Analysis of New Fiddle Passive

Crono451·4/20/2016, 12:13:51 AM·4 votes·1,473 views

I understand what was the thought behind fiddle's new passive, but I think they completely missed the mark on his new passive. My guess is the thoughts behind this change where finding a way for Fiddlesticks to catch people with a fear after a drain, or after standing in a bust and more so to get fiddlesticks in range after casting crowstorm. These seem like good ideas but in reality this new passive hurts fiddle a lot more than you may think. Fiddlesticks current form of dread lowers resistances by 10 after casting an ability on an enemy. This is often seen as problematic because early on that 10 lower magic resistance doesn't help fiddle in the jungle and late game doesn't offer much to his team. where this current passive has it's advantage is in lane, as either support or mid(rare). Again though as a game progresses this passive falls off greatly. Overall this passive helps Fiddle's overall damage output which is pretty poor to begin with. This new passive once again has little to no use in the jungle while also lacking the early power the current passive has. In late game this new passive is useless because a fiddle will have the tools to help crowstorm engage(flash, Frostqueens, rylais, new ap dash item) Riot has effectively found a way to nerf Fiddlesticks once again, while thinking they were helping him (the story of Fiddle). I'm not sure what his passive should be exactly, but i believe it needs to fit his theme of fear. perhaps a passive that grants an additional shorter .5 second fear after a certain amount of abilities cast. imagine casting 4 abilities and the 5th grants that ability a fear, now imagine that ability is crowstorm. You have now given the engage to fiddle that is meaningful but not reliable, useful in the jungle, helpful in ganks and 1v1 situations, while preserving his Q fear as a more reliable longer lasting form of CC.

8 Comments

PDE5 Inhib4/20/2016, 12:19:27 AM1 votes

They don't like Fiddles very much.

Shadowkirby144/20/2016, 12:30:50 AM1 votes

Not only that, there's no reason for his new passive to be called Dread anymore! If he stands still and just earns movement speed, then what's the point of calling it Dread?

I feel like it would've been better if it was a passive for his Ultimate than his primary passive, and yeah, I'm pissed that they nerfed Fiddlesticks again... AGAIN!!

I've managed to create a passive that can work with his kit and his jungle role in my rework concept.

Disen4/20/2016, 12:45:34 AM1 votes

It really is a wait and see situation for me. It's hard to tell how much that passive actually did. The change to dark wind (two extra bounces) is pretty huge for clearing lanes and jungle.. and for those rare two champion tags. The drain change is pretty neutral. And the passive I think will also improve has ganking ability and jungle clear time. I'm cautiously optimistic.

Derpy Mike4/20/2016, 12:49:03 AM1 votes

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Fiddle is definitely aimed at primarily Jungle

Makes his new passive useless for jungling.

Classic Riot. Like, unless you're sitting in a bush about to invade the enemy, this passive is basically useless outside of ganking/laning.

Crono4514/20/2016, 12:58:16 AM1 votes

I'd also like to know how fiddle will do damage now that he can no longer chain drain...