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.
Focused Resolve is a strong disengage tool. Create distance to avoid being rooted and seek to engage afterwards.
Karma's Soulflare erupts for bonus damage in the area in which it's placed. React quickly and escape the circle to avoid taking heavy damage.
Karma's passive lowers her Mantra cooldown when she hits enemy champions with abilities and basic attacks. Deny her from getting free hits on you.
The stats shown here highlight some valuable Fizz against Karma matchup statistics that can help us interpret the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Fizz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Karma’s ratio of NaN, showing that Fizz may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Karma. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Fizz typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Karma. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
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 playing against Karma, with a 53.7% win rate. Thus, Fizz makes a great counter for Karma.
While Fizz does have a higher winrate than Karma, when facing one another, Fizz also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champ to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Fizz into Karma.
Furthermore, Fizz also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Karma. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Fizz vs Karma 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 teamfights.
Fizz is a great counter to Karma. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Fizz against Karma.
To learn all of the intricacies of Fizz in order to counter Karma during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Fizz typically picks up more CS as Karma. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Fizz versus Karma build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Fizz included at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting Karma than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Fizz had an average winrate of 53.7% battling Karma with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Karma as Fizz, you should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Fizz vs Karma clashes, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 53.7% win rate overall.
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