Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some important Aatrox against Fiddlesticks matchup stats that can help us explain the differences between the pair. Aatrox’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Fiddlesticks’s ratio of NaN, showing that Aatrox may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Fiddlesticks..
Aatrox often has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Typically, he receives more damage than Fiddlesticks. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Aatrox usually wins when playing against Fiddlesticks, with a 53.8% win rate. Therefore, Aatrox makes a great counter for Fiddlesticks.
While Aatrox does have a higher winrate than Fiddlesticks, when they face off with one another, Aatrox also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging champ to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Aatrox into Fiddlesticks.
Moreover, Aatrox also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Fiddlesticks. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Aatrox vs Fiddlesticks matchups, Aatrox is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Aatrox is a great counter to Fiddlesticks. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Aatrox against Fiddlesticks.
To truly master Aatrox in order to counter Fiddlesticks during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aatrox on average gets much more CS relative to Fiddlesticks. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Aatrox versus Fiddlesticks build include Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Death's Dance. When Aatrox combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better versus Fiddlesticks than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Aatrox boasted an average winrate of 53.8% when playing against Fiddlesticks with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Fiddlesticks as Aatrox, Aatrox players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Aatrox vs Fiddlesticks matchups, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 53.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Fiddlesticks as Aatrox are given for every ranked division. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a specific skill level, you should use the selection menu located earlier on the page.