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No Aatrox should be really beating you, at level two you can look to all in by parrying either 2nd or 3rd Q, whichever one you don't parry try to dodge. You want to try and make sure to stun him with this, but if you don't you should still win as long as you parry or dodge the 2nd/3rd Qs. Level 6+ he can look to 1v1 you if you don't parry and burst him, so make sure to really be poking him out with vitals and forcing him into bad trades. If Aatrox all-ins you with full HP and you don't parry + stun him and you don't have a lead, you CAN lose it. Overall a pretty easy matchup as long as you take your front-facing vitals in as well as parry/dodge those Qs.
Akali
Definitely one of Fiora's hardest matchups. If you don't know the matchup then take the fleet/grasp page. If the Akali doesn't know the matchup you can look to parry right when she takes her 2nd E in. This will usually parry the damage from the E AND the empowered auto, but more importantly it will slow her a LOT. You need to wait for her shroud to go down to ult her, otherwise she will just sit in the ult and **** you with Qs. Watch out for an all in where she just Rs on your head, if you get low then either take a good short trade using parry on 2nd E or empowered auto so she can't all in. If she DOES all in with R and you are low, odds are you are dead, but if you parry the 2nd E and you quickly proc R you might be able to outplay it. Definitely a matchup you CAN ban if you want, but bans are usually saved for GP + malphite. If the akali is good and doesn't let you parry 2nd E until you are pretty much dead, look to parry any passive auto, as it will usually mean you land parry + block a good chunk of damage.
Camille
This matchup is definitely Fiora favored in low-elo, but some really good Camille one tricks can win the matchup. Look to parry 2nd E, or her empowered Q. If you parry either of these, you need to burst her fast or else they will come off CD again and you will just die. A good camille will miss E on purpose to bait parry, if she is baiting parry then don't parry 2nd E and just go for the Q. You can look to trade by using Q on front-facing vitals, just make sure you don't walk in auto range as her passive will force you to hard lose a short trade if you Q in.
Cho'Gath
One of your easiest tank matchups, simply parry his Q and poke with vitals whenever he walks up. Take Doran's shield into him usually so you don't get low enough to R. You should try and develop a lead before bramble vest, as once he has it unless you have a lead he might proceed to absolutely **** on you for rest of lane.
Darius
One of Fiora's harder matchups, once you learn this matchup it becomes much easier but at first it will feel horrible. Take ignite usually, plus the nimbus cloak page. If you are both full hp, do NOT parry the E, it is a death sentence. He will just auto you and run you down once hes out of stun. Parry his empowered auto (W) because it is a large chunk of undodgeable damage that comes with a big slow that will **** you. Most fights will play out one of two ways: A bad darius will walk up and Q to take a free trade, if this happens, instantly Q into him. He will then E you (this is fine) but immediately parry after the E knockup is done because this will parry his auto after the E (which is usually his W). From here, look to constantly Q into his Qs as he can't heal, make sure to pop your ignite early so that if you **** up a Q he doesn't heal to 50% hp and kill you for free. The other Darius player is the good darius player, he will look to walk up and start with E or W. You need to study how they play because every Darius main plays a little differently. Some Darius players will go E > W > Q, some will W > E > Q, some will W > Q > e, and some will E > Q > W. either way, you simply need to Q into his Q and parry the W, or he will **** you. You can also use your Q to dodge his E with prediction if he is one of the Darius players who holds his E for after his auto > w.
Dr. Mundo
You can take ignite into this matchup if you want, but I wouldn't really recommend it. Simply rush executioners and call it a day. Dodge whatever Qs you can, otherwise sit behind wave unless he walks up at which point you will win a trade. You need to parry his empowered auto, it gives his hands a red aura and he will headbutt you. Parrying this will **** his dps and give you a usually free kill.
Gangplank
Probably your hardest matchup as Fiora. Take revitalize + second wind second, but you don't have to go fleet, you can take grasp, fleet, or conq (up to you and how confident you are). You need to parry his passive or a barrel, but usually his passive. You have to Q out of barrels or you will get **** on, while also Qing into him otherwise he will spam Q until you die. When he Rs, you need to get outside of it as the MS slow will slow down your Q and make popping ult impossible. Again, this matchup is extremely hard and definitely worth the ban if you're willing to face malphite.
Garen
Garen is a more complicated matchup then you would think. Take conqueror always into him and avoid trading in his wave at level 1, his Q auto reset will **** you. Only poke at level 1 if he uses Q on a minion or walks up to CS you can Q right when he autos the minion. You MUST watch out for the R one shot with ignite, this makes healing off ult very hard. You MUST ult at the very beginning of any 1v1 or else he will absolutely **** on you, nothing you can do. You have to look to parry his Q or his R. The problem with garen is, if you parry the Q you can't parry the half hp ult one shot, and if you want to parry ult, well he silences with Q so you can't parry at all. The best option is to run when he pops Q, then turn with R and all in him. He will sometimes stay in it and you will win if you parry the R (If you are both 1v1ing and are both half and he has ult up, get ready to parry the Q + R, as he will use both in rapid succession sometimes so you might be able to parry both). I'd recommend shield and revitalize + second wind into him to try to keep up with his passive.
Gnar
Its a lot like teemo, you need to simply Q into him then parry his boomerang OR the 3rd auto stack. Either of these are fine but you need to hit him with the parry to half attack speed/MS. Watch his Mega Gnar bar, as if he is about to transform you need to parry the R or the normal stun. Hes overally pretty easy just make sure you rush stride.
Gragas
Unironically one of Fiora's hardest matchups that isn't worth the ban.
You NEED to parry his big *** stomach stun, as this will cancel your Q and put it on the FULL CD (If you don't know, landing Q with fio halves the CD). If he goes full tank you need a lead before bramble, same with all other tanks. watch out for him 1 shotting you at half hp, and don't combo him when he is purple because this makes him much tankier and he will tank a full ult and still be healthy. Dodge his barrels and if you play the rest right you will be 100% fine.
Heimerdinger
Another really hard matchup, if you see this guy in ranked you should probably just dodge or spam ping jungle help. You cannot fight him in his turrets as they **** you, so always play back and wait for him to push past them. You need to parry his grenade + dash out of the missiles, or else you will get 1 shot. Again, his turrets will literally solo kill you as they give him movement speed and do incredible DPS, AVOID THEM AT ALL COSTS!!!!
Illaoi
Simply parry or dodge the E, and let her R. When she Rs, you MUST run at all costs. It does NOT matter if you lose your ult in the process, if you fight her as full hp and shes half in her ult and you have no lead you will just get 2 shot and she will out-heal you. You have to leave the R ASAP.
Irelia
Probably one the Easiest matchups, pre-6 parry her E and don't walk up when she has 5 stacks, you will just absolutely **** on her if you do these things. Post 6, dodge the E with your Q and parry the R IF possible, otherwise just parry her Q dash into you after her ult, and simply avoid fighting her when shes at 5 stacks.
Jax
Probably one of the most balanced matchups in the game, but late game jax can **** on you if you dont parry his E and if he has heal cut. You need to be trying to parry E at all stages of the game, this is what makes the matchup simply so hard, he has the advantage there because he can hold it for a very long time to try and bait parry. You have to study how the Jax player uses his E, whether or not he pops it instantly or if he likes to hold onto it for a while. You CAN Q vitals during E, just not auto. Look to ult him right when you stun him with parry on his own E.
Jayce
Very cancer matchup, probably take fleet or grasp into him and do your best to dodge his high damage skill-shot. If you can parry the knockback and stun him you will definitely win it, but youve gotta kill him fast. He scales really well so be careful and don't feed him early or it is GG.
Kayle
I'd recommend grasp or fleet here. Just look to all in her while parrying her skill-shot slow pre-6. Parry her ult post 6 or flash out of it, as it does a lot of damage and ****s your ult over. You need to land parry to stop her from spamming autos and running but overall pretty easy matchup.
Kennen
This matchup is a little harder, look to take front-facing vitals in for trades. You should always look to parry his stuns so you can stun him and burst him. If this isn't working because hes a smart Kennen and waiting for parry or he is stunning twice in one fight with ult then you can let him full combo you + ult, and then proceed to just all in him + parry on him and you will kill him as long as he burned everything already on you before.
Malphite
Probably your worst matchup, tied with or right below gangplank. Take fleet or grasp probably, but conq works here too. If you are above 50% hp look to keep parrying as many Qs as you can. Definitely without a doubt take revitalize + second win + dorans shield here. If you're all-inning pre 6, which sometimes can work if he is low enough off of a jg gank or vital procs, you need to parry one of his empowered autos OR the ground pound as both suck. You should only all in if he has already used Q to CS or his Q MS buff just wore off of you from his last poke. If you are below half, you have to parry ult and then usually just run, if he is also below 50% you can try to ult him and 1 shot burst him (very unlikely but if he is low enough it can work). Just usually reset below 50% if you can, or he will just 1 shot you under tower without hesitation.
Mordekaiser
This matchup is fiora favored overall, but mordekaiser can definitely win it. You need to dodge as many Qs and Es as you can. If possible, you can try to predict his R and parry that. If he is low enough where you know one stun will kill him then parry his E and hit him with it (You can Q + E if you need to land it easier). If he is full hp all-inning you and you know you can't dodge the Q about to hit you, then parry it or tank half ur hp. You need to r pretty early here, and respect his W shield bar, as if it is full he will shield a LOT of dps. Run away after you proc ult if you can, then re-engage when his passive is gone (play around his passive as much as possible).
Ornn
This is my favorite matchup as Fiora, please never lose this. It is pretty simple, you parry his W auto as it does a lot of damage and will stun him for free. If you are low and he is low, then parry his E knockup so you can burst him without getting bursted. If it is post 6 then you need to parry his r and try to dodge the last part of his W (only the end of it procs the empowered auto, if you q out of that you will be fine).
Wukong
Matchup ****ing sucks, spam ping jungle for assistance. You need to parry his dash in as you will usually parry his Q as well. Once he presses R once, you should try to parry this but if you don't its okay, but either way once he uses the fisrt one, ****ING RUNNNN, the second r will screw you over and if he gets it off youre probably already dead.
Kled
Fiora is one of the best picks into kled. You should try and parry or dodge his bear trap, if it hits you then parry it to stun him. If you dodge the bear trap, use parry to parry some of the first 3 autos and **** his attack speed. Watch out for how fast he can regain skarl and you'll be fine.
Nasus
Nasus will always be a late game menace. You are able to take divine sunderer and BORK if you want into him to try and burst his huge hp bar. You should look to bully and freeze on him in lane. Parry his first q but don't let him bait you into it. RESPECT him, do not think that just because he scales really well that he is bad early game. He is weaker early game, but is definitely capable of a a solo kill with wither/ult and running at you with Q.
Pantheon
A pretty fair matchup, very annoying champion though. You need to parry his stun for a pretty much guaranteed win 1v1. Watch out for his relatively short CDs later on, and do not greed for plates as he will R on your head from base and if you're low he will simply 1 shot you with a Q.
Singed
Singed is playing checkers while you are playing 4D chess. Just walk your wave into lane so he cant proxy, and try to predictively parry the shoulder throw. Watch out for his ground as it will stop you from Qing. Simply don't follow him in his poison and you will be completely fine, this matchup is pretty easy just don't look to catch him out too hard with his huge MS buffs and poison dps.
Shen
Shen is overall pretty basic, parry taunt or empowered auto (either is fine). You need to spam ping his lvl when he hits 6 and tell your team he can ult since you have 0 cc. You can Q while he is in the anti-auto attack dome. Be careful of taking short trades, as if he presses an ability he will get a free shield and could **** on you in a short trade. Use parry to **** his 3 empowered autos as they will come out way too slow for him to do the DPS he needs. Watch out once he has bramble/tabis since he will be harder to solo.
Yorick
DODGE HIS E OR DODGE THE GAME. If his E hits you, you are 100% dead. You need to avoid getting caught in his wall without having Q or else you will just get hit by a free E and run down. Don't fall behind as he will simply snowball like crazy and make the game unplayable. You need to look for an all in whenever his maiden has just died or isn't available.
Teemo
Easy matchup, take doran's shield, second wind, and revitalize. Parry blind and avoid shrooms (shrooms will absolutely kill you). Don't let him zone you off, he is very easy to solo kill but you need to land parry and avoid shrooms. Also watch out for his burst if he took ignite.
Sett
Don't try and parry E, it is extremely hard and even if you do parry the E, it is 90% of the time not worth. Look to parry his two Q autos or his W, but the Q autos are more important. You need to also dodge out of the W with your q. Watch out for a burst with CC on his ult combo. You need to be ready to instantly start fighting if he RKO's you into the ground.
Sion
Try and dodge his Q, parry ult. You can parry Q if you realize a pattern in when hes using it. Parry the shield if you don't parry the Q, as when the shield pops it hurts a lot. Pretty easy tank matchup, just use Q to dodge his Q and watch out for the bush cheese/burst with R.
Tahm Kench
Don't even try to fight level 1, you will just lose (guaranteed). You need to parry his eat while dodging his lick so he can't stun you. Predict that once you hit 3 stacks, he will automatically try and eat you or stun you, just parry right when you hit 3 stacks. You need to take front facing vitals then run back into your wave so he cant poke you. Watch out for the big *** shield.
Sylas
Parry his E and you'll be fine. You can rush executioner's if he gets a lead or you aren't ahead enough early. You should dodge his Q explosion with your Q (it hurts a lot). You know your ult way better than any sylas main should, just break your ult really fast and then hide his ult in a wall. Again, parry E, as it is extremely telehraphed and a free stun.
Urgot
You must parry his E, or else you will get **** on early. try to dodge his ult with your Qs (if you don't it should still be fine). Look to poke with vitals and dodge his Q with your Q. Just make sure you parry his E (parry right when you see a shield pop up on him and you'll be fine).
Tryndamere
Tryndamere is almost worthy of going into the extreme tier. You need to make sure he doesn't dodge your parry with E or by just sidestepping it. You MUST land the parry or you will just lose. You need to ult him early on so you can get your healing while he is in invincible mode. Once he pops ult, just start running around in your healing until it wears off. Don't 1v1 him if he has ult up and you're are low at all (even while you have a hefty lead, he can 1v1 with ult).
Riven
Try to parry her third Q, it is usually really telegraphed. A good riven might be able to beat you but it should still be Fiora favored. You need to watch out for a w - q - auto - ult burst. Try to flash her ult if you can, if not then just simply ult on her head when she Qs in and burst her, while parrying that Q so she cant dash around when you ult.
Poppy
Poppy is a very hard matchup. She has extremely high burst and can cancel your Q. You pretty much need to make sure to dodge the 2nd part of her ground slam. Avoid walls at all costs, it is pretty damn hard to parry her wall stun and not worth the attempted bait. Look to parry her ult, while dashing around. Early game you can Q - W to parry the Q cancel and stun her. She will rush armor so expect to have little healing.
Quinn
Try to parry her kick-flip, and stun her with it. If you need to, you can Q - W, as when you Q in she will probably instantly go to combo you. Make sure to rush stride and don't let her poke you without hitting your vitals too. You need to watch out for her roams and ping her level 6 or else your whole team might just die :). Very high burst, and bushes aren't safe so don't try and bush cheese as she can simply get free vision around her. You need to land parry for the slow and attack speed removal.
Volibear
Parry q or empowered W and you should win most trades. At all costs, do not hard all-in him if he has a w mark on you, or has w up. He will heal an incredible amount and make it very hard to kill him. You can definitely blow him up late game, so you out-scale very hard. Don't throw lane, play safe and just don't greed.
Soraka
This champ is ****ing nuts with Fiora. You will become so hard to kill the enemy team will want to ff 15 and give up. You need to make sure she understands to be healing you in team fights to keep you alive or that she can try to split with you.
Lulu
Just like soraka, you can team fight well if you have a lulu on your team. You can Q in and she can ult you so you don't instantly die and you'll CC the enemy team with the ult.
Synergies
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Soraka
This champ is fucking nuts with Fiora. You will become so hard to kill the enemy team will want to ff 15 and give up. You need to make sure she understands to be healing you in team fights to keep you alive or that she can try to split with you.
Lulu
Just like soraka, you can team fight well if you have a lulu on your team. You can Q in and she can ult you so you don't instantly die and you'll CC the enemy team with the ult.
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Why play Fiora?
If you enjoy split pushing, dueling, and 1 shotting tanks with true damage, then you'll love Fiora. Fiora is an excellent split pusher, made to 1v1 the enemy top laner with huge amounts of late game true damage. She has been my main champion of choice as a 1v9 carry top for a long time now. Fiora does have an overall weak team fight, but you can still 1 shot carries with flash and good mechanics. Fiora is a hard champion, with a high skill floor and an even higher skill ceiling. At first she will be hard to play, but as you get used to her you will be able to carry games with your lead.
How to play Fiora overall
We can break the game down into 3 separate categories. Early-game, mid-game, and late-game. In the early-game as Fiora, you need to be looking to solo kill or at least get a lead on your enemy laner in some sort of way (in some matchups this just isn't possible though). However, if you don't feel comfortable getting a lead, don't force fights you don't have to take, you will out-scale almost all champions and just win by not inting the game. In mid-game you should look to split a little bit, but mostly go for the important OBJs (dragons and rift herald). Late-game Fiora excels, as a hard scaling duelist. You should look to be hard-core splitting and 1v1ing/2v1ing anyone you come across. You can even look to dive 1v1 if you played the rest of the game right. You are known as a pressure sponge for a reason, split to win while your team goes for Objectives (they can only stop one of you from accomplishing your goal).
Fiora's abilities
Each and every one of Fiora's abilities is very important to playing her successfully. The chapters below have in-depth explanations for each of them.
Fiora's passive (Duelist's Dance)
Fiora's passive is what all her abilities play around. You can use auto attacks, your Q, or your riposte to proc them. The vitals heal you, give you free MS, and deal a lot of true damage (especially late game). You need to be playing around these ALWAYS (otherwise you will be 100% useless). Fiora's vitals aren't completely RNG like some may believe, There are two different "types" of vitals. Type 1 is the vital that spawns facing North or East, once you break this vital it will become either of the Type 2 vitals. The Type 2 vitals are the South and West vital. Fiora's vitals will always alternate between these two types, North can never be an East vital and South can never be a West vital (and vice versa.)
Fiora Q (Lunge)
Fiora's Q is the bread and butter of her kit. It lets you proc vitals for your ult, for general trading, and for poking in lane. Your Q will outrange melee-range auto attacks if used at max range. This is excellent in top lane as most champions are melee and it lets you poke vitals for MS, healing, and true damage. You can also use your Q to dodge important abilities of champs, like dodging a Sion Q by Qing to a side vital.
Fiora W (Riposte)
This ability is why Fiora is so hated and is also what she is known for. You can parry ANY ability to cancel the damage, debuffs, and CC (And if you riposte CC it will actually stun them instead). This doesn't mean parrying a morgana Q will root the enemy for just as long, it will always stun for two seconds regardless of what you parry. This ability is an extremely long CD and you must play around that CD. The enemy will look to all-in you when it is on CD so don't waste it! You can use it to snipe vitals for kills or poke in lane. This ability can also be used while you are dashing with Q to dash into CC and parry it. You shouldn't always be parrying CC, you want to usually parry the highest damaging ability the enemy has (but sometimes parrying the CC is the right move).
Fiora E (Bladework)
Fiora's E is super important for your ult. Since Fiora's base attack speed is so low, you need to be using your E to auto reset on vitals. Your 2nd E AA will always crit for extra damage. Your E also slows people, so use it to stick on top of people and run them down.
Fiora R (Grand Challenge)
Fiora's R is one of the best out-play tools in the game. You can use it to quickly heal to full health even if you are literally 2 hp. You need to sit in practice tool and practice getting fast full ult proc times. You need to be using your Qs, and aoe damage like stride to proc vitals faster. Your E is very important to Auto Reset for the vitals. In teamfights, you need to proc it fast since it will heal your whole team an insane amount. You Should be ulting at the beginning of 1v1s so you can proc it before death, and in team fights you should ult any carries or a super big unkillable tank (Fiora is an anti-tank champion like vayne since she does % max hp true damage).
Matchups
The matchups section in this guide is extremely in-depth and will help you win lane more often. Please check it out if you want to master Fiora, as learning how to 1v1 the enemy top is half of the champion. Also, please up-vote the guide so more people see it!
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