Fiddlesticks ARAM Mayhem Build

The Ancient Fear. A below-average pick in ARAM Mayhem on patch 26.21: #122 of 173 champions.

CPatch 26.21MageSupportNo runes in Mayhem

Tier: C
Win rate: 48.0%
Pick rate: 3.8%
Rank: #122 of 173
Games: 889,023
Patch: 26.21

How to play Fiddlesticks in ARAM Mayhem

Fiddlesticks is a below-average pick in ARAM Mayhem on patch 26.21: tier C, #122 of 173 champions, with a 48.0% win rate over 889,023 games. Riot rates it 9/10 for difficulty, so give it a few games before you judge it.

91% of Fiddlesticks's damage to champions is magic, so enemy magic resist is what slows it down. With 60 seconds of crowd control per game it is one of the team's main sources of lockdown.

The AP build, ability power items, is both the most played and the top-ranked path: Malignance, Rabadon's Deathcap and Shadowflame, with a 48.1% win rate over 647,387 games. On this build 55% of players skip boots and spend the slot on another item.

The cards that do best on Fiddlesticks are Clown College, Giant Slayer and Homeguard. Cards built around movement speed fill most of the top of its list, followed by ability haste. Most of its S-tier cards are prismatic, so a prismatic offer is often the pick that shapes the game. Skip Master of Duality and Juiced when you can: they do worst on Fiddlesticks. A pair to look for: Homeguard with Clown College.

Take Flash and Barrier (1% of players). Max W (Bountiful Harvest) first, then Q, then E.

Fiddlesticks ARAM Mayhem build

ARAMKit groups every Fiddlesticks game by build path. The top-ranked path comes first, with the items most players start with, buy first and add later.

AP build · top ranked

48.1% win rate · 85% of Fiddlesticks games · 647,387 games

Start

Lost Chapter

Core items, in buying order

Malignance
Rabadon's Deathcap
Shadowflame

Boots on the AP build for Fiddlesticks, top ranked first, with the share of players who buy them
Boots, best first	Players
No boots	55%
Sorcerer's Shoes	33%
Gluttonous Greaves	7%

Situational, after the core

Stormsurge14% buy it
Void Staff35% buy it
Banshee's Veil4% buy it
Riftmaker4% buy it
Zhonya's Hourglass36% buy it
Liandry's Torment14% buy it

Most bought items

Malignance86% of games
Shadowflame65% of games
Liandry's Torment56% of games
Zhonya's Hourglass50% of games
Rabadon's Deathcap47% of games
Sorcerer's Shoes38% of games
Void Staff18% of games
Rylai's Crystal Scepter17% of games
Blackfire Torch17% of games
Stormsurge14% of games

Best augments for Fiddlesticks

Every card with enough Fiddlesticks games, by tier and best first within each tier. Tiers are Fiddlesticks's own: a card can be S tier here and C tier on another champion. As Riot's policy asks, cards are shown by tier and order only, never with a win rate. Click a card for its own page; the augment tier list ranks them over all champions.

PrismaticBest prismatic cards

GoldBest gold cards

SilverBest silver cards

S- and A-tier cards for Fiddlesticks

7 S tier and 38 A tier, best first.

The S- and A-tier augments for Fiddlesticks in ARAM Mayhem, best first, with their rarity and what they do
Augment	Rarity	Tier	What it does
Clown College	Prismatic	Tier S	Backstab: You deal (20–35 (by level) +35% Ability Power +50% Bonus Attack Damage) bonus physical damage when striking from behind. Deceive…
Giant Slayer	Prismatic	Tier S	Become tiny, gain 20% Movement Speed, and deal between 10% and 30% bonus damage to champions based on how much larger they are than you.
Homeguard	Silver	Tier S	Gain 100% Movement Speed, disabled for 6 seconds after taking damage.
Mad Scientist	Prismatic	Tier S	On each Revive, you grow large (gaining 30% Adaptive Force and 20% Health) or tiny (gaining 70 Ability Haste and 40% Movement Speed).
Escape Plan	Silver	Tier S	Gain a massive (65% Max Health) decaying Shield, decaying 150% Movement Speed, and a decaying shrink effect upon reaching 35% Health (75…
Wooglet's Witchcap	Prismatic	Tier S	QUEST: Possess Rabadon's Deathcap and Zhonya's Hourglass. REWARD: Get Wooglet's Witchcap.
Upgrade Zhonya's	Silver	Tier S	Reduce Zhonya's Hourglass Cooldown to 45 seconds. You can now move when in Zhonya's Hourglass, Seeker's Armguard, or Wooglet's Witchcap…
From Beginning To End	Gold	Tier A	Gain the First Strike and Dark Harvest Keystone Runes. First Strike: When you initiate champion combat, deal 10% extra damage for 3 seconds…
Veil of Warding	Silver	Tier A	Gain a Spell Shield every 30 seconds that blocks the next enemy Ability.
Glass Cannon	Prismatic	Tier A	Reduce max Health by 30%. Deal an extra Melee 25% / Ranged 15% damage as true damage.
Stuck In Here With Me	Prismatic	Tier A	After using your Ultimate, gain 50% damage reduction for 2 seconds, after which you Taunt enemies inside for 2 seconds. Gain 30 Ultimate…
Omni Soul	Prismatic	Tier A	Gain 3 random Dragon Souls.
Weapon of Destiny	Gold	Tier A	Your first Legendary Item becomes the Weapon of Destiny. When a champion you damaged within the last 3 seconds dies, increase the Weapon of…
Hand of Baron	Prismatic	Tier A	Gain 25% Adaptive Force. Nearby allied minions are greatly empowered.
Erosion	Silver	Tier A	Damaging enemies shreds 1.5% Armor and Magic Resist for 4s, up to 30% at 20 stacks.
Leg Day	Silver	Tier A	Gain 50 Movement Speed and 50% Slow Resist.
Big Brain	Gold	Tier A	Gain a (300% Ability Power) Shield. Resets on death or 70 seconds after depletion.
BEES!!!	Gold	Tier A	Every 15–10 (by level) seconds, your next Ability hit against an enemy champion throws a beehive at the target. Upon arriving, the hive…
Final Form	Prismatic	Tier A	After casting your Ultimate, gain a 50% max Health Shield, 20% Omnivamp and 30% bonus Movement Speed for 10 seconds. (20 seconds Cooldown).
Upgrade Stormsurge	Gold	Tier A	Stormsurge's Squall now always detonates in an area, dealing (10%+2% Ability Power) maximum Health magic damage to all nearby enemies. Enemy…
Fey Magic	Prismatic	Tier A	Damaging with your Ultimate Polymorphs enemies for 2 seconds (15 second Cooldown).
Fruitify	Silver	Tier A	Scoring a Takedown causes the slain champion to explode into 3–6 (by level) Fruit. Fruit restores 6% of your maximum health and restores 6%…
Dive Bomber	Silver	Tier A	Explodes when you die, dealing 20% of the target's max Health as true damage to nearby enemies.
Tooth Fairy	Gold	Tier A	When you deal more than 25% of an enemy champion's Health in less than 2.5 seconds, they drop a Tooth. 4 seconds cooldown per target
Shark Bait	Gold	Tier A	On death, become Shark Bait. You can take no actions other than moving, which slows nearby enemies by 40%. After a few seconds, a Shark…
It's Killing Time	Gold	Tier A	After casting your Ultimate, mark all enemies and store 40% of damage you deal to them. After 5 seconds, detonate the stored damage (8…
Blue Barrier	Silver	Tier A	Gain 200–450 (by level) % of the Max Mana Mana you spend as a Shield for 1.5 seconds. Shields up to 300–800 (by level)
Overflow	Gold	Tier A	Your Mana costs double. Your Ability Heals, Shields, and damage are (10%+0.5% Max Mana) more effective.
Shrink Engine	Gold	Tier A	Takedowns grant a stack that makes you 4% smaller, grants 8 Ability Haste, and 1% Movement Speed. Lose 65% stacks on death…
Forged By The Master	Silver	Tier A	Your Item and Augment damage are increased by 45%.
Flashy	Gold	Tier A	Your Flash has 3 charges. After 120 seconds, regain all charges.
Jeweled Gauntlet	Prismatic	Tier A	Your Abilities can Critically Strike for 45% increased damage. Gain Critical Strike Chance (25%+4.5% Ability Power) Crit Chance.
Infinite Recursion	Prismatic	Tier A	Gain 60 Ability Haste, plus 3 Ability Haste per takedown.
Transmute: Chaos	Prismatic	Tier A	Gain 2 random Augment Tier Augments.
Shadow Runner	Silver	Tier A	After using a Dash, Blink, or Teleport Ability or exiting Stealth, gain 300 Movement Speed for 2 seconds.
Warlock Juicebox	Gold	Tier A	Gain (10%+3.5% Ability Power) Omnivamp.
Transmute: Prismatic	Gold	Tier A	Gain a random Augment Tier Prismatic Augment.
Phenomenal Evil	Gold	Tier A	Permanently gain 1 Ability Power when you damage enemy champions with Abilities. If taken as your second Augment, starts with 40 Ability…
Mosh Monster	Prismatic	Tier A	Casting selected ability grants 300–750 (by level) bonus Health and Slows nearby enemies by 50% for the duration of selected ability Getting…
Goldrend	Prismatic	Tier A	Damaging a champion with Attacks or Abilities deals an additional (50–150 (by level) +20% Ability Power +40% Bonus Attack Damage) magic…
Twin Fire	Silver	Tier A	On ability damage, fire 1 plus (3% Critical Strike Chance) missiles that deal (10–30 (by level) +7% Bonus Attack Damage+7% Ability Power)…
Eureka	Prismatic	Tier A	Gain (30% Ability Power) Ability Haste.
Witchful Thinking	Silver	Tier A	Gain Ability Power 20–80 (by level) Ability Power.
Stats on Stats!	Gold	Tier A	Gain 3 Stat Anvils, with a higher chance of Gold and Prismatic Anvils!
Blade Waltz	Prismatic	Tier A	Makes you untargetable while you dash at and deal (30–150 (by level) +10% Bonus Attack Damage+6% Ability Power) damage to enemies 8 times…

Average on Fiddlesticks
57 cards, best first

Below average on Fiddlesticks
30 cards, best first

Weakest on Fiddlesticks
14 cards, best first

Best first augment for Fiddlesticks

Your first card decides the early fights, and a card that is great as a first pick can be a weak fourth. ARAMKit ranks Fiddlesticks's cards for each pick on its own; these are the top five per pick, with their tier in that pick. For the first pick, Giant Slayer, Clown College and Wooglet's Witchcap come out on top.

The best augments for Fiddlesticks in each pick of an ARAM Mayhem game, best first, with their tier in that pick
#	First pick	Second pick	Third pick	Fourth pick
1	Giant SlayerTier S	Bread And JamTier S	HomeguardTier S	HomeguardTier S
2	Clown CollegeTier S	Bread And ButterTier S	Clown CollegeTier S	Clown CollegeTier S
3	Wooglet's WitchcapTier S	Clown CollegeTier S	Mad ScientistTier S	Giant SlayerTier S
4	Upgrade Zhonya'sTier S	Escape PlanTier S	Giant SlayerTier S	Stuck In Here With MeTier S
5	Weapon of DestinyTier S	Giant SlayerTier A	Upgrade Zhonya'sTier A	Upgrade StormsurgeTier S

Strong card pairs

Two cards that do especially well together on Fiddlesticks, best pair first.

Summoner spells and skill order

Summoner spells

Flash + Barrier1% of players · 49.1% win rate
Flash + Ghost8% of players · 48.3% win rate
Flash + Mark89% of players · 47.9% win rate

Skill order

WBountiful Harvest
QTerrify
EReap

Max W first. 70% of players use this order (48.7% win rate); put points in R whenever you can.

Fiddlesticks in an average Mayhem game

Averages per game over every game on this patch.

K / D / A: 9.3 / 11.9 / 25.4
KDA: 3.22
Damage to champions: 36,951
Damage taken: 39,904
Self-mitigated: 24,812
Healing on allies: 11
Shielding on allies: 0
Crowd control: 60 s
Kill participation: 62%
Game length: 17:05

Damage type

Physical 2%Magic 91%True 7%

Questions and answers

What is the best Fiddlesticks build in ARAM Mayhem?

On patch 26.21 ARAMKit ranks the AP build first for Fiddlesticks: Malignance, Rabadon's Deathcap and Shadowflame. It is also the most played build.

What are the best augments for Fiddlesticks in ARAM Mayhem?

The S-tier cards for Fiddlesticks, best first: Clown College, Giant Slayer, Homeguard, Mad Scientist and Escape Plan. The full list by tier is on this page.

Is Fiddlesticks good in ARAM Mayhem?

Fiddlesticks is tier C on patch 26.21, #122 of 173 champions, with a 48.0% win rate over 889,023 games. That makes it a below-average pick in ARAM Mayhem right now.

What is the best first augment for Fiddlesticks in ARAM Mayhem?

For Fiddlesticks's first pick on patch 26.21: Giant Slayer, Clown College, Wooglet's Witchcap, Upgrade Zhonya's and Weapon of Destiny, best first. Cards rank differently in later picks; the table on this page has all four.

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ARAM Mayhem tier list
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ARAM Mayhem rules
Augment levels, rerolls and why there are no runes.
ARAM Mayhem guide
How the mode, the cards and the picks work.
Fiddlesticks counters
Its lane matchups on Summoner's Rift.
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The card picker and build in the app.

Source: ARAMKit, used with permission. Patch 26.21, 23,177,263 ARAM Mayhem games, data of October 28, 2026. Riot keeps Mayhem games out of its public match API, so these aggregates come from ARAMKit. Card tiers are shown without win rates, as Riot's developer policy asks.