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A single, simple change, that would make Fiddle a better champion.

Dianna Leveret·2/25/2017, 10:52:03 PM·1 votes·647 views

I love Fiddle, as support, mid or jungle. I can see why he is left at such a week state currently - he has a long fear and a very strong ult. Yet still, people don't play him. Sometimes he is even considered a troll pick.. Why would i pick fiddle to jungle with, when i can get Graves, Heca, Zac ( and almost any other ad jungler ). He is such a niche pick, which can only work in certain rare scenarios and vs certain champs ! But seeing how every new champ has some form of dash/flash/escape mechanism, it is an easy escape from the ult, unless Fiddle burns a summoner or waits for the right moment - which in SoloQ almost never comes. He is ultra strong game changer if he manages to catch all 5 ( or at least 4 )people in it AND make them stay in it - which is the tricky part. Without his ult he is extremely weak. Has a very hard time pre-6, free counter jungle, such hard ganks etc. He is not mobile. He has hard time dueling people and remaining relevant.

I suggest a single, simple change, which I believe would buff him, without OPing him, making him more viable. His W outside of his ult, is what makes Fiddle- Fiddle. Yet it feels so hard to play with it outside of clearing jungle camps. Go to fight someone press W and most of the times they will run away OR just kill you while channelling it. Why not make his W like a tether ability. Allowing him to move while channelling it ? I believe this small change would make his life so much easier without making him overbearing. Considering that if he uses Q or E, the channelling would stop anyways.. Everything in his kit requires certain things to happen - for example, you need 2 people to be close together to make full use of his E, otherwise it would hit them only once - which is like hitting them with cotton. His Q is also a bit random, because you cannot control which way the enemy would flee - so many times i press Q, yet they 'flee' on top of me, so I can't escape or fight back again. His ult i already explained is hard to pull off, his W is even harder, because the range is so small, the damage is not fast enough to do its job, so people simply walk out of it, then resume to kill you while it is on CD - fiddle's CD is also pretty high.

So yes, apart from total rework, I truly believe such a change would make him a bit more viable. Also I don't believe in changing numbers.. in my eyes it is never a good way to nerf or buff someone.

So TL:DR - I suggest allowing you to move while channelling W, only way to stop it is to press W again or use another ability. This way he will be more viable at 1v1 and ganking ( outside of ult ganks, which still is hard to pull off ). Thank you all for reading !

1 Comments

Jmman2/27/2017, 8:01:58 PM1 votes

There is a lot that was suggest to Rito but they never listened. Heck they tried to put the crows to bounce off you and enemies. But that was removed from the PBE QUICK.... How that didn't really make trials and EON got through should tell you everything you need to know about Rito and Fiddle. This comes from a ex-fiddle main. I say ex but he just can't be played in this Meta. Everyone has free MR. Clickies to stop spells and a spell shield just encase they are bad.

Now look at fiddles damage. He non-ult spells are Really hard to wave clear with. (use a lot of mana in respect to the damage they do.) He has a really slow auto attack with no real escape. Fear his only line of defense has been nerf into the ground. Since it doesn't stop animation its unless on certain champs.

He has to stand still to do damage and be close to the enemy. This is the META where everyone including takes has high damage and free shields.

He can't compete with the newer champs that have everything with mobile in there kits. Almost all of the high played champs have mobile and damage. See you can't give those two things together or they will playout everyone. Not the players the champs.

edit: notice there are a few champs that are really bad at the moment with dedicated player bases. (fiddle Atrox, etc) Instead of fixing these to continued to rework ryze for the 800 time and reworking jungle for the set few lcs champs, or buffing adc items that really didn't need buffed. Yes they are going to rework him but like most reworks he will be worst. Notice the reworks aren't like the new champs with everything in there kits (no counting WW). I just so tilted at Rito I don't know why I'm on the boards or play. Why are they buffing riven, zed, etc these guys have been good forever..... why can't the weak just get buff to compete..... I wish they never hired ghostcrawer. 2nd game I loved he ruined.