The stat comparisons provided here show some strategic Fiddlesticks versus Nilah matchup statistics that may help us interpret the differences between the two. For instance, Fiddlesticks’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nilah’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Fiddlesticks may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Nilah..
Fiddlesticks typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives more damage than Nilah. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Fiddlesticks usually fairs equally well when playing against Nilah, with a 49.7% win rate. Therefore, Fiddlesticks makes an ok counter for Nilah.
While Fiddlesticks does have a lower win rate compared to Nilah, when on opposite teams, Fiddlesticks also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming character to learn. You should be careful when picking Fiddlesticks into Nilahas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Fiddlesticks also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nilah. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Fiddlesticks vs Nilah matchups, Nilah is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Fiddlesticks is a somewhat poor counter for Nilah. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Fiddlesticks against Nilah.
If you would like to truly master Fiddlesticks in order to counter Nilah during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Fiddlesticks most often accumulates a lot less CS as Nilah. Champions who on average don't take 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 a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The best items to use in your Fiddlesticks versus Nilah build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Fiddlesticks incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Nilah than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Fiddlesticks had an average winrate of 49.7% when countering Nilah with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Nilah as Fiddlesticks, Fiddlesticks players should use the First Strike, Triple Tonic, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Fiddlesticks vs Nilah matchups, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.7% win rate overall.
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