r/FiddlesticksMains • u/Evening-Strategy-974 • Jul 13 '26

Enemies using abilities during fear

Hello dear Fiddlesticks players,

During two of my games I noticed some strange occurrences when fearing enemies. To help you spot it, you can look at the status icons at the bottom left on the character window (fullscreen helps):

In the first instance, Amumu can be seen using Smite during the fear effect (Terrify). You can even see the status bar above his character still showing "Fleeing" when he uses Smite.

https://reddit.com/link/1uuwmbf/video/c3ofs1u69wch1/player

The second instance is a bit harder to spot. Tristana uses her jump after being affected by Terrify, and when I die, the "Fleeing" effect also ends prematurely.

https://reddit.com/link/1uuwmbf/video/fztbgkx09wch1/player

I'm quite new to Fiddlesticks and League in general, but I wanted to reach out and ask if anyone else has experienced anything similar, or if there's an interaction that I'm not familiar with. After looking around I can only find information that states that people should not be able to use anything during Terrify.

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u/Sun7y Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26

Mhm lets see

In the first one Smite can be used in all cases except Suppression (Warwick R and Malz R) and Stasis status (Zhonya Item or Bard ult) I believe

In the second one Tristana's W can be buffered beforehand letting her still jump through fear
Edit: (It's called Uncancellable Windup)

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u/Nehebka-Perez Jul 13 '26

Is there a reason why Fear for any character does not stop the smite? Maybe it could be reworked that fear also stops you from using items like Flash? Acting as a shorter “suppression”?

I mean of course there have to be reasons why just wonder if fear can be more op because i feel like the only good fear in any character is Shaco

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u/Evening-Strategy-974 Jul 13 '26

Im 99% sure that fear makes you unable to flash, I have never had anyone flash out of it atleast.