Talk:Fiddlesticks/@comment-92.200.36.105-20120204122511/@comment-149.169.164.61-20120207063135

The problem is as you get to level 30 people begin to realize how to deal with fiddle, while yes a full drain/crowstorm does very good damage, people won't just sit there, a vayne will condemn you, cait will shoot herself back, graves will smoke screen + dash, and so on so forth, in addition their supports will be ccing whoever starts attacking them. Practically every support can cancel fiddles drain and will do so if someone attacks their carry.

If you target the enemy ap instead, well...most ap's have cc, and a good deal have a longer range than fiddle.

For anyone else, top/jungle generally builds tanky in the current meta and so will survive and run (fiddle is unfortunately rather slow) or just fight if they can kill you.

As for just building tanky, If i played fiddle i'd suspect i'd always try and build roa, rylais, abyssal as you need to be at a close range (and will be targeted heavily).