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.
Many of Ziggs' abilities have long cooldowns. Try catching him just after he's used his abilities.
Don't step on Ziggs' mines! They'll slow you and make it much easier for him to hit you with his other abiltiies.
Ziggs' ultimate, Mega Inferno Bomb, deals more damage in the center of the explosion.
The stats provided here highlight some strategic Fizz against Ziggs matchup statistics that may help you grasp the differences between the two. As an example, Fizz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Ziggs’s ratio of NaN, showing that Fizz may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Ziggs. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Fizz usually has a much larger longest killing spree than his counter does. On average, he takes more damage than Ziggs. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Fizz usually wins when trying to fight Ziggs, with a 52.9% win rate. Therefore, Fizz makes a good counter for Ziggs.
While Fizz does have a higher win rate compared to Ziggs, when facing one another, Fizz also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Fizz into Ziggs.
Moreover, Fizz also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ziggs. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Fizz vs Ziggs 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 team members during team fights.
Fizz is a good counter for Ziggs. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Fizz against Ziggs.
To truly master Fizz in order to counter Ziggs during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Fizz typically picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Ziggs. Champs who on average don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Fizz versus Ziggs build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Fizz bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs. Ziggs than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Fizz had an average win rate of 52.9% when playing against Ziggs with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of crushing Ziggs as Fizz, Fizz players should equip 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 combinations that we analyzed for Fizz vs Ziggs counters, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.9% win rate overall.
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