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Will new Fiddlesticks be a Catcher/Battle-Mage?

Hemulen Magi·1/15/2020, 3:24:44 AM·1 votes·2,178 views

I am looking forward to the Fiddlesticks rework and really like the art direction he has been taken in. What is most important to me, though, is whether he will have an equal or greater amount of utility compared to current Fiddlesticks. I enjoy playing him as both a support and jungler and I consider his playstyle to be a Catcher/Battle-Mage due to his strong CC (fear + silence + crows re-procing item 3116) combined with AOE DOT and sustain. I've lost a lot of champions of my most played champions over the years from reworks alienating them from the roles I played them in. It would help put my mind at ease if someone could confirm that Fiddlesticks' new kit attempts to keep him playable as support/jungle with utility focused builds remaining an option or even being more encouraged. I would be very sad if his power budget was pushed into full damage to turn him into some sort of ambush burst AOE assassin.

If he needs to give up any particular power in his rework to fit new strengths into his power budget, I hope he gets pushed even further from being a burst champion in favor of DOT or more utility. I wouldn't mind him getting counterplay to his E poke as well, since I realize that it can currently be very frustrating for laning opponents. Reducing his damage to champions wouldn't necessarily need to reduce his jungle clear speeds either, since he could receive bonus damage to monsters somewhere in his kit.

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Brutalitops011/15/2020, 3:35:48 AM1 votes

I believe they said that they were designing him more for support than jungler, but he will be a very ambush-heavy champion, with Crowstorm being emphasized as the core ability in his kit. They have also said that they're keeping his point-and-click fear. As for other abilities/gameplay design, we have no confirmation yet, however it seems very likely that they will be implementing heavy amounts of mind-games into his kit. Judging by how they say that he will "make opponents question what is real and what is just a horrifying effigy," I would guess that he's going to have some mechanic in his kit similar to old Leblanc ult before the revert, where she could press it twice to create a copy of herself anywhere on the map that would walk to the nearest enemy and cast a harmless version of her most recently cast spell. More than likely, it'll be a passive portion of his kit that creates fake Fiddlestickses all over the map, possibly that move, though I don't think this is likely, designed to scare opponents into thinking that he's there when he's in fact elsewhere.

Caretaker Jack1/15/2020, 3:55:03 AM1 votes

Please. No more battle mages. The concept shouldn't exist. It's broken.