The state of Fiddlesticks

Before anyone asks, yes my main is Fiddlesticks. Does that make me biased, yes. However, playing thousands of games with him over the last few years, i am one of few that actually feel the small changes on him on a daily basis.

Fiddle is one of the more polarized champions in LoL. His strengths are powerful, and his weaknesses something that punish you heavily if you take them into concideration. This is a fact, and is why Riot themselves have maxed the "difficulty bar" in their champ information screen. He is hard to play, and you need to think to be able to excel with him, however, the reward when you make a triple kill by enemies whacking at your mid tower is priceless.

Now, during the last year, one and a half years or so, Fiddle has been the victim of almost a dozen various nerfs. Patch 3.15 - Heavy nerf on Q - FEAR, reducing length. Patch 4.21 Silence version of E got a heavy nerf. Season5: His W max range got severly guttet. Season 4: Changes on jungle items, relying on AA for profits made his early game harder. Then, you introduced gold bonuses when having the machete, making it impossible to NOT choose it as a starting item. Then you introduce a jungle item that acutally makes sense to have (magus), just to replace it with such a bad item for him it gives the player physical pain just to being forced buying the jungle item cause of its gold income.

The worst of it all, is the attitude you serve. "Yeah we know it hurts you fiddleplayers, but youre gonna have to live with it". More or less that was said in the patch notes.

So in a years time, you have nerfed his Q, his W and his E, in addition to making him start behind everyeone else, being forced to buy an item he cannot utilize. This makes an already difficult champion like Fiddle so hard to play, its almost not worth it. Fiddle is by far the weakest duelist out there atm, even though he is an easy guy to clear the jungle with. So the few strengths he had, has been diminishing so quickly the last year, there are almost none left. However, his weaknesses are as stong as ever.

Riot, you claim your philosophy is to high risk, high reward. Well, tell you what. Engaging Fiddle today, is no risk at all for the other player. Fiddle has no mobility, no real strenght early game and are in gold deficit compared to everyone else cause of the items he cant utilize properly.

His ultimate is the one thing that makes him dangerous, and even now, with all the mobility on all other champs, his reduced ranges, CC-length and silence makes it too difficult to make a kill compared to his weaknesses. Fiddlesticks are inches from being trash tier, and mostly will be if you dont have vast amounts of experience with him, like myself.

Too see you buffing one of the most powerful, mobile junglers in the game, Lee Sin, makes me wonder where your thoughts are at. Lee Sin has NO APPARENT WEAKNESSES and gets buffed. Fiddlesticks has a ton of them, and dosent get any attention rather than the nerfs.

Something must be done!

My personal propsals are (make one or more.. not all)

• W Drain - doest not get interrupted with soft CC and minor knockbacks (diana E)
• W Drain - Fiddle can move around at reduced speed and AA without interrupting drain.
• Q Fear - If not targeting a champion, it will automaticly target the closest champion.
• Interrupting R crowstorm will set the ult on reduced CD. 15 secs.
• Upon landing Crowstorm, Fiddle gets a small movement speed buff for the duration of the spell.
• Passive gets changed to: "Enemies affected by spells or autoattacks get a stack of dread. Each stack of dread reduces the magic resist by 5. At five stacks of dread, the victim suffers a slow, and takes 10% more damage from Fiddles abilities". (A stack can be gained each 0.5 seconds with DoT spells.) (A player can not be affected more than one time within 30 seconds)

Give us something to make Fiddle a terrifying creature again.. cause right now he is as scary as Annies teddybear at lvls 1-5. Red response on this are highyl appreciated.