Talk:Fiddlesticks/@comment-67.169.207.175-20110320050520/@comment-67.208.160.122-20110322174720

Yeah, in long games he's definitely a support champion. Successful Fiddles (by successful I mean helping the team win) will rape/gank champs early/mid suppressing their killstreaks/gold-income/morale and then transition into support and not mind racking up assists rather than kills lategame. If you're still raping late-game, by all means, continue to do so, but this usually occurs only pubnub games.

Once your AP effectiveness begins to taper off against the enemies rising healthpool, magic resist and once you begin to become high-priority threat and getting focused too hard, too fast in team fights to do anything -- then you start moving into the support role. Well timed fears can turn the tides of teamfights by turning carries who popped anti-CCs into wandering, zero-dps punching bags. Use ult more liberally but surgically, with the intention of just damaging and scattering their team into panic for your carries to swoop in rather than waiting and waiting for the "perfect" opportunity to use it to get kills -- basically, forego strictly going for kills and emphasize support for the team, which will net you some kills anyway; you're trying to win the game, not be Monta Ellis (NBA reference) who scores ludricous amounts of points but the team loses anyway.

I would even suggest dropping some high AP/MagPen items for multiple RoAs or other tanky items that still benefit a caster (such as 1-2 RoAs, Rylais, Zhonya's) IF you are getting focused too much to be effective in late-game team fights. You'll be sacrificing AP for sure from a pure-AP build, but in this way, you're changing up your gameplay to help out the team and win by staying alive and focusing more on Fiddle's CC strength in teamfights rather than high magic damage -- his Q is a fear CC, his E is multiple target silence (!) or just use it to break BV shields so your high-AP carries can nuke, and his ult indirectly creates panic (don't lie, I know you go "Oh, shit!" when you hear Fiddle's ult get activated). See, you'll be supporting your team in other ways than just trying to rack up kills.