It's time for a Fiddlesticks rework

MrLlamaWaffle·4/20/2016, 6:39:44 PM·8 votes·889 views

Every single change this season has pushed Fiddle further and further out of the game. He is extremely outdated. He's always had trouble competing with top tier junglers. The new items didn't do anything for him, he hasn't seen a buff in quite some time. Now with the enemy team having your buff timers no matter what, fiddle is even worse because he already is unbelievably easy to invade on.

Bad itemization Bad clear Mediocre ganks Too much power shoved into 2 abilities Almost zero dueling potential With the vision changes, pulling off a decent ult is difficult against decent players THE easiest jungler IN THE GAME to invade Unpredictable damage Almost no CC Too much displacement in the game for him to be effective

He clearly can't jungle this season. It's no surprise he did see some play as support some time ago, then got nerfed for it.

I was hoping Fiddle was getting some meaningful changes with the mage overhaul but alas, he got a meh new passive. Fiddlesticks is one of the game most fun and memorable characters, it's time to rework this champ.

12 Comments

CoolKnightST4/20/2016, 7:34:17 PM1 votes

He didn't recieve a lot of changes but the itematisation still helps him kinda. item 1402 is a pretty ok item on him and he also kinda benefits from the item 3157 changes. Even item 3001 is kinda ok on him.

Crossette4/20/2016, 8:00:15 PM1 votes

"most fun"

he's fucking bullshit is what he is

DiscipleOfRhys4/20/2016, 8:07:01 PM1 votes

My buddies and I actually had a discussion about this this morning. I used to main Fiddlesticks jungle, but there's really no point anymore. My friends and I agreed that Riot is keeping him low because of his kit. He has a fear, a silence, AND a drain. On any other champion, doesn't that sound a little strong? We also agreed that taking away the stacking silence was a bad plan, as that ability is fairly useless without it. In my opinion, lower the sky-high mana costs.

ViashinoWizard4/20/2016, 8:18:33 PM1 votes

Fiddle doesn't have a bad clear. The new passive actually makes it faster, since he can get between camps more quickly. Fiddle benefited hugely when they changed the AP enchantment from Runeglaive to Runic Echoes, and he also benefits from a cheaper Zhonya's with CDR. If you've read the Fiddlesticks thread on the PBE forums, you'd see the Rioter in charge of it has said repeatedly he'll get buffs if the changes end up reducing his power level.