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Can we have Fiddle Mid back please.

DogboyWilson··4 votes·298 views

In the same patch that Fiddlesticks lost his 50% bonus damage to minions on his E - Dark Wind, everyone lost the 5 bonus damage when auto attacking a minion. With these changes Fiddlesticks is completely unable to match the waveclear of other midlaners. Before he was barely making do. with most Fiddlesticks mid players (myself included) having to rush to get a Protobelt or Luden's Echo to not get forced under tower where they have no chance of keeping a decent CS.

I don't think riot meant to make Fiddlesticks an unviable midlaner, as the Rioter who worked on these recent changes said that he/she would work to make sure he's still viable. The changes to minion aggro already made it hard for him to spam his E on people, so I don't think Middlesticks was something unhealthy either.(especially when there are other mages who will poke you way harder)

I'd really appreciate if Riot could give him his 50% bonus damage to minions back, or elaborate why they wanted to get rid of Middlesticks if that was their actual intention.

4 Comments

Telephone Booth1 votes

What were the changes to minion aggro?? Honestly curious, idk if I missed something.

DogboyWilson1 votes

Hitting a champion with a targeted ability makes their minions aggro to you like if you hit them with an auto attack. Before Fiddle could just throw his E directly on the enemy champion without worrying about minions. Now he has to throw it to a minion and hope it randomly bounces to the champion. There's a full list of the affected spells in the 8.2 patch notes in you're curious about what else draws aggro.

Telephone Booth1 votes

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Hitting a champion with a targeted ability makes their minions aggro to you like if you hit them with an auto attack. Before Fiddle could just throw his E directly on the enemy champion without worrying about minions. Now he has to throw it to a minion and hope it randomly bounces to the champion. There's a full list of the affected spells in the 8.2 patch notes in you're curious about what else draws aggro.

Ahh that's kinda what I thought. Played a teemo game last night and was wondering did his Q always draw aggro? Thanks

Nyxissa1 votes

I have to mostly agree. As someone who played a lot of mid Fid these changes were mostly a nerf overall... He got buffed vs multi monster camps, but he still has mana issues, and the buffs didn't make him better at taking Dragon or Baron.

The change to his E vs minions is more of a nerf to mid/late game as his "ok" wave clear is now pretty bad... His early is ok as you can poke more without hard pushing the lane, but Echo is needed to make up for his now worse late/mid game wave clear, and doesn't help him poke since most of the time hes first hitting a minion or tank.

As for the ult buffs they are ok, but you're slave to your Zonya's, especially late game so having a CD lower than your Hourglass is kinda meh, unless you have good cover.

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