While I’m not a fiora main and I would recommend asking fiora mains about this more specifically, what I’ve researched and tried and tested, she is extremely vulnerable to stacking waves during laning phase. As for mid to late game, the answer is in her kit itself. Her kit is a perfect duelist kit. If a fiora has hands, she can probably 1v1 you, if she has good hands, she’ll destroy you. Answer you ask? Maybe try not 1v1ing? Duh? The champ is annoying no doubt, but as you very well know, she has no teamfighting capabilities. That alone means that a 1v2 or 1v3 means imminent threat. Doing that a few times and she’ll be behind the whole game.

Tryndamere’s kit is just … No words for that guy. If you throw in the laning phase, then that’s on you. These champs are annoying in laning phase, as long as you don’t throw, they become useless without leads later on when team starts grouping during mid game. Kite, bait R, kill and repeat.

Regarding Yorick, he used to be my main. There’s just so many counters that naming them here will just make this a 1000 words paragraph. Guy just loses to almost any top laner these days. Ever see a Yorick? Pick Irelia, or if you’re into less skilled champs, tryndamere. Your welcome.

I totally agree with the fact that communication getting removed is the most backward change riot has ever done. However, if you look back carefully to any season, it has always been the game where a single person or two players decisions have carried the whole game.

While yes, that’s not how the game was supposed to be played, it is the reality we’ve been living in since the start, so there’s nothing we can do about that. Ask any GM or challenger person, they’ll give you the same advice, “you have to carry the game yourself”. You have to be assertive, doing shot calls and stuff. You have to lead.

Now that’s not possible on any champ or any role and that’s also part of the game and climbing. One tricking is fun and can do wonders but at some point even then you’ll have to swap and look for something new once in a while.

Gotta figure out what works.

I see where you’re coming from. Used to think the same way when I was in Bronze elo. Tried these champs in that elo as well and had great success winning in that elo.

Here’s the truth: These champions fall off quickly as you climb elo. Guess why? Because these champs abuse the unawareness of enemy team and their low macro knowledge and capitalise on that. This makes it so that they get huge leads in low elo and become almost like an unstoppable force to be beckoned with.

The reason why Sion got nerfed was not because of the fact that he split pushed (he still does it a lot these days), he got nerfed because of how he did it. He used to just int and still take your tower. If you inted long enough, you’d win the game. That was unhealthy, not the split pushing part.

Most other champs like fiora, trynda, yorick etc have significant weaknesses that are exploited in high elo and hence they’re not considered anywhere near as strong as you think they are.

The solution is simple, you need to learn better macro yourself. And it’s not just macro, if you’re a good player, you can just kite these champs so easily as well.

These champs represent a unique playstyle in a game. What you think of team fighting and grouping is definitely a widely enjoyed playstyle, but that doesn’t mean other playstyles shouldn’t exist. That is the equivalent of saying that minorities shouldn’t exist.