Talk:Fiddlesticks/@comment-24036535-20150422014030/@comment-10136989-20150428101944

Fear is affected by tenacity

Crowstorm + drain is incredibly powerful after a fear, however a lot harder to pull off than the targeted silences+burst of the assassins you mentioned.

I get what you're saying and fiddles is definitely very strong and capable of bursting squishies down, but the difference between him and the ones you mentioned are the respective time periods, and tools of accomplishing burst.

Fiddles ult can be interupted, meaning he can't use it when that has a possiblity of happening. He also requires charging time, which allows enemies to run away if he shows himself while on a ward. The better fiddle players avoid this, but the better players also ward more efficiently. Teams can play around fiddles, individual players have trouble.

The time period like you mentioned is roughly a minimum of 2.5 seconds, however LB, Kass and Talon can accomplish their entire burst in less than a second. This was the counterplay issue, as not even teammates could react fast enough.

All of these champs have had a fair share of nerfs, so Riot is aware of these things, but they don't like bullying champs that aren't seeing disproportionate amounts of play, except Poppy.