Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
Fizz's attacks becomes more deadly for a few seconds after he uses his empowered attack - keep him away while his trident is glowing!
Fizz is a slippery target when his abilities are not on cooldown - bait him into using them early and follow up with crowd control or hard-hitting attacks!
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some strategic Kalista against Fizz matchup statistics that may help us appreciate the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Kalista’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Fizz’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kalista may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Fizz..
Kalista typically has a similar longest killing spree as her foe does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Fizz. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kalista usually loses when playing against Fizz, with a 43.5% win rate. Thus, Kalista makes a bad counter to Fizz.
While Kalista does have a much lower winrate compared to Fizz, when they face off with one another, Kalista also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more complex champion to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Kalista into Fizzas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Kalista also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Fizz. This often 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 in League of Legends, in Kalista vs Fizz matchups, Fizz is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Kalista is a garbage counter for Fizz. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Kalista against Fizz.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kalista in order to counter Fizz during both the laning 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 listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kalista often gets a similar amount of CS compared to Fizz. Champs who on average don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They 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, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Kalista versus Fizz build consist of Runaan's Hurricane, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Kalista used at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when facing Fizz than with most other common builds. In fact, Kalista boasted an average winrate of 43.5% when countering Fizz with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Fizz as Kalista, Kalista players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Kalista vs Fizz face-offs, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 43.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Fizz as Kalista are given for all skill levels combined. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a particular division, you can use the selection menu at the top of this page.