Keep your distance when Aatrox uses his Ultimate to prevent him from reviving.
Aatrox's Infernal Chains are easier to exit when running towards the sides or at Aatrox.
Aatrox's attacks are very telegraphed, so use the time to dodge the hit zones.
The stat comparisons shown on this page show several significant Fiddlesticks against Aatrox matchup statistics that can help you understand the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. As an example, Fiddlesticks’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Aatrox’s ratio of NaN, showing that Fiddlesticks may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Aatrox..
Fiddlesticks typically has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Aatrox. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Fiddlesticks usually fairs equally well when facing off against Aatrox, with a 50.0% win rate. Thus, Fiddlesticks makes an ok counter to Aatrox.
While Fiddlesticks does have a higher winrate than Aatrox, when on opposite teams, Fiddlesticks also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Fiddlesticks into Aatroxas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Fiddlesticks has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Aatrox. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Fiddlesticks vs Aatrox matchups, Aatrox is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Fiddlesticks is a decent counter for Aatrox. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Fiddlesticks against Aatrox.
To truly master Fiddlesticks in order to counter Aatrox during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Fiddlesticks on average gets a lot less CS relative to Aatrox. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Fiddlesticks versus Aatrox build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Void Staff, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Fiddlesticks bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs Aatrox than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Fiddlesticks had an average winrate of 50.0% when countering Aatrox with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Aatrox as Fiddlesticks, Fiddlesticks players should equip the Predator, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Perfect Timing, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Fiddlesticks vs Aatrox battles, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Aatrox as Fiddlesticks are displayed for all skill levels, merged. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a distinct player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.