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.
Pay attention to Ionian Fervor stacks and try to engage Irelia when it is down.
Minion waves greatly enhance Irelia's mobility, beware fighting her inside one.
Beware of wasting your high impact spells on Defiant Dance.
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several valuable Fizz versus Irelia counter statistics that may help us figure out the differences between the pair. For instance, Fizz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Irelia’s ratio of NaN, showing that Fizz may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Irelia..
Fizz usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Irelia. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Fizz usually wins when facing off against Irelia, with a 52.8% win rate. As a result, Fizz makes a good counter to Irelia.
While Fizz does have a higher winrate compared to Irelia, when they face off with one another, Fizz also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Fizz into Irelia.
Furthermore, Fizz also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Irelia. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Fizz vs Irelia 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 teammates during team fights.
Fizz is a good counter for Irelia. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Fizz against Irelia.
To truly master Fizz in order to counter Irelia during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Fizz most often accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Irelia. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Fizz versus Irelia build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Shadowflame. When Fizz used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better against Irelia than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Fizz had an average win rate of 52.8% when countering Irelia with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Irelia as Fizz, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ingenious Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Fizz vs Irelia clashes, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Irelia as Fizz are given for all ranked divisions. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a distinct skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.