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@Riot - Fiddlesticks Dev Blog - Not a fan of the chest demon.

Oleandervine·1/14/2020, 5:33:41 PM·4 votes·1,964 views

I'm fine with Fiddlesticks being a demon. I'm even fine with him being an unknown effigy in terms of how he relates to whatever horrors control him, if something does. I'm even fine with him being actively possessed.

What I'm not a fan of is the arms in his chest taking directive and priority over a lot of his actions like his running animation and his auto-attacks. That detracts heavily from Fiddlesticks as a scary scarecrow, and shifts him towards being little more than a demonic Gundam. Adding this other "body" that is so pervasive in how Fiddlesticks is animated just pulls too much away from his core design, and makes the scarecrow body start to feel added on, instead of the focus as it should be. Fiddlesticks is the scarecrow, one way or the other, and having the arms pop out so constantly doesn't make the scarecrow feel sufficiently incorporated into who he's supposed to be.

Plus, it feels like a bit of a copy of Senna's specters also reach and grab constantly with arms.

12 Comments

Mogarl1/14/2020, 6:27:51 PM3 votes

The run is described specifically as "Scarier Run Animation" I assume it's only going to occur when he's ulting or when some other requirement is met, similar to Tahm's hungry run. The animaation shown above that one is his "normal" run.

The AAs I sort of agree. I suspect that they did the demon arms for Fiddle's AAs because they backed themselves into a corner with the length of his arms. That said I still don't think it's a big deal since Fiddle doesn't really AA a lot, so you're typically only going to see his demon arm AAs when you're killing something.

Arakadia1/14/2020, 6:16:14 PM3 votes

Yeah tbh I was surprised they used it for his auto attacks. The arms should be a rare occasion, like they said when he is super blood thirsty and not just any time he attacks a minion.

Ehhhh1/14/2020, 5:38:29 PM3 votes

Well he literally is a demon though

World King1/14/2020, 6:18:00 PM2 votes

Youre not happy with a VGU/lore change? Im shocked.

Zombie Slayer1/14/2020, 10:39:13 PM1 votes

As long as he uses it for atleast some abilities Im fine with the ranged autos from the demon. The demon in the cage is a pretty cool idea but it shouldnt be the thing that completely does everything or else it doesnt feel like fiddle to a point

Camille Ferrøs1/14/2020, 6:51:38 PM1 votes

I do understand where you are coming from. I believe they simply walked away from the spooky scarecrow idea since it would be kinda a waste to have just a well made modernized scarecrow with a scythe. It wouldn't be as interesting as other modern champions. Since they decided to go with the scary theme instead of the silly spooky one it was obvious that he was in it for a heavy change. And I think they even said that the scarecrow the object is more like the home/host of the entity which is inside it instead of Fiddle being the scarecrow. I do not understand why they made him mechanical instead of sticks...

mrmeddyman1/14/2020, 9:31:57 PM1 votes

I really dig the chest demon