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.
When Taliyah casts Unraveled Earth in the lane, be on the lookout for Seismic Shove. If she throws you into her minefield, the throws and stones will break your bones.
Taliyah's Threaded Volley is locked into a direction. If she's throwing rocks at you, dodge to the side!
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some valuable Fizz vs. Taliyah matchup stats that can help us realize the differences between the two. Fizz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Taliyah’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Fizz may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Taliyah. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Fizz typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Taliyah. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Fizz usually wins when facing off against Taliyah, with a 55.9% win rate. Therefore, Fizz makes a fantastic counter to Taliyah.
While Fizz does have a much higher winrate than Taliyah, when they face off with one another, Fizz also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Fizz into Taliyah.
Additionally, Fizz has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Taliyah. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Fizz vs Taliyah matchups, Fizz is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Fizz is a great counter to Taliyah. Focus 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 Taliyah.
To learn all of the intricacies of Fizz to counter Taliyah during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Fizz typically picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Taliyah. Champs who on average don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Fizz versus Taliyah build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Fizz combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs Taliyah than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Fizz had an average win rate of 55.9% when playing against Taliyah with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Taliyah as Fizz, Fizz players should equip 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 rune combinations that we analyzed for Fizz vs Taliyah counter picks, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 55.9% winrate overall.
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