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Season 12 - Predator Fiddlesticks

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Runes: Predator

Domination

Predator

Cheap Shot

Zombie Ward

Ultimate Hunter

Inspiration

Future's Market

Cosmic Insight

Bonus:

+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+6 Armor

Spells:

Only

Chilling Smite

Flash

Items

Start

First back

Mythics

Key Items

Example of Full Build

Situational Defence

Situational Offence

Ability Order Only

Fiddlesticks Passive Ability

Threats & Synergies

Threats

Synergies

Extreme Major Even Minor Tiny

Show All

None Low Ok Strong Ideal

Extreme Threats

Ideal Synergies

Evelynn

Extreme

Good 1v1 for her, can burst you so be careful, camouflage allows her to scout for you, disabling you for team fights and ganks. Very annoying, good ban.

Diana

Ideal

Diana is one of the best Midlanders to pair with Fiddlesticks. Her ult sucks their team in allowing you to follow up with an easy 5 man fear (with R). This combo will almost win you any teamfight

Synergies

Ideal Strong Ok Low None

Diana

Ideal

Diana is one of the best Midlanders to pair with Fiddlesticks. Her ult sucks their team in allowing you to follow up with an easy 5 man fear (with R). This combo will almost win you any teamfight

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Champion Build Guide

Table of Contents

Guide Details

x Intro
x Me, as a player
x Quick Information

Champion

x Pros / Cons
x Fiddlesticks and Abilities
x Tips & Tricks

Pre-Game

x Runes and Summs
x Mental
x Team Comp

In-Game

x Items
x Strategy
x Gameplay

GUIDE DETAILS

Good day fellow reader!

Hello! I am a main playing on OCE and my Rank is a remarkable Bronze 1 (I know amazing!). I like to play really random champs that have no connection between each other but has stuck with me the most.

Out of all junglers to main, I chose because of his rework mainly, due to his updated visuals which I find look insane and in-game experience. He also is very well designed with as many flaws as strengths, but with the right playstyle and build and runes, we can counteract most of the weaknesses.

I also like how he plays Early to Mid game, as how ganking with early requires lots of Macro and his Ultimate has so much impact and presence, and rightly, as has some of the highest damage output in the game.

I am obviously not the best and no way a pro. But I am confident I can give a start to anyone who wants to pick up .

PRE-GAME

SUMMONER SPELLS
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FLASH: Must take, it is used both defensively and offensively. A defensive example is like escaping a 1v1 by flashing over walls and flashing away, an offensive use include flashing during ult to chase and reside on top of people.

SMITE: Must take for any jungler, I'm pretty sure i don't need to explain this, but it provides sustain in the jungle and helps with clear speed. It also evolves with items into either Chilling smite (we are taking this) or Challenging smite (not that good on fiddle) to provide combat bonuses.

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RUNES

DOMINATION

Predator is the best option for because the synergy with his immobility and his inability to chase. The increased move speed chasing a target goes so well when ganking early as a gap closer. In addition to this, the bonus damage is really helpful for finishing which otherwise you would have not gotten the kill. Other options include for better late game and for more burst.

The best option here is probably due to synergy with amount of CC in his kit, allowing to constantly proc the extra damage. isn't really good as he isn't engaging in many trades as he is in the jungle most of the time and the minuscule heal is pretty irrelevant to the bonus damage granted both from and , but doesn't provide much more damage than as provides CC when in fog of war, proc'ing the bonus damage from .

wins out here as you get so much value from passive wards that are lower on cooldown, and act as an oracle lense past lvl 6, so stacking the adaptive bonus is easier than getting unique takedowns from at higher ranks. If you are finding more success in your games, is pretty much the same or better, as you are getting more takedowns.

provides extra cooldown so it's a must take, beats out as more s lead to more ganks and teamfights.

is a Mage jungler, so adaptive force is best here. But for the third option, armour is my go to as many junglers are AD, but against AP junglers like Evelynn, take MR.

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INSPIRATION

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best secondary rune tree is definantly as many of the runes circumvent many of early and mid-game weaknesses. This is way better than the smaller (in comparison overall) buffs you get from the tree which don't really benefit much.

future's market

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is a very important rune here as this allows to get tier 2 right after his first full clear, around 3-4 min into a game. This sets up for the early to mid-game as the with allow to set up ganks much easier without his , giving him the needed early lead. It also helps benefit traverse the map, as he is generally very immobile.

cosmic insight

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is ABSOLUTELY VITAL to gameplan, as it allows for his item CD and summoner spells to be available more constantly. The CDR from help allow to be up more often allowing for the needed safety and overall better gameplay. The added bonus of summoner spell cooldown is really nice as you will have and up much more often.

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MENTAL AND TEAM COMP

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Wall of text but yeah.

When it comes to any pvp game, CSGO, League of Legends, Apex Legends, etc. Mental is an important criterion any player needs to do well. Especially in this game, people can be toxic, so having the right mental is going to help the most. This not only applies to but to the game in general.

GOOD MENTAL

+ Less Tilt = Less inting
+ Team morale = Better atmosphere, sometimes less toxic
+ Better gameplay and player experience
+ Better preformance
+ Better mood
+ Tolerence to Toxicity and tilt

So how do we get good Mental?

Getting good mental is difficult, to be honest. It involves accepting if something happens, regardless if it is in or out of your control. It also involves understanding this is a game, and understanding if you are being a bit too mad at someone calling you a brain dead clown fiesta. A good first step can be taking a deep breath or take a nice long drink of some liquid and calm the f*** down, its a game. Because its a game, get back to it. Next this is to straight-up turn off /all chat and muting your teammates.

BAD MENTAL

- Easily tilted = Inting
- Toxic, leads to throw
- Bad moral, causes teamwork to be thrown out the window
- Straight up not fun
- Bad mood
- Loose more

What are some ways to deal with toxicity?

As I mentioned in how to get good Mental, a good way to deal with toxicity is just to mute your teammates and disable /all chat as /all chat is really just for talking s*** about the other team. Otherwise, just report them.

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TEAM COMP

Honestly, kinda goes well in almost any team comp, as he is very versatile and provides a kit full of CC, which any comp likes, and an a massive disruptive ult that does massive damage.

The only exception to this is if your team already has an AP heavy comp, then I advise switching to an AD champ, because it would become too easy to build against.

PROS AND CONS

PROS AND CONS

PROS

+ Stupid high DPS w/
+ Lots of CC
+ Some of the fastest and healthy clears in the game
+ Has both ward and oracle lens that can act as a dummy
+ Extermely impactful and disruptive teamfight potential
+ Defined Powerspikes
+ Amazing visual and feel

just feels good to play once you get him down. He is very rewarding and rewards you for playing jungle well, he also teaches you map awareness and matchups, and forces you to pick your fights and not brain dead running into any fight. He also has such a large map presence that many players play safe just by you existing. His teamfight potential is huge as his provides so much disruption and damage that can turn the tide of the fight. His fast clears and passive also allow him to learn how to clear wards and patrol the jungle.

CONS

- Vunerable if locked down/flanked
- Can be warded out
- Weak early game
- Bad 1v1 and general matchups
- Immobile
- Easy to be bullied
- Low DPS (without )

abundance of bad matchups is annoying but it is to balance out his teamfight potential and map presence. To deal with his high damage output from and , riot balanced by his immobility and ease to lockdown. This forces the player to be smart with positioning which is key to climbing and helps develop gamesense and Macro. Also to balance out his strong late-game, he has a weak early game (before level 6) and can be easily bullied, but taking allows to alleviate the weak early game.

CHAMPION INFO

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FIDDLESTICKS AND ABILITIES

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Ability Order

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*NOTE - I like to take a second point in Bountiful Harvest as it provides more damage and lower cooldown early on for a better and safer clear over a point in Terrify, as you won't be using its active often early on as you will not be having many confrontations at below lvl 4.
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Ability Description

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| Passive | A Harmless Scarecrow | Range: 900 | Cooldown: 90 | Cost: N/A |
INNATE - SCARECROW EFFIGY: begins the game with an exclusive , which permanently occupies the trinket slot. can pretend to be an Effigy by standing still and not acting nor being acted upon for 2 seconds, during which it adjusts its body into a scarecrow and extends its arm out to expose its lantern.

INNATE - A HARMLESS SCARECROW: From level 6 onward, placing an Effigy also summons a demonic eyeball at the location that grants obscured vision of enemy units that are not visible in the area for 6 seconds while also revealing and disabling enemy wards and stealthed traps.

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| Q | Terrify | Range: 575 | Cooldown: 15 / 14.5 / 14 / 13.5 / 13 | Cost: 65 |
PASSIVE: While Fiddlesticks has been out of combat for at least 2.5 seconds and is not visible to the enemy team, or is pretending to be an , Fiddlesticks' next damaging ability causes all targets struck to flee for a duration.

Targets feared by Fiddlesticks are placed on a cooldown equal to Terrify's cooldown, during which they cannot be feared by it again.

FEAR DURATION:
1 / 1.25 / 1.5 / 1.75 / 2

ACTIVE: Fiddlesticks screeches at the target enemy, dealing magic damage and causing them to flee for a duration. This has a minimum damage threshold and is capped at 400 against monsters. Against targets with a cooldown, Terrify instead will have its damage and minimum threshold doubled. Minions are always feared if is not attacking them and there is no enemy champion in its view. Feared enemies are slowed by 90%.

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| W | Bountiful Harvest | Range: 650 | Cooldown: 10 / 9.5 / 9 / 8.5 / 8 | Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80 |
ACTIVE: forms a tether between itself and each nearby enemy over the cast time, then channels for up to 2 seconds, harvesting the souls of tethered targets, revealing itself in the process.

While is channelling, tethered enemies are revealed and dealt magic damage every 0.25 seconds, with the last tick dealing additional magic damage. Total damage is reduced to 50% against minions.

heals itself for a percentage of damage dealt, reduced to 15% against minions. ends if all targets have died or broken their tethers. If the channel was not interrupted, 60% of the remaining cooldown is refunded. A nearby enemy is required to cast this ability. does not need sight of a target to tether itself to them.

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TIPS AND TRICKS

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TIPS AND TRICKS

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TIP 1. Clearing bushes
One of lesser unknown feature is that does not require vision of any target to begin the channel. So using this feature, instead of face-checking all bushes like a dumb id*ot, you can watch flash up if someone is in range.

In addition to this, this is VITAL for early clear strat, as he can channel over walls to attack jungle camps.

*NOTE Yes, you can see invisible/camoflagued champs like and with this strat.

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TIP 2. Teamfights
key gameplan during team-fights is much different from different champs, as in he isn't the one to engage, but he is scouting for the best spot and opportunity to get the most out of his . Always wait for your team to engage before popping and try to get as many people in the initial cast to fear the most people. If you can't directly get anyone, flashing after channel is also a very good strat.

In addition, always channel before your for the best damage output.

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TIP 3. Double fear
Since people cannot get feared twice in a short time, use active after popping your to get extra damage on squishies to delete them from the game.

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TIP 4. Zhonya Crowstorm
A common thing to occur when you on an entire team, is you will get focused due to your immense damage output from , so a common way to circumvent this problem on is to after channeling your and the initial AOE fear, to mitigate damage taken and to extend your damage output.

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TIP 5. Reap checking
In addition to using to check bushes, you can also use to check for enemies in bushes or in fog of war. This is because in-game, plays an animation in the hit-area if you tag anyone by the ability, and due to 's high range and low mana cost, this can be used more frequently, and safer later into a game.

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ITEMS

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CORE ITEMS

MYTHIC
Hextech Rocketbelt: This mythic synergises with Fiddlesticks the most as it gives him needed mobility to his kit, Magic pen. and a bit of tankiness. Its main use is during Crowstorm, as the dash allows Fiddlesticks to chase and keep the Crowstorm on the opponent. Can be used as a get-away.

ZHONYA's HOURGLASS
Zhonya's Hourglass: Stated before in tips and tricks, Zhonya's Hourglass is so vital to Fiddlesticks kit, as it acts as both an offensive tool (during Crowstorm to prolong life, and therefore damage) and a defensive tool (to avoid burst and dying on teamfight ult.

BOOTS
Sorcerer's Shoes: The magic pen. Sorcerer's Shoes provide is so nice early and mid-game, as it allows your Crowstorm and Bountiful Harvest to deal the most impact and damage it can. In addition to this, we are running Predator, so Sorcerer's Shoes and predator provides such a large MS boost early game, allowing you to chase much better and traverse the map faster.

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Other Items:

MYTHICS

DEFENSIVE ITEMS

OFFENSIVE ITEMS

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COMPARING MYTHICS

HEXTECH ROCKETBELT

NIGHT HARVESTER

provides almost everything really needs in 1 item. Movement, magic pen. and a bit of tankiness. The synergy with also outshines many other options in most circumstances because it grants the ability to chase and the burst potential is known for.

On paper, is a really nice item for due to it providing the needed CDR for and move speed from its passive, but, in-game, these bonuses don't really stack up to as it does not provide the on-demand movement and the lack of magic pen. really hurts the late game.

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HEXTECH ROCKETBELT

LIANDRY's ANGUISH

In addition to what I said above, compared to it is mainly what team-comp we are dealing with. If the opposing team is more mobile and squishy, is the better option due to higher burst and chase potential. But against tanky and fat opponents that are less mobile, is the better option due to its max health damage passive.

Unfortunantly, the thing that brings down the most, is the fact that it does not provide any health to increase survivability. The CDR provided is really nice but otherwise it doesn't pose much of a substantial power-spike early on that needs. But, in contrast, the extra mana provided is really useful early game but since is a jungler, the access to blue buff does reduce the need for mana.

STRATERGY

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COMBOS

Surprisingly, ability order on is pretty important, for many reasons.

The first is probably that doing anything but while channeling cancels its channel, leaving it on full cooldown. (Interpolating from this, we should always aim to have a full channel of to always get a shorter cooldown).

The second is that without proper ability order and timing, we miss out of vital seconds of CC or full channels of both and , leading to less damage output which can lead to someone surviving.

So lets get into some combos!

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WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE CROWSTORM

When you either are ganking without or below level 6, the most optimal string is:

1. Predator (if after first back) -> 2. Terrify -> 3. Reap -> 4. Bountiful Harvest

But what if you do have ???

WHEN YOU DO HAVE CROWSTORM

This is probably the most common scenario, and a must know. Basically the most optimal combo:

1. Predator -> 2. Crowstorm -> 3. Terrify -> 4. Reap -> 5. Walk with them

These are really the only combos there are.

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TEAMFIGHTING

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Fiddlestick's main strength is team fighting.
Stated before, his provides such disruption due to 's passive. This and his large array of Crowd Control gives his team a large edge in fights. His high sustain from also allows for easier objectives and overall safer gameplay.

Your main goal when team fighting isn't to initiate (EXCEPT IN SPECIAL CONDITIONS, we will talk about this later), but you should be scouting around for the best position to execute a from fog of war.

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Season 12 - Predator Fiddlesticks

Table of Contents

GUIDE DETAILS

PRE-GAME

PROS AND CONS

CHAMPION INFO

TIPS AND TRICKS

ITEMS

STRATERGY

GAMEPLAY

Season 12 - Predator Fiddlesticks

Season 12 - Predator Fiddlesticks

Runes: Predator

Spells:

Chilling Smite

Flash

Recommended Items

Items

Ability Order Only

A Harmless Scarecrow (PASSIVE)

Terrify (Q)

Bountiful Harvest (W)

Reap (E)

Crowstorm (R)

Threats & Synergies

Nunu & Willump

Evelynn

Warwick

Darius

Dr. Mundo

Elise

Fiddlesticks

Hecarim

Ivern

Jarvan IV

Karthus

Kayn

Kha'Zix

Kindred

Lee Sin

Master Yi

Nasus

Nocturne

Olaf

Nidalee

Poppy

Rammus

Rek'Sai

Rengar

Sejuani

Shaco

Taliyah

Udyr

Vi

Viego

Volibear

Xin Zhao

Zac

Braum

Lulu

Diana

Malphite

Orianna

Qiyana

Braum

Lulu

Diana

Malphite

Orianna

Qiyana

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