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.
Amumu's Despair makes purchasing primarily Health items a risky proposition.
Erratic movement, or hiding behind creep waves can make it difficult for Amumu to instigate a fight with Bandage Toss.
Avoid bunching up with other allies when Amumu has his ultimate available.
The stat comparisons shown here underscore several strategic Fizz versus Amumu matchup stats that may help us appreciate the distinctions between the two. As an example, Fizz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Amumu’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Fizz may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Amumu. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Fizz often has a much larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives less damage than Amumu. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Fizz usually wins when trying to fight Amumu, with a 54.7% win rate. Therefore, Fizz makes a great counter to Amumu.
While Fizz does have a much higher win rate compared to Amumu, when they face off with one another, Fizz also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging character to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Fizz into Amumu.
Furthermore, Fizz has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Amumu. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Fizz vs Amumu matchups, Fizz is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Fizz is a great counter to Amumu. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Fizz against Amumu.
To learn all of the intricacies of Fizz to counter Amumu during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Fizz on average picks up much more CS compared to Amumu. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Fizz versus Amumu build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Shadowflame. When Fizz used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs. Amumu than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Fizz had an average win rate of 54.7% when playing against Amumu with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Amumu as Fizz, Fizz players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Fizz vs Amumu face-offs, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 54.7% win rate overall.
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