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Fiddlesticks Guide
Patch 26.19 Iron-Emerald·Difficulty:
Fiddlesticks is an Electrocute burst mage who wins fights from fog. Clear fast, farm to level 6, and let R do the work: blink in from a bush or the fog line, keep them in the crows with Q and E, and finish with W while you stand on top of them. Hextech Rocketbelt comes first for the health, the dash and the haste that keeps R ready for every play, then Shadowflame and Zhonya's. If they can see you, you have already lost the fight.
Runes
Quick Tips
All phases
- •Never show yourself on the map. Fiddlesticks lives and dies by fog of war. Always.
- •Dark Seal after your first item, not before. Never slow your first item for it.
- •Do not chase stacks on your hunter rune. Sitting on three is fine; walking into a fight for a stack is how you lose R.
- •Electrocute is the keystone. Dark Harvest only pays off in games that go long.
- •From Emerald up Electrocute is clearly right; in Gold, First Strike is the keystone that adds the most.
Skill Priority
W
›Q
›E
Q
·
·
·
4
·
W
1
·
3
·
5
E
·
2
·
·
·
Early Game
Before 1st item
- •Start W and clear with it: drag the low camp into the next one and W both, so the last tick finishes one and starts the other.
- •Keep E to pull the next camp to you, and walk into a fresh camp with E, then Q, then W, because a feared camp takes double Q.
- •Your first clear should have you level 4 by 3:01, and by 2:58 once you are Master. That is the mark for every jungler.
- •Level 6 is your spike, so clear every camp the moment it respawns; falling behind on camps is falling behind on R.
- •Do not show bot lane or dragon pit while you clear. Stay in fog at all times.
- •Raptors first if you are playing for dragon: it denies the invade and sets your timer.
First Back
Regular full clear & crab
Core Build Examples
Default
Malignance
vs tanks
Mid Game
1-3 items
- •Farm camps and hold angles. Your team starts the objective; you arrive from fog.
- •Never walk in front of your team. Hold the fog line and wait for them to face check you.
- •Learn the R angles around every objective by heart: the bush, the wall and the fog line you blink from.
- •Save R for objectives. A kill in a side lane right before Baron spawns costs you the fight that matters.
- •Path toward the lane with priority or the teammate who wins the game, and time your clears to meet them there.
Situational
vs AD assassins
Good Vs
vs tanks and health stackers
Good Vs
vs magic resist
Good Vs
vs R stoppers
Good Vs
vs squishy comps
Good Vs
vs healing
Good Vs
Late Game
4+ items
- •One good R from a bush wins a fight your team cannot win straight up.
- •If they are not contesting, take the objective. If they are, you fight first and take it after.
- •Let them walk into you. Never chase: wait in a bush and let them come.
- •Play every fight from a fog angle. If you are visible, you have already lost it.
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Fiddlesticks Guide
Patch 26.19 Iron-Emerald·Difficulty:
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Runes
Skill Priority
W
›Q
›E
Q
·
·
·
4
·
W
1
·
3
·
5
E
·
2
·
·
·
Core Build Examples
Default
Malignance
vs tanks
First Back
Regular full clear & crab
Situational
vs AD assassins
Good Vs
vs tanks and health stackers
Good Vs
vs magic resist
Good Vs
vs R stoppers
Good Vs
vs squishy comps
Good Vs
vs healing
Good Vs
Quick Tips
All phases
- •Never show yourself on the map. Fiddlesticks lives and dies by fog of war. Always.
- •Dark Seal after your first item, not before. Never slow your first item for it.
- •Do not chase stacks on your hunter rune. Sitting on three is fine; walking into a fight for a stack is how you lose R.
- •Electrocute is the keystone. Dark Harvest only pays off in games that go long.
- •From Emerald up Electrocute is clearly right; in Gold, First Strike is the keystone that adds the most.
Early Game
Before 1st item
- •Start W and clear with it: drag the low camp into the next one and W both, so the last tick finishes one and starts the other.
- •Keep E to pull the next camp to you, and walk into a fresh camp with E, then Q, then W, because a feared camp takes double Q.
- •Your first clear should have you level 4 by 3:01, and by 2:58 once you are Master. That is the mark for every jungler.
- •Level 6 is your spike, so clear every camp the moment it respawns; falling behind on camps is falling behind on R.
- •Do not show bot lane or dragon pit while you clear. Stay in fog at all times.
- •Raptors first if you are playing for dragon: it denies the invade and sets your timer.
Mid Game
1-3 items
- •Farm camps and hold angles. Your team starts the objective; you arrive from fog.
- •Never walk in front of your team. Hold the fog line and wait for them to face check you.
- •Learn the R angles around every objective by heart: the bush, the wall and the fog line you blink from.
- •Save R for objectives. A kill in a side lane right before Baron spawns costs you the fight that matters.
- •Path toward the lane with priority or the teammate who wins the game, and time your clears to meet them there.
Late Game
4+ items
- •One good R from a bush wins a fight your team cannot win straight up.
- •If they are not contesting, take the objective. If they are, you fight first and take it after.
- •Let them walk into you. Never chase: wait in a bush and let them come.
- •Play every fight from a fog angle. If you are visible, you have already lost it.