Fiora Wild Rift Build & Guide

Innate: Duelist’s Dance

Her passive reveal an enemy’s “Vital” on a random angle near the enemy champion. It is somewhat like revealing the enemy’s weak points and Fiora can strike them using her 1st, Lunge, 2nd, Riposte, or auto-attacks.

When Fiora strikes a Vital, she deals additional true damage, heals herself, and she gains bonus movement speed.

Vitals show up in these angles ⇖ ⇗ ⇘ ⇙ and they are revealed in opposites which are grouped like this: ⇖⇙ and ⇗ ⇘. This means if the Vital which appears is this one: ⇖, the next Vital will be either one of these: ⇗ ⇘.

⇖ to ⇗ or ⇘

⇙ to ⇗ or ⇘

⇗ to  ⇖ or ⇙

⇘ to  ⇖ or ⇙

Striking Vitals is key to playing Fiora in all stages of the game. At the start of the match, position yourself in a deep bush near the enemy’s base to quickly strike the enemy’s Vitals so you will start the laning phase with an early advantage.

Always start your trades with your abilities available so you will be able to strike the enemy’s Vitals with ease. If your abilities are on cooldown, distance yourself for a while waiting for it to refresh.

Take note that enemies can counter Duelist’s Dance by sticking the side where their Vital is into a wall.

Q | 1st: Lunge

Lunge is a dash ability that damages an enemy unit. It damages enemies in a short and small area. The direction which it hits follow a prioritization model like this:

1. Vitals
2. Enemies who will die on a Lunge hit
3. Champions
4. Monsters or Minions

There might be times where you’ll be using Lunge to kill an enemy then another champion comes with their Vital pointing towards your Lunge direction. It will hit the champion’s Vital instead which will likely result in the enemy running away.

Lunge’s cooldown is reduced by half when you hit an enemy so make sure you hit something when using the ability because you’ll be punished with a long cooldown if Lunge hits nothing.

A neat trick to Lunge is to execute a short-range Lunge by controlling the direction where you will land by holding and dragging the ability button. Usually, an enemy will counteract with their abilities when you use Lunge so doing this trick randomly (you don’t want to be predictable when using Fiora) will waste their abilities. You’ll still be able to land the Lunge because it extends from the dash direction in a circular AoE.

Lunge applies on-hit effects except for Bladework’s effects.

W | 2nd: Riposte

Riposte is a parry ability and is Fiora’s main outplay tool. She channels upon casting and becomes invulnerable to all damage except turrets. She then thrusts in a small AoE in front of her which deals damage and slows the enemy’s movement speed and attack speed. If Fiora becomes affected by crowd control during the channeling stage, the CC is absorbed and the thrust will now stun instead of slowing enemies.

Riposte is a great defensive and 1v1 weapon for Fiora. She is strong with it and it makes enemies think twice about fighting you. Without it, enemies can land their skills on you without worry.

So think twice about when to use Riposte. Knowing when to use this ability will come from playing Fiora a lot because situations will vary depending on who you are matched up with.

Offensively, Riposte can be used in combination with Lunge to execute a “Slideparry“. A term coined by SpookeyNeedles from the Discord channel for Fiora mains.

The Slideparry should be used to land a stun to counter a winding crowd control ability of an enemy. A few examples which this is easy to do is against Jinx’s Flame Chompers, Lux’s Light Binding, and Gragas’s Explosive Cask.

The Slideparry is extremely risky and should be used with caution or if only you are feeling confident about your game.

Riposte’s stun is just a secondary factor or simply a “bonus”. Deflecting an attack and then simply slowing the enemy will already result in a big advantage for you.

E | 3rd: Bladework

Bladework amps up your DPS by being an auto-attack reset, increasing your attack speed, applying a slow in the first attack, then doing a guaranteed critical hit on the second attack.

Bladework should be used as an auto-attack reset in the laning phase to further nudge you into your unfair laning advantage because if you land a Vital strike then followed it up with a Bladework attack, you will have increased movement speed while the enemy will be slowed. This gives you a kiting advantage and will likely result in another successful Vital Strike.

Lunge applies on-hit effects but not Bladework’s effects.

R | Ultimate: Grand Challenge

Upon activation of Grand Challenge, four Vital spots are revealed in the target Champion. Striking all Vitals or killing the target champion after at least striking one Vital will summon a field that heals you and your team.

Grand Challenge is a great burst and outplay tool because it allows you to strike multiple Vitals which will result in dealing a massive amount of true damage and healing yourself for each Vital hit and more when the healing field is activated.

With enough experience, Grand Challenge will allow you to win 1v1s with Champions with higher level and gold compared to you or even win 1v2 fights.

Combos:

Trade Combo: 1st + [Auto Attack] + 2nd  + AA + 3rd + AA (Omit first auto attack if enemy champion reacts aggressively)

Grand Combo: 1st + Ult + AA + 3rd + AA + 1st + AA (Strike a Vital first with 1st before activating Ult but if the Vital is in the opposite direction, start the combo with Ult)