Fiddlesticks - Items

1flame149·Aug 22, 2014·1 votes·1,729 views

What builds does Fiddlesticks have? I only have used the recommended items so far. But are there some specifc item build paths anyone knows about?

2 Comments

SnugglyBunniesAug 22, 20141 votes

Hey, builds for every champ are available in lots of places on the internet. Mobafire, Lolking and Solomid are some good ones. I won't link them because you can just google any of those.

67chromeAug 22, 20141 votes

Zhonya's is pretty core on Fiddlesticks.

As far as builds - Fiddlesticks himself is a fairly flexible champion there, so you might want to look at some guides for him. Browze through 4~5 and see what general consensouses are made regarding what he needs, and you'll often get pretty in-depth explanations for those items.

As far as crafing builds goes though - the average game income per player is 11,000. set aside 1k for boots, and another 1k for starting items, potions, wards, and T3 boots and you're left with three 3,000 gold items. Early, middle, and late game can pretty much be broken up into your first, second, and third major item. If you're really ahead it's nice to know what other items do, but I've hardly ever found myself wanting to complete a 4th item in a set over simply building to react to the enemy team when I get that far. Anyways - my point here is don't get carried away with a full 6 item build (pretty useless), and be really careful about the order your 2~3 core items are picked up in. Also - don't plan on something like Rylie's + Torment synergy that's supper important for a build to be in a 3rd and 4th slot.

Concerning Fiddlesticks being fairly flexable:

With Zhonya's you can build glass-cannon and still make throwing yourself into the middle of an enemy team work out.
With Fiddlestick's absurd bases you can build full-tank and actually out-damage a solid number of glass-cannons, provided you hit the full duration and max bounces of his skills. Dark Wind, Drain, and Crowstorm seem to be balanced around the idea you'll only hit half of their damage on average.
With Fiddlestick's abusive fear duration, you can build crittlesticks and AD adventures things.
With Fiddlestick's abusive fear cooldown, you can build max CDR and be an enormous pain to everyone on the enemy team.
Fiddlestick's is also one of the select few ranged champions that's really solid at jungling

He's pretty flexable all things considered. Crittlesticks is a little troll but it has some potential: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTS75x5SR9A I'd suggest reading some guides to figure out how you want to play him, as well as doing some experimentation yourself. But really - his damage is pretty redonculous if you just land max duration everything. Katarina needs 4 re-sets to out-damage him in single target situations, and that's assuming the scarecrow only casts everything once - Drain has 100% up time if it isn't interrupted.