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I Think It's Time We Put Down Fiddlesticks

Support Boyyy·2/11/2018, 9:44:47 PM·2 votes·401 views

I myself have nothing against this champion, it's just that he's pretty fucking worthless. Like, no matter what role or what build, it never works never works for Fiddles anymore. My friend has mastery 7 with Fiddlesticks but doesn't even touch the champion anymore, and Fiddles is his all time favorite champion, the very first one he mained and played seriously. With Fiddles kit, in my opinion, there is really no way to balance it without it coming out as to overpowered or still just staying useless, unless Riot decides to completely rework and turn him into a completely new champion in all but name. I could go and on about how bad he is, but I'm to lazy for that and that would to long, plus I'm sure anybody who's been playing for more than at least a few moths is aware of how bad he is. Not to mention within the League Universe he doesn't really bring anything to the table, he just kinda exists.

Maybe it's just time they retire Fiddlesticks. They could even make a game mode for his last week in the game where everybody plays as Fiddlesticks at max stats.

5 Comments

L Psy Kongroo2/12/2018, 12:52:09 AM2 votes

Fiddle is bad for a lot of reasons, many of which require a full VGU to fix. Part of it is that he doesn't fit well into this meta, but that's been the case for a while now, and will continue to be the case as long as damage creep is a thing.

His current kit just isn't compatible with how the game is played right now: either 100-0 your enemy, or get 100-0'd yourself. Fiddle can't do that fast enough to succeed because all of his damage abilities require multiple ticks to reach their maximum capacity.

Drain deals its damage over 5 seconds, and requires Fiddle to immobilize himself. Dark Wind is a bouncing ability, and the time between bounces ends up being too long unless 2 isolated targets are side by side for the entire duration. And his ult does damage over time, albeit a large amount, but each individual tick of damage is rather small in comparison to other ultimate abilities which deal their full damage instantly (think of Viktor ult, Ziggs ult, Annie ult, Ori ult, etc.).

He's far too unreliable in what he does, especially when you consider that something as simple as having good vision completely nullifies his biggest strength.

Laustin Space2/11/2018, 9:56:23 PM1 votes

The main problem with Fiddle is that you have to put in far more effort for a lot less reward than any meta mid/jungle/support.

JustMonika132/11/2018, 10:00:20 PM1 votes

I have everything against this champion. I like playing mobile aggressive melees. Fiddle is fucking Fiddle and denied all three of those.

That being said, I don’t agree with you. There are bastards out there that like playing him.

ZapMyHeart2/11/2018, 11:25:23 PM1 votes

I think a lot of it has to do with him getting pulled in 2 directions. At one point, his W forces him to be a stationary drain tank, but on the other hand, his ult wants him to continue chasing after the enemies.

TheProfezzor2/12/2018, 1:55:31 AM1 votes

How or why would you retire a champion? Either rework him or let him continue to be garbage. I agree with you he is trash though.