Fiddlesticks Needs Buff

Pornstar·9/9/2015, 11:43:09 PM·8 votes·2,131 views

As a Fiddlesticks player, I feel that he's been over nerf. All he is good for is his ult and after that, he pretty much screw. There are a lot of champion that can counter Fiddlesticks, mostly tank and bruiser and even champion with extremely high mobility.

His Q terrify seem useless in both scenario:

  1. it loses kill potential, because it pushes the enemy champion away, while channeling his drain.

  2. As an escape, his Q terrify seem unsafe on a lot champion with high mobility and tank.
    Ex. Garen, Volibear, Udyr, Master Yi, Hecarim, Morgana and champion with gap closer, Lee Sin, Rengar, Rexsei etc.

Item and summoner skill cleanse pretty much counter his ability to engage and retreat, once his Q is on c/d, he is pretty much screw. He doesn't have other skill to escape, beside his ult and summoner skill flash.

His W drain seem very risky on champion that has knock back , which interrupt his channeling. On tank champion, it pretty much useless, because it only tickle them.

His E dark wind doesn't bounce as often as before and it doesn't do damage as it used to. There is no compensation, what so ever.

I feel with all these nerfs on Fiddlesticks, it makes him less enjoyable to play with. Fiddlesticks is a very squishy champion. ( High risk, less reward).

10 Comments

Rustling Bush9/9/2015, 11:45:11 PM3 votes

he should be reworked into a sustain ap tank.

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8492711/18/2015, 4:32:36 PM2 votes

Fiddle definitely needs a buff. Drain range is too short. Q is useless against tenacity. Ulti cd too long. His kit is very outdated against the new champs.

Tavish9/10/2015, 12:01:56 AM1 votes

I like Fiddlestick's kit, and the way he plays. I hope he just gets a buff.

Reformed Dunni9/10/2015, 12:15:01 AM1 votes

I have an Idea:

New (W)Drain- Fiddlesticks tethers himself to the target enemy and channels up for up to 5 seconds. While channeling Fiddlesticks gets to walk but is slowed
by 10% when draining. Fiddlesticks has a range indicator for his drain and if the target moves out of that range Fiddlesticks will stop channeling and gain his initial movement speed back.

So basically fiddle can move around while using his W but if your enemy gets out of range it is interrupted this will make item 3116 a core item on him I will give damage,Health, and stickiness which is what he needs.

What do you think?

Vesarixx9/12/2015, 7:28:13 AM1 votes

They should just change his E to work more like the new Ryze, take the RNG element out of it. He really doesn't need much to be good again, his kit has some great stuff in it, 2.5 seconds of hard CC on a single ability is pretty powerful.

Actually another thing that could be changed is that his passive could be made into a %MR shred instead of a flat reduction, which would make him able to deal with some of the tankier champions a bit better, and remain a relevant threat throughout the game.

RisenDarkKnight9/12/2015, 7:51:35 AM1 votes

IMO his main problem is none of the jungle items work on him. Without a jungle item, he has mana problems, can't clear very quickly, and gets less gold (the upgraded smites give you +30 gold per large monster kill). However if you buy a jungle item you are basically wasting all the gold because they are so unhelpful to him. Suppiddlesticks has been dead since the fear nerf and mid is only good against a very small number of champions (like vlad) so I think making another ap item that would work on him and karthus/other mages would be the way to go.

Mecha MaIphite9/9/2015, 11:44:39 PM1 votes

He needs a bit of a rework. Every time I play him, it feels like I'm playing a different game with much simpler mechanics. Even compared to other mechanically simple champions, he just feels really outdated.

Talkingllamagod3/2/2016, 1:27:59 AM1 votes

I LOVE fiddlesticks he is very easy to play and ez to jg even without any runes. He isgood early game but he can't snowball he starts to fall off mid/late game he can 1v1 certain champs bit he squishy so he can be taken out fast

What I want on him is a slight base health buff A slow added to his drain channel or at least a damage % reduction while channeling kinda like yi Have his ult have either a larger cast zone or a shorter channel time.......
His fear could have a slight increase cast radius but that be a little greedy

But if there was a rework give him a gap closer for better ganking Keep something with crows and his drain

Prospector Pete9/9/2015, 11:59:54 PM1 votes

Just make his fear into a charm. I mean, he's pretty handsome, right? Who doesn't want to be with the Harbinger of Doom?