FiddleSticks short story inspired me to come up with some gameplay ideas
SPOILERS FROM "TO OUR END" PLEASE READ THAT FIRST IF YOU HAVENT CAUSE ITS DAM GOOD STUFF
Dear Riot So today I read Fiddlesticks' story "To Our End" and was blown away. It truly gave a layer of depth to the character as LoL's very own Horror movie monster like character the way he chased Niram down with "unnatural speed" at the end and I really like that. I also stumbled upon the test buff on pbe that lets fiddles' Dark Wind bounce to himself if no other targets are available so both of these together inspired the game designer in me to try and think of how to capture this unnaturally fast monster of terror and I came up with something I think is worth sharing.
What if when Dark Wind bounced off of Fiddle he was granted some degree of his Dread passive? this gives his passive a bit more depth in to how you can use and feel it during fights allowing fiddle to reposition in a 1v1 fight with the opposing jungle to either reposition in a better place , runaway, or my favorite chase them down because they dared cross your Field jungle .
you could also go further and let Terrify also grant you some degree of dread.
I also thought it would be nice if fiddle could actually cut someone with his scythe if he was in close range to slow their move speed like when he cut Nirams legs at the end of "To Our End", because Fiddle is your one of your cool scythe wielders yet you cant really reap people with it.
of course balance comes first but I would totally play
more if this level of interaction was in his kit even if he did lose a little straight up damage for it, I enjoy a good fiddle jungle or fiddle sup every now and then and the pbe buff will likely make me take him mid or top for a spin as well.
thanks for your time if you read this, sincerely , TheImpLord.