is:
Blade Waltz > Riposte > Burst of Speed > Lunge

For runes, I prefer to pick the common AD carry choices. Those being Armor Penetration, Flat Armor and Magic Resist per level. For Quintessences, I pick Flat Armor Penetration, but if you need the earlygame bulkiness, you should pick flat health.

Marks: 9x Greater Mark of Desolation
Seals: 9x Greater Seal of Armor
Glyphs: 9x Greater Glyph of Scaling Magic Resist
Quintessences: Greater Quintessence of Health or Greater Quintessence of Desolation

For masteries, I pick a simple 21-0-9 build. This is my personal preference and I find it most effective, but using it or something else is up to you. Going 21-9-0 isn't a bad idea if you want to have earlygame defense.

Why didn't I pick Lethality ? This build is Attack Damage focused, and even with the full build you would only reach 18% crit.

The rest masteries should be self-explanatory.

I've been playing Fiora since her release, and as most of you probably know, building full glass cannon is rarely smart unless you're pubstomping. During my games, I've chosen my items to often be like the item sequence shows. However, items should always be situational, and you should build according to the team's needs.


But why Long Sword? It's a good starting item for the AD boost if you don't need the Doran, you'll have a headstart for building Madred's Razors.

For summoner spells, I've picked Ignite and Flash. Flash I picked for obvious reasons, but why Ignite? Well, sometimes I find myself in a kill-or-be-killed situation. And Fiora is, obviously, a burst champion. While Exhaust is very effective in locking down a carry, Ignite often grants some extra burst and I seriously can't count the times I've earned First Blood with it or killed off some lucky sod who escaped with 65 hp. Also, you're able to use Ignite during Blade Waltz, so you have plenty of time to pop it on an enemy you're nuking (or someone else, depending on the situation.) If you prefer Exhaust though, it is a very viable choice. This is of personal preference. Junglers will always obviously pick Smite.

05.03.2012: Added Boots and 3x Health Potions to the Starting Items section.
05.03.2012: Changed Item Sequence to include Last Whisper instead of Black Cleaver, and added Last Whisper into the Situational Items section.
20.05.2012: Added Wit's End into the Situational Items section. Also updated some other sections with minor changes.

And so, my guide is finished so far. It's the first I've written, and english is not my native language, so bear with my typos and point them out!

Please do leave me a comment and vote the guide, it means alot. If you downvote, please do tell me why, and what should be improved. And before you do downvote, try the build out!

Criticism is always welcome, I don't expect the guide to be perfect, so do point out flaws if you believe they exist!

Thank you for staying.
- Vel.