How to win the jungle race as Kindred against Fiddlesticks · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Read from Kindred's seat: the race windows this plan plays for against Fiddlesticks.
| Stage | Read | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 Clear | Kindred Dominant | Dance of Arrows kiting beats melee kits that can't close the gap. Later in the game this bites, because Terrify plus a full Bountiful Harvest channel drains you dry if you commit into him. But before either of you has a second camp down none of it is online, so take the level-1 crossing and tax every camp Fiddlesticks concedes. |
| Level 2 Skirmish | Kindred Dominant | Wolf's Frenzy plus Q resets let you skirmish from untouchable range, while Terrify plus the Harvest drain only trades okay if they fully commit into them. Only one of those wins on the second camp, so press it: take the level-2 skirmish, then leave with the second buff and the tempo that comes with it. |
| Level 3 Route | Kindred Dominant | With three dashes banked you kite backwards and win every disengage fight. Effigy bluffs and Bountiful Harvest keep their clear healthy, and as the first scuttle timer lands that is not an answer. Take the level-3 river fight and make Fiddlesticks path away from the camps you want. |
| Levels 4-5 Macro | Kindred Favoured — Take Duels | The 4-5 window is yours if you pick it: he farms 4-5 for Crowstorm, and the effigy is worth more as fake vision than as a fight. Track that pattern, arrive one camp early, and take the fight before the follow-up shows. |
| Level 6 Breakpoint | Respect Fiddlesticks's R | Fiddlesticks wins the breakpoint outright — a fog-channeled Crowstorm flank deletes whole contests, and a Crowstorm from unwarded fog erases half your HP before you can turn. Deep wards beat him completely — the channel needs unseen seconds to land, then trade objectives cross-map until your items land. |
| First Item Spike | Kraken Slayer / Terminus Spike | Completing your core marksman component grants an explosive physical damage acceleration loop that completely changes your brawling thresholds. Your clear velocity scales heavily, allowing you to secure rapid solo neutral pit takes before Fiddlesticks can establish paths. Use this priority window to force aggressive counter-jungle invades or capture remaining marks. Fiddlesticks' first item turns the drain and the fear into a real health bar of damage rather than a delay. |
| 2+ Items Scaling | Kindred Favoured at Full Build | Two items on, the edge is yours. The one thing to plan around is that a Crowstorm from fog ends a whole fight before anyone turns to face it — take that away and the fight is a formality. |
Start your clearing path at the Blue Buff camp to secure optimal ability haste looping across your starting single-target nodes before clearing down into the scuttle crab side. Fiddlesticks clears safely off Bountiful Harvest and effigies, and his path is built around never being where you look.
Ranked by the race windows in Kindred's plans — the jungle race carries no win-rate sample.
The full Kindred vs Fiddlesticks report continues with scuttle & dragon rules, invade windows and safety boundaries, the top-side objective fight, macro rotations and the win condition — plus the live enemy-jungle tracker that shows their start, clear and gank timers in game.
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Kindred's race plan controls 6 of the 7 windows — Kindred holds the tempo advantage in this jungle matchup.
Not exactly — Kindred's race plan controls 6 of the 7 windows, so Fiddlesticks is playing catch-up and has to lean on the map.
Kindred takes Press the Attack on the Precision tree with Triumph, Legend: Alacrity and Coup de Grace, and Domination secondary (Sudden Impact and Treasure Hunter) vs Fiddlesticks.
Start Gustwalker Hatchling + Health Potion and back for Noonquiver / Recurve Bow — path toward the next mark on the back. Build Kraken Slayer / Terminus first, then Blade of the Ruined King / Runaan's Hurricane, with Berserker's Greaves.
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