Fiora, Fighter / Assassin
Fiora, the Grand Duelist, is a Fighter and Assassin champion in League of Legends. Everything below comes from Riot's Data Dragon for patch 16.21.1: ability text, base stats and Riot's tips. Counters and matchups by class are worked out from that text, and each one shows its reason.
Playing as Fiora
Riot's own tips
Thanks to Duelist's Dance, Fiora excels at quick trades. Use the Move Speed boost from striking a Vital to escape unscathed or set up for the next one.
Grand Challenge allows Fiora to take down even the most durable opponents and then recover if successful, so do not hesitate to attack the enemy's front line.
Playing against Fiora
Riot's own tips
Duelist's Dance shows you where Fiora will try to attack from, so be ready to punish her when she tries.
Be careful when casting immobilizing disables on Fiora. If her Riposte is available, she can turn their power against you.
What the kit does
Analysis read from Riot's ability text. Each line shows the words it rests on.
WHard crowd controlRiposte: "or stuns them if"
- WSoft crowd control (slow, silence, blind)
Riposte: "This stab slows the first"
QDash, leap or blinkLunge: "Fiora lunges in a"
PHealing or life stealDuelist's Dance: "she restores Health and gains"
RHeals alliesGrand Challenge: "and her allies in the area are healed over the"
Fiora in recent patches
Every official patch that changed Fiora, newest first. Numbers from Riot's official notes (before and after).
- Patch 26.19buff
- Base Stats: Health Growth: 99 → 105
- R Grand Challenge: Heal Range: 550 → 600
- R Grand Challenge: Heal Per Tick: 18.75 / 25 / 31.25 (+15% bonus AD) → 20 / 26.25 / 32.5 (+17.5% bonus AD)
- R Grand Challenge: Maximum Heal: 375 / 500 / 625 (+300% bonus AD) → 400 / 525 / 650 (+350% bonus AD)
Fiora's abilities
Riot's own text and preview clip for each ability, from Riot's Data Dragon, patch 16.21.1. Pick an ability and its clip plays here, muted.
PPassive
Duelist's Dance
Fiora has revealed a Vital on this Champion. If she hits the Vital, she restores Health and gains Move Speed.
Effects in the text
Lunge
Fiora lunges in a direction and stabs a nearby enemy, dealing physical damage and applying on-hit effects.
Effects in the text
WW
Riposte
Fiora parries all incoming damage and disables for a short time, then stabs in a direction. This stab slows the first enemy champion hit, or stuns them if Fiora blocked an immobilizing effect with this ability.
Effects in the text
EE
Bladework
Fiora has increased attack speed for the next two attacks. The first attack slows the target, and the second attack will critically strike.
Effects in the text
RR
Grand Challenge
Fiora reveals all four Vitals on an enemy champion and gains Move Speed while near them. If Fiora hits all four Vitals or if the target dies after she has hit at least one, Fiora and her allies in the area are healed over the next few seconds.
Effects in the text
Items and runes that fit Fiora
Riot publishes no builds and this page invents none. Below: completed items ranked by how many of the stats Fiora's kit uses they give (attack damage (AD) first), the runes whose official text matches the kit, and picks for each enemy type. A fit, not a strength ranking. No win rates.
Closest stat fit
Editorial estimateCompleted items ranked by how many of the stats Fiora's kit uses they give. A fit, not a verdict: Riot publishes no builds and no win rates.
Stormrazor3,200- +50 Attack DamageFiora scales with it
- +25% Attack Speedits kit leans on basic attacks
- +25% Critical Strike Chanceits kit leans on basic attacks
The Collector3,000- +50 Attack DamageFiora scales with it
- +10 Lethalityits damage is physical
- +25% Critical Strike Chanceits kit leans on basic attacks
Yun Tal Wildarrows3,000- +50 Attack DamageFiora scales with it
- +45% Attack Speedits kit leans on basic attacks
- +0% Critical Strike Chanceits kit leans on basic attacks
Axiom Arc2,750- +55 Attack DamageFiora scales with it
- +18 Lethalityits damage is physical
Bastionbreaker3,000- +55 Attack DamageFiora scales with it
- +18 Lethalityits damage is physical
Blade of The Ruined King3,200- +40 Attack DamageFiora scales with it
- +25% Attack Speedits kit leans on basic attacks
More items with the same stat 38
Edge of Night3,000 gold
Experimental Hexplate3,000 gold
Guinsoo's Rageblade3,000 gold
Hubris2,800 gold
Kraken Slayer3,000 gold
Profane Hydra2,850 gold
Serpent's Fang2,500 gold
Statikk Shiv3,000 gold
Stridebreaker3,300 gold
Terminus3,000 gold
Trinity Force3,333 gold
Umbral Glaive2,800 gold
Voltaic Cyclosword3,000 gold
Youmuu's Ghostblade2,800 gold
Essence Reaver3,050 gold
Hexoptics C442,800 gold
Immortal Shieldbow3,000 gold
Infinity Edge3,500 gold
Lord Dominik's Regards3,300 gold
Mortal Reminder3,000 gold
Black Cleaver3,000 gold
Bloodthirster3,400 gold
Chempunk Chainsword3,000 gold
Death's Dance3,300 gold
Eclipse2,900 gold
Endless Hunger3,100 gold
Guardian Angel3,200 gold
Hextech Gunblade3,000 gold
Hullbreaker3,000 gold
Manamune2,900 gold
Maw of Malmortius3,100 gold
Mercurial Scimitar3,200 gold
Overlord's Bloodmail3,300 gold
Ravenous Hydra3,300 gold
Serylda's Grudge3,000 gold
Spear of Shojin3,100 gold
Sundered Sky3,100 gold
Titanic Hydra3,300 goldBoots
Rune fits
Editorial estimateRunes whose official text matches the most things Fiora's kit does. Each line shows the words it rests on.
Stormraider's SurgeSorcery, Keystone · Matches: 2- It can immobilize, slow or impair enemies: Riposte: "or stuns them if"
- It heals or restores health in the kit: Duelist's Dance: "she restores Health and gains"
AftershockResolve, Keystone · Matches: 1- It can immobilize, slow or impair enemies: Riposte: "or stuns them if"
ConquerorPrecision, Keystone · Matches: 1- It heals or restores health in the kit: Duelist's Dance: "she restores Health and gains"
Manaflow BandSorcery · Matches: 3- Its kit leans on basic attacks: Lunge: "and applying on-hit effects"
- It heals or restores health in the kit: Duelist's Dance: "she restores Health and gains"
- It uses mana: Mana
Font of LifeResolve · Matches: 2- It can immobilize, slow or impair enemies: Riposte: "or stuns them if"
- It heals or restores health in the kit: Duelist's Dance: "she restores Health and gains"
Presence of MindPrecision · Matches: 2- It heals or restores health in the kit: Duelist's Dance: "she restores Health and gains"
- It uses mana: Mana
Against each enemy type
Editorial estimateSituational picks, counted from what the champions of each class do in Riot's Data Dragon. Swap a slot when the enemy team has several of that class.
Tanks
Anti-heal 25 of 46 heal or sustain
Cleanse or tenacity 20 of 46 have two or more hard CC abilities
To cut through them Tanks stack armor and magic resist; these items give armor penetration.
Fighters
Anti-heal 39 of 59 heal or sustain
Armor 37 of 59 deal physical damage only
Assassins
Anti-heal 23 of 45 heal or sustain
Armor 22 of 45 deal physical damage only
Mages
Magic resist 53 of 75 deal magic damage only
Anti-heal 30 of 75 heal or sustain
Marksmen
Armor 14 of 33 deal physical damage only
Supports
Magic resist 36 of 43 deal magic damage only
Anti-heal 19 of 43 heal or sustain
Counted from the official ability text, League of Legends patch 16.21.1. These are counts of champions, not win rates.
Rune trees
Lit runes: their official text matches something Fiora's kit does (Analysis). Select a rune to read why.
Precision11 lit
Domination5 lit
Sorcery4 lit
Resolve8 lit
Inspiration5 lit
Matchups by class
Fiora against each class of champion, counted from the official ability text. Choose a class or a lane to narrow it down.
Against all 172 champions: 36 ahead, 53 even, 83 behind. Each class is read against that, so check the best and toughest tags too.
Against Tanks
WeakToughest class
3 ahead · 3 even · 40 behind of 46
- They cut your attack speed, which weakens auto-attack builds.
- Your damage is physical only, so they can stack armor against you.
What to do: A risky pick into tanks. Wait for the enemy draft before you lock it, or pick it with a team that covers the gap.
Against Fighters
Weak5 ahead · 14 even · 40 behind of 59
- Their true or percent-health damage ignores your resistances.
- They clear waves faster and can push the lane.
What to do: A risky pick into fighters. Wait for the enemy draft before you lock it, or pick it with a team that covers the gap.
Against Assassins
Even12 ahead · 14 even · 19 behind of 45
- Your hard crowd control stops their dashes.
- Their burst kills before your healing matters.
What to do: Neither side has a clear edge over assassins. Execution and the team around you decide it.
Against Mages
Even21 ahead · 30 even · 24 behind of 75
- You can lock down squishy targets that have few escapes.
- They cut your attack speed, which weakens auto-attack builds.
What to do: Neither side has a clear edge over mages. Execution and the team around you decide it.
Against Marksmen
EvenBest class
14 ahead · 12 even · 7 behind of 33
- You have early pressure while they need time to scale.
- They out-range you and poke you from a distance.
What to do: Neither side has a clear edge over marksmen. Execution and the team around you decide it.
Against Supports
Weak6 ahead · 19 even · 18 behind of 43
- They out-range you and poke you from a distance.
- Their silence shuts down your dash-based kit.
What to do: A risky pick into supports. Wait for the enemy draft before you lock it, or pick it with a team that covers the gap.
Source: Nexus Lab rules over the official ability text, League of Legends patch 16.21.1. Each champion of the class is compared with Fiora one by one; the counts come from those rules, not from match results, so they are not win rates. Strong, even and weak compare the number of champions ahead and behind. Lanes are the lanes each class usually plays (Riot ships no lane data per champion), not play rates.
Building against Fiora
Analysis: answers to what Fiora's own kit does.
Fiora heals or has life steal in the kit, so anti-heal is worth a slot. Duelist's Dance: "she restores Health and gains"
Fiora deals physical damage only, so armor pays off. Lunge: "dealing physical damage and applying"
Picks that can punish Fiora
Analysis: rules over Riot's ability text.
Blitzcrank
Counters youWhy (3)
Blitzcrank has hard CC (Rocket Grab: "damage and dragging it back") that can stop Fiora's dashes (Lunge: "Fiora lunges in a").
Fiora deals only physical damage (Lunge: "dealing physical damage and applying"), so Blitzcrank can stack armor (Tank role) against it.
Blitzcrank can silence (Static Field: "and silence them briefly"), which shuts down Fiora's dash-based kit (Lunge: "Fiora lunges in a").
Maokai
Counters youWhy (3)
Maokai has hard CC (Bramble Smash: "Maokai knocks back nearby") that can stop Fiora's dashes (Lunge: "Fiora lunges in a").
Fiora deals only physical damage (Lunge: "dealing physical damage and applying"), so Maokai can stack armor (Tank role) against it.
Maokai can avoid damage for a moment (Twisted Advance: "becoming untargetable and dashing"), and Fiora relies on burst (Assassin role).
Amumu
Counters youWhy (3)
Amumu has hard CC (Bandage Toss: "stunning and damaging") that can stop Fiora's dashes (Lunge: "Fiora lunges in a").
Fiora deals only physical damage (Lunge: "dealing physical damage and applying"), so Amumu can stack armor (Tank role) against it.
Amumu deals true damage (Cursed Touch: "take bonus true damage from incoming"), which ignores the resistances that Fiora relies on (Fighter role).
Sion
Counters youWhy (3)
Sion has hard CC (Decimating Smash: "up and stunned") that can stop Fiora's dashes (Lunge: "Fiora lunges in a").
Fiora deals only physical damage (Lunge: "dealing physical damage and applying"), so Sion can stack armor (Tank role) against it.
Sion deals damage based on the target's health (Glory in Death: "on his target's maximum Health"), which scales against a tough champion like Fiora (Fighter role).
Taric
Counters youWhy (3)
Fiora deals only physical damage (Lunge: "dealing physical damage and applying"), so Taric can stack armor (Bastion: "Passively increase the Armor of Taric") against it.
Taric has hard CC (Dazzle: "damage and stuns enemies") that can stop Fiora's dashes (Lunge: "Fiora lunges in a").
Taric can avoid damage for a moment (Cosmic Radiance: "making them invulnerable for a"), and Fiora relies on burst (Assassin role).
Leona
Counters youWhy (3)
Leona has hard CC (Shield of Daybreak: "damage and stunning the target") that can stop Fiora's dashes (Lunge: "Fiora lunges in a").
Fiora deals only physical damage (Lunge: "dealing physical damage and applying"), so Leona can stack armor (Eclipse: "shield to gain Damage Reduction, Armor, and Magic Resist") against it.
Leona clears waves more easily (Eclipse: "there are nearby enemies") and can push the lane against Fiora.
Who Fiora is good against
The same rules, read the other way.
Graves
You pressureWhy
Fiora has hard CC (Riposte: "or stuns them if") to catch Graves, a squishy champion with few escapes (Marksman role).
Quinn
You pressureWhy
Fiora has hard CC (Riposte: "or stuns them if") that can stop Quinn's dashes (Vault: "Quinn dashes to an").
Ezreal
You pressureWhy
Fiora has hard CC (Riposte: "or stuns them if") to catch Ezreal, a squishy champion with few escapes (Marksman role).
Karthus
You pressureWhy
Fiora has hard CC (Riposte: "or stuns them if") to catch Karthus, a squishy champion with few escapes (Mage role).
Miss Fortune
You pressureWhy
Fiora has hard CC (Riposte: "or stuns them if") to catch Miss Fortune, a squishy champion with few escapes (Marksman role).
Counter picks are Analysis: rules over Riot's ability text, each with the words it rests on. They are not win rates, and no League of Legends matchup list has been reviewed by hand yet.
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Measured numbers
Numbers published or counted by a named source. Each row names the source and the patch.
| Stat | Level 1 | Per level | Level 18 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health | 620 | +105 | 2405 |
| Mana | 300 | +60 | 1320 |
| Armor | 33 | +4.7 | 112.9 |
| Magic resist | 32 | +2.05 | 66.85 |
| Attack damage | 66 | - | 66 |
| Attack speed | 0.69 | +3.2% | 1.065 |
| Attack range | 150 | - | 150 |
| Move speed | 345 | - | 345 |
| Health regen per 5 seconds | 8.5 | +0.55 | 17.85 |
| Mana regen per 5 seconds | 8 | +0.7 | 19.9 |
Riot data Riot's Data Dragon, patch 16.21.1. Level 18 is calculated from Riot's growth formula on the same numbers.
Editorial estimates
Our reading of the data. These are not measured rates and they change when the rules or the data change.
- Counter picks
- 6 Editorial estimateNexus Lab rules over Riot's ability text, patch 16.21.1
- Good against
- 5 Editorial estimateNexus Lab rules over Riot's ability text, patch 16.21.1
- Typical lanes
- Top, Jungle, Mid Editorial estimateLanes of the class; Riot ships no lane data per champion
- Best class (relative)
- Marksmen Editorial estimateWins minus losses over the class, compared with the other classes; counts of champions, patch 16.21.1
- Toughest class (relative)
- Tanks Editorial estimateWins minus losses over the class, compared with the other classes; counts of champions, patch 16.21.1
What no source gives us
- Win rate, pick rate and ban rate. Riot publishes none we may print (the Riot API cards are switched off) and no third-party statistics site is read, so none is shown.
- Popular builds. Riot publishes no builds: the items and runes in Build & Runes are a fit to the kit, not a popularity ranking.
Sources
- Riot Games Data DragonOpen
Names, ratings, base stats, ability text, cooldowns, costs, range, items, runes and art.
Patch 16.21.1, file generated 2026-10-26 - Riot ability preview clips
Played from Riot's own server when you press play; never copied here.
Each clip checked with a request before it is offered - League of Legends WikiOpen
Release dates and skin prices in RP (CC BY-SA).
Committed data, see the skins page - Nexus Lab rules
Counters, matchups by class, item and rune fit: rules over Riot's ability text, each with the words it rests on.
Patch 16.21.1 - Riot UniverseOpen
The official story of Fiora (a link, nothing copied).
