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Fiddle sticks nerfed again but this time way to much

SwiftyNyce·12/11/2014, 2:35:36 AM·8 votes·2,302 views

His passive nerf was not really needed but if you think then what ever shows your intelligence. But his E omg what is with that nerf. Like yeah you added the length of time for the silence. Which is 1.25 that is not much of a buff when they can't be silenced again. So from a chance of a 2 maybe 3 second silence u nerfed it down to 1.25 seconds. But then you added a new mechanic to the E. His E will now priorities new targets. Seriously?!?! This is extremely bad in so many way. Heck the way his E worked is why I use to lane with fid and making it my main mid.

And for those who be like who the hell mid lane fid. I do a master tier player. http://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=swiftynyce

Regardless of all the nerfs this one is a very hard hit every other nerf I was ok with except for when his fear was accidentally made into terror. You might as well now just rework fiddles if you are constantly going to make him extremely weak. While there is champions like Syndra, lucian, maokia, zed for example who has a crazy kit making them wreck anything in their path. Oh but fiddle extremely squishy, no escape and clunky kite its too strong -.-... eh w.e

Just rework fiddles bc hes becoming shit.

28 Comments

Learn 2 Swim12/11/2014, 6:03:22 AM6 votes

meanwhile lee sin still #1 and left untouched after 12 junglers nerfed in a month

aLawfulFalafel12/11/2014, 5:26:42 AM5 votes

silencing a champ only once per cast just makes sense, but prioritizing new over old champs makes no sense at all

annies retreating, cast E on her, it hits her once and refuses to go back getting stuck in minions and making sure i dont secure my kill whereas old way was cast E, crow goes to annie then minions, /me prays for crow to bounce back to annie 50/50 chance it does, when it does n i get the kill i get super happy and jump out of chair XD

as someone who hates facing a fidd i understand the need for a nerff but this seems excessive, shorten or even get rid of silence after first bounce idc, but dont make my crow do the OPPOSITE of what i want, the point of the crow is that hes MY buddy, he does what I WANT HIM TO DO, so if i cast on champ then try to prioritize THAT champ or champs in general but if cast on minions the just bounce around randomly

thats my 2 cents

Corvidophobia12/11/2014, 3:38:34 AM3 votes

I have to agree with this, i've mained Fiddlesticks for well over a year now, both in and out of lane. The nerf to his passive is understandable, and honestly isn't much of a nerf once you get to teamfights and have Crowstorm available, but the nerf to Dark Wind greatly reduced his damage, farming ability in lane, and clear time for jungle camps (which in my opinion, was already somewhat slow due to Drain being a DoT spell). Personally, i feel this nerf was just a helping hand for anyone that didn't want to build Tenacity or a QSS when necessary in matches while lowering the damage output of an already vulnerable mage. That being said, i will admit that being able to Silence an opponent for nearly 4 seconds is rather crazy. Let's just be honest here though, is it too much to ask to give the Scarecrow some love? He's gotten so much hate in the past year, and he's going to be deemed as useless soon enough if the nerfs keep coming like this.

GSNightfall12/22/2014, 3:44:12 AM2 votes

At this point, hes better off being reworked, riot literally killed him. For one thing, fiddle was never broken, like stated several times; he's squishy, he's slow, he's ult REQUIRES him to literally nose dive into the center of the enemy team or atleast the carries. And nerfing hes e to "prioritize targets it has not hit." Wut? Why not just remove it all together. Remove the silence if its the cause of the problem, but I rather have the chance deal damage vs the have the crow hit 1 person and bounce between 4 minions. Heres to hoping they bring fiddles back. He was a fun champ, and took time to learn to use and he requires a team. He doesnt really on hes auto's so drain is the only move he has to save him and it can be stopped with any form of cc.

Hayaishi12/11/2014, 3:39:38 AM2 votes

He was free elo last season, something had to be done.

Quepha12/11/2014, 5:07:37 AM2 votes

oh no now the bird is pretty much guaranteed to silence the entire enemy team how ever will fiddlesticks survive

Kroda1312/11/2014, 1:51:57 PM2 votes

"those who be like"

can't take this seriously

SexyTaylorSwift12/13/2014, 3:02:35 AM2 votes

Exactly what I said. It is bullshit. I don't know if you noticed, but E damage is also reduced. Why? Because his passive only works after they take damage from you. I can't even clear a 3 caster minion wave at lower levels anymore because 2 E bounces doesn't kill a fucking caster minion anymore. I used to love lane Fiddles, got me to gold lol. Now, he feels really underpowered, especially against the mages mid that are so much stronger. I think his E was nerfed because of supportsticks, but ever since his fear got nerfed twice, nobody even plays that anymore. Riot is really fucking stupid with this one. Probably happened because that maximum lee sin dude literally spammed the boards with Fiddles OP threads.

I really wish they would rework Fiddles. He used to be a CC monster that was squishy and couldn't burst because he had DoT. Now, he is a squishy champ that still only does DoT, but no where near as much CC. I mean, with only merc boots, Fiddles fear is less than 1.5 seconds and his silence is like 0.8. What the actual fuck rito?

BeatzBoyFTW12/11/2014, 5:32:38 AM1 votes

I never saw a single mid lane Fiddlestick until the patch 4.21 comes up, so what's the point of complaining?

DWT1234512/11/2014, 4:53:15 AM1 votes

if nautalis can be that bad, than so can fiddles