Fiddlesticks vs Darius
How to Beat Darius as Fiddlesticks
based on 2,155 Fiddlesticks vs Darius matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Fiddlesticks vs Darius Matchup Summary
Best Fiddlesticks vs Darius Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Darius as Fiddlesticks
Advice to Win Against Darius
When Darius's axe grab is on cooldown, he is vulnerable to harassment attacks.
Darius's ability to escape from fights is limited. If you have an advantage against him, press your lead.
Fiddlesticks vs Darius Counter Stats
How to Counter Darius with Fiddlesticks in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several valuable Fiddlesticks against Darius counter statistics that may help you understand the differences between the pair. As an example, Fiddlesticks’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Darius’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Fiddlesticks may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Darius. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Fiddlesticks normally has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Darius. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Fiddlesticks and Darius
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Who is Better, Fiddlesticks or Darius?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Fiddlesticks usually fairs equally well when playing against Darius, with a 49.0% win rate. Thus, Fiddlesticks makes an ok counter to Darius.
While Fiddlesticks does have a lower winrate compared to Darius, when on opposite teams, Fiddlesticks also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Fiddlesticks into Dariusas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Fiddlesticks has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Darius. 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 Fiddlesticks vs Darius matchups, Darius is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Fiddlesticks is a somewhat poor counter for Darius. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Fiddlesticks against Darius.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Fiddlesticks to counter Darius during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Fiddlesticks often picks up a lot less CS as Darius. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Fiddlesticks versus Darius build include Cryptbloom, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Fiddlesticks used at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better versus Darius than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Fiddlesticks boasted an average winrate of 49.0% when playing against Darius with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of defeating Darius as Fiddlesticks, Fiddlesticks players should equip the First Strike, Triple Tonic, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Fiddlesticks vs Darius LoL games, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Darius as Fiddlesticks are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier on the page.