Fizz's spells scale off Ability Power - consider getting items like Zhonya's Hourglass or Banshee's Veil against teams that have high burst threat - and items like Lich Bane or Rabadon's Deathcap if you think you can survive without the Health.
Since Fizz can move through units, find opportunities in lane to walk through minions and apply Seastone Trident's passive - following it up with the ability's active attack after a few seconds.
Fizz's ultimate ability, Chum the Waters, can be aimed at an enemy or towards the area where you think they'll be going.
Akali's Five Point Strike is powerful when used at maximum range and energy. Engage on her when she has low energy to maximize your chance of winning trades.
Return to base if your Health is low and Akali has her ultimate available.
Akali can still be hit by area effect spells while obscured inside Twilight Shroud. Doing so will briefly reveal her position.
The stat comparisons shown here feature several vital Fizz vs. Akali matchup statistics that can help us explain the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Fizz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Akali’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Fizz may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Akali..
Fizz often has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. On average, he receives less damage than Akali. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Fizz usually wins when trying to fight Akali, with a 51.5% win rate. Thus, Fizz makes a good counter to Akali.
While Fizz does have a higher winrate compared to Akali, when on opposite teams, Fizz also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Fizz into Akali.
Moreover, Fizz also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Akali. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Fizz vs Akali matchups, Fizz is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Fizz is a decent counter to Akali. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Fizz against Akali.
To truly master Fizz to counter Akali during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Fizz typically racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Akali. Champions who typically don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Fizz versus Akali build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Void Staff. When Fizz included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Akali than with many other typical builds. In fact, Fizz had an average winrate of 51.5% battling Akali with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Akali as Fizz, Fizz players should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ingenious Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Fizz vs Akali LoL games, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Akali as Fizz are shown for all ranked divisions. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a distinct player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.