Champion Update: Fiora

[quote=VexRoth]Re the art, I'm of two minds on that. On the one hand, I like the geometry of her current face, however, practically all of the adult humanoid female champions pretty much look alike (same facial geometry) so on that other hand I'm kind of glad to get see a smidgen of diversity in facial features, even if it isn't to my taste. Play style that Duelist's Dance looks kind of awkward. One would think they should show up at something other than the cardinal points relative to the character model.[/quote]

[quote=Jimmydoggga 2.0]Let's not forget how her W blocks literally any form of damage.[/quote]

[quote=RottedApples]i feel like the new art reinforces her character some. even if it might take a little bit to get used to.[/quote]

[quote=Re4XN][quote=Jimmydoggga 2.0]Let's not forget how her W blocks literally any form of damage.[/quote] Except it's a skillshot that needs near-perfect timing and near-perfect aiming... besides, it should be A LOT easier to bait it now.[/quote]

[quote=HiFromBuddha]I'm honestly really sad over these changes because there's basically no remnant of the original Fiora left in this. It's a drastically different champion with a drastically different playstyle. It's like they made a new champion chock full of new gimmicks and then tacked on an old name. I think it definitely has potential for fun. Also, she's ugly as fuck. I'm not so worried about the facial geometry, but the thing that really pisses me off is that hair. It's absolutely hideous. I have no fucking clue why they changed it. I have no fucking clue why they bothered changing Fiora's art so drastically, because the current version is far more appealing from an aesthetics standpoint. The new costume is not only dull, but it's completely lacking in anything interesting. I'm ringing in the fashion police here to say that the top is the most generic thing. It's basically a big white top. Like, who thought that would be better than that weird armour thing she had before. Gah, it really pisses me off how badly they made her from a thematic and art standpoint. I mean, the splash art as well. Fiora's original splash art is really awesome and unique for it's time. I feel like it also really captured the grace that Fiora and duelists of the sort pride themselves on. The new one is ugly, and it's uninteresting. It's an incredibly generic splash art bar the old splash arts that used champion models. [spoiler] EDIT: I was going to leave it at that, but fuck that. Sit the fuck down yung sprog. You getting your mind fucking opened today son. Let's just look at the splash art bit by bit, some ovary level analysis right here. First of all, that hair. As opposed to a stylish, au sexuale haircut like the previous one, they gave her the fucking, "I want to speak to your manager," haircut, a haircut that I generally associate with retarded, middle aged women that still think there's some youth in them, so they can be ballsy. The type of haircut that a woman that only asks for and buys grass-fed chicken, or locally raised, wild Atlantic salmon when she lives in LA. I had an art teacher with the exact same haircut. She was the epitome of what I'm describing. And now I like how they were trying to incorporate her signature pink streak within her hair, but now they've just made her look trashy. Like, a small pink streak that blends in well your hair is a little rebellious, showing that she likes to be in a few conflicting environments. Having the first fifth of her hair be a creamy pink is like displaying the Confederate flag on your hood. Sure it's rebellious, but it's a surefire signal that you're trashy as fuck. Now, we move onto the face. She has the same face I make when I smell the sweaty balls of the kid sitting next to me. Not to mention that her eyebrows look like the retarded drawn on eyebrows after a girl decides to shave them because she thinks she can do a better job. Refer to what I said about the haircut. I understand that in layman's terms, this is called a "resting bitch face", but fuck me, did the wind change or something? When did Fiora become a bitch? She was cocky, but not a bitch. So why the fuck are there people saying this better reflects her personality. The only thing her face reflects is the light coming through because they made her face look greasier than a McDonald's grill. I swear to god her cheek bones, nose and her jaw are all sharper than her rapier. I feel like they modeled her facial structure of Scarlett Johansson, it looks really similar. And now we move down to shoulders and arms. I can safely say that by trying to add some symmetry to her now ugly and almost intrusive to look at shoulder pads, they've made it look like a paper hat. Like, one of those shitty primary school ones where if you folded it anymore it could pass for a shitty paper boat as well. And her cape. What the fuck. Her cape was so cool before, with it being separated into three segments. Now they've just made it one white triangle. What. Why did they make her less interesting to look at. Like, from what I've seen, people who have thin strips for a cape always look fucking badass. A cape like that is, while thematically cohesive, ugly. Like, ugly. Just ugly. It doesn't look good. It's unpleasant to look at because of how retarded the cape looks. I used to tuck in a white table cloth into the back of my shirt and pretend I had a cape and then start running as fast as I could. While cute, I would also like to add I was an incredibly fat little boy, and I think you could've mistaken me for autistic with how I would just run in circles. I feel like Fiora is doing the same. What the fuck is left arm doing by the way? Like, I swear to god it's dislocated, because it reaching that far is just unnatural. Unnatural things are uncomfortable because they're different and unfamiliar and since I'm not used to it they scare me. But seriously, wouldn't her arm be more comfortable not doing that. Is this some sort of metaphor? Is life real? I don't even know. Like I've mentioned, the shirt is so boring. Like, it's white. Just white. Whiiiite. Looking at the shirt is like looking at a picture of the Little Rock Nine's first day trying to get to school. So much white, not enough of other colours. I feel like it's plausible that art team just said fuck it, because just looking at it, it just looks like something is missing. Like, is this another metaphor? Is Fiora just full of hidden messages? The white on the torso represents how empty her life is since her heart is dedicated to duels. The white triangle cloth is a representation of her French roots because throughout French history, a white triangular flag being raised seems to be very prominent. Also, if you thought that the Great Dividing Range range through Victoria to New South Wales, you would be wrong. It actually runs up Fiora's belly. Her tights are just, once again, boring. Like, they just made her wear dark tights. They even added those stripes that run down Adidas tracksuits. The legs also bring me to question, what is her pose? Like, I don't think I've seen a pose that is so lacking in majesty as hers. For someone that's meant to be smooth and gracious, her pose is really awkward. Like, the only rational thing I can think of that that pose could possibly mean is like, she's doing high knees or something to warm up. There's no reason for her to just lift one knee or leg up. Also, her left thigh looks like an ass-cheek, with how swollen it looks. Finally, the whole dynamic of the photo is just off. The pose is really pointless for one, but I've spoken about that. The lighting is just, once again, really uninteresting. If you thought that you weren't seeing enough white with Fiora's torso, they made the lighting as well as her environment predominantly white. This neutral colour just leaves a meh feeling all around. White is such a bland colour that it really doesn't invoke anything. Like I said, it's just boring. There's also the desperate attempt at trying to make this splash art interesting by sprinkling rose petals all over it, just like the bed in which 20 year anniversary sex of a middle aged couple takes place in. Anyway, I've ranted. Here's her [url=http://i.ytimg.com/vi/4OkjjBWrG50/maxresdefault.jpg]original splash art[/url] and her [url=http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-a-U_cBK0C4M/Va6UbytGezI/AAAAAAAAt8E/JxGdVdwbYUo/s640/image.jpg]new splash art[/url]. Also, take these ramblings with a grain of salt. I'm currently intoxicated on a drug called life and boredom, probably from looking at Fiora's new design too much. [/spoiler][/quote]

[quote=XeresAce][img]http://i.imgur.com/RzW7nya.png[/img] For the love of god rito...[/quote]

[quote=LevasK]DisturbedFox- From what I saw on one of the streams yesterday, the weakpoints don't change, unless you proc the passve or enough time passes for it to change on it's own.[/quote]

[quote=FalseoGod]I wanna have sex with this Buddha person. Although I think there's an overcriticism to the pose, in terms of geometry. The body looks correct the arm stretching is a consequence of perspective. The leg up tho... I guess she's probably resting her foot on the corpse of some dead cow? However, the face.. dear god. It's made of polygons. Why is her forehead reflecting light in a way that makes it look like it could cut a diamond? Her color theme is half referential to Victorious skins and Champion themes across fantasy. She used to look roguelike, now she looks like a poor attempt at being a champion of sorts. Too much white, too much lazy texturing and her hair makes no sense when placed against the rest of what she's wearing. It's pretty much like inviting your goth daughter to a wedding, you know she's gonna look really off in whatever dress you put her in, specially because her hair is fucking blue.[/quote]

[quote=Re4XN]I really hate the new splash art (I like it, but I hate her face...), I like the new model (though her jacket is gone D: ) and I think I will need to buy [[darius]] (I need to play champions of my skill level, lol) because her kit changed quite a bit. I was really sad her [[blade waltz]] got deleted, it really made her special and contrary to what people believe, it was possible to survive it. As I mentioned above, I don't like the healing thing and the fact her cool jacket is gone :( Other than that... looks like I'm going to have to start all over again and scratch my [[Fiora]] plays... make new ones... stuff like that. Also, regarding her [[lunge]], she won't be able to double dash instantly, which I guess was the point of reworking it, but having to wait 8 seconds to dash a second time (0% CDR) kinda ruins my current gameplay with her :/[/quote]

[quote=LevasK][[Blade Waltz]] had to go, or be drastically reworked, since it was an extremely toxic ability with little to no counter play, outside of stuff like [[Zhonya's Hourglass]]. While you could survive [[Blade Waltz]] when [[Fiora]] was not ahead, the true problems began when she got a little bit fed and started just pressing R brainlessly on the ADC and killing him/her, without there being anything him/her could do about it and in most cases, even if your support was there, all they could do is watch as their carry dies.[/quote]