Let's make this clear: The Fiddlesticks buffs on the PBE are not enough to bring him back

THE RlVER KlNG··6 votes·887 views

A small increase to his E damage versus non-champions and a revert of a nerf he should never have gotten is not enough to pull him from the grave. FIddlesticks is beyond bad as a jungler, wildly out of meta, and cannot hope to compete versus anything meta, or even B or C tier junglers because of how much he is punished by the new jungle and how hard his itemization and play patterns have been gutted. Damage has shot through the roof and the squishy, immobile, mana-hungry mage who half the time has to stand still in the middle of the enemy team to do anything needs massive changes and buffs to get him back into meta.

Arguably at this point his support role is better than his jungle, and let's be honest, it's still C or D-tier at best. It's sad to see many champions be allowed to just exist in a blatantly overpowered state for so long but nothing is done about the flat-out garbage state Fiddles has been in ever since he got castrated after the MYMU. His extreme overreliance on Zhonya's, which is basically nerfed more and more with each successive season, is also a huge problem.

Fiddles is in desperate need of a Shyv/Aatrox level rework that not only straight buffs him but gives him more tools to survive in this meta as well as ways to play around his glaring and crippling weaknesses.

6 Comments

Big Lincoln4 votes

I think they should encourage Fiddles to opt into tankier itemization like Galio does now with AP bruiser builds. IMO that would be the best option for him.

There's no feasible way to balance a glass cannon mage whose purpose is to suicide-bomb the enemy team and hope he can press Zhonya's before he eats a stun and gets exploded.

also make his W jump to a new monster if the first target dies, so that he can actually sustain decently vs the raptor camps

Ok sure but why2 votes

I think Riot should stop encouraging literally everyone to go tanky

Big Lincoln3 votes

glass cannons only work if there's some degree of safety

fiddle does not have that

Ok sure but why1 votes

Fiddle should take reduced damage from those he drains

that's literally an easy first step

Ralanr1 votes

Putting damage reduction on squishies is fun. Right PD?

Thistlemin1 votes

A simple fix would help him immensely. Give his ultimate a 1 second silence aoe to all in it's landing area. That way he could actually risk getting off one or two of his other skills besides Zhonya's before getting blown up.

Right now it's ult and zhonya's immediately if there is any real cc and you're going landing into a team fight 1st or 2nd. I like his kit. There isn't much else in the game that resembles his full kit. His E silence ability is an unsung hero in a lot of fights.

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