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.
Ryze is especially dangerous to opponents that are marked with Flux.
Use Realm Warp's windup time to figure out how to deal with what may be coming out of the portal.
Crowd controlling Ryze during Realm Warp's windup will cancel the portal.
The stat comparisons provided here highlight some influential Fizz against Ryze matchup stats that may help you realize the distinctions between these two champs. As an example, Fizz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Ryze’s ratio of NaN, showing that Fizz may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Ryze. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Fizz often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Ryze. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Fizz usually wins when taking on Ryze, with a 51.1% win rate. Therefore, Fizz makes a good counter for Ryze.
While Fizz does have a higher winrate than Ryze, when facing one another, Fizz also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Fizz into Ryze.
Moreover, Fizz also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ryze. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Fizz vs Ryze matchups, Fizz is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Fizz is a decent counter for Ryze. Focus your strategy on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Fizz against Ryze.
To learn all of the intricacies of Fizz in order to counter Ryze during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Fizz often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Ryze. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Fizz versus Ryze build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Fizz incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when facing Ryze than with most other common builds. In fact, Fizz had an average winrate of 51.1% battling Ryze with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Ryze as Fizz, you should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Fizz vs Ryze face-offs, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.1% win rate overall.
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