Fizz: The Tidal Trickster

Hello everyone! This is my third guide here on Mobafire, this time featuring the coolest fish ever, Fizz:The Tidal Trickster. Fizz is my main mid/ap carry champion in the League, he has an incredible burst damage and awesome gameplay!
In this guide ill show you 2 different ways to play Fizz, although my favourite build is the assassin one.

LORE:'"Fizz makes even the saltiest sailors of Bilgewater look like drunken landlubbers in a fight. Good thing he’s on our side.” – Miss Fortune, the Bounty Hunter.
Centuries ago, an ancient water-dwelling race built a hidden city beneath a mountain in the sea. Though these creatures had their enemies, the city was an impenetrable fortress, and, in the safety it provided, they grew complacent. Fizz, however, harbored a curious spirit that could not be satisfied living so cushioned a life. Unable to resist the allure of danger, Fizz had a habit of sneaking out of the city to look for trouble. In his many adventures he grew to be a powerful fighter with a sharp cleverness that let him skirt danger with ease. One day Fizz returned to find the city abandoned: his people had vanished, leaving Fizz without a clue to explain their disappearance. With nothing left in the city to keep him, Fizz salvaged an enchanted seastone trident from the ruins and set out alone.

Fizz wandered the ocean in search of his people for years, using the skills he’d learned during his adventures as young boy to survive. Finally, Fizz discovered the port of Bilgewater. He was fascinated with the existence of life above the water and could not resist exploring the island. In his endless curiosity, Fizz inadvertently meddled in the affairs of the humans who lived there, and his presence did not go unnoticed. His mischief angered many residents who eventually sought to capture or kill him. Fizz found himself cornered, and he prepared to return to the sea despite the fondness he’d come to hold for Bilgewater. As he stood at the docks, a massive dragon-shark attacked the port. Fizz defeated the beast, using his resourcefulness and knowledge of the creature’s weaknesses to his advantage. Having earned the gratitude and respect of the humans, Fizz decided to stay in Bilgewater. To further serve his new home, he joined the League of Legends.

Fizz: The Tidal Trickster

Fizz was launched on 11th November, 2011, and here's his Champion Spotlight video, which resumes a bit of Fizz's gameplay, abilities and recommended builds.

Fizz: The Tidal Trickster

Before going depth into Fizz's items, skill sequence and such, I'll list some of Fizz's pain the *** enemies, ill try to give some information on how to play against them, but noticed that these are Fizz's counter, so it'll be hard still.

Fizz: The Tidal Trickster

The good thing about playing Fizz is that he counters many many usual ap carries, due to his W skill Seastone Trident that work a bit alike Ignite, and cause of his great mobility and burst damage.
So here I'll show a list of champions that are fish food, some champions you can deal with really really easily.




Here's a Vladimir, well its absolutely painful for a Vladimir playing against Fizz. Vlads game consist on spamming abilities like Tides of Blood or Sanguine Pool using his own health and getting it back, healing himself, spamming Transfusion. So no one is better than Fizz to counter this guy, your Seastone Trident, once you trigger it, will deal base health damge + some flat ammount of damage and will reduce all incoming healing on your target, so Vladimir's heals will be weak, and since Vladimir is pretty slow and has a really hard early game, if you manage to use well your Seastone Trident and your burst Urchin Strike + Ignite you can easily take down Vladimir and get a huge advantage over him early and mid game.



Oh here's another champion which is fish food! Brand is pretty slow and doesn't a good escaping mechanism, he can just hit you with Conflagration and isnta stun you with Sear buying him some time to run away from your attacks. But since Brand's mobility isn't that good, and Fizz ignores unite collision with his passive Nimble Fighter its easy for you to chase Brand and nuke him with your burst damage. Brand is very squishy, i advice avoiding his nuke ability Pillar of Flame, its a delayed aoe ability, you should be able to avoid it pretty easily.



A wild Cassiopeia appears! No problem for Fizz, here's another squishy ap carry, this will make your life a bit hard but not a problem, manage to dodge her Q ability Noxious Blast, its pretty similar to Karthus's Lay Waste, a delayed ability which will poison you and damage over. Try not to get caught by Cassiopeia's poison abilities Noxious Blast and Miasma or she'll spam hit you with her burst damage ability Twin Fang. Cassiopeia is pretty slow and her unique mechanism (except Flash) is her ultimate Petrifying Gaze which can stun or slow you buying her some time to run away.
But once you hit her with your burst Urchin Strike, since she's pretty squishy, you trigger your Seastone Trident to reduce healing incoming and deal damage over time, and you can finish her with your Chum of Waters or just jump on her with Playful / Trickster and using Ignite. Pretty easy opponent for Fizz.



Another pretty easy opponent for Fizz is Swain. Boring champion with some awesome sustain, but slow as well. You should avoid his Nevermove, if you do that, he wont be able to nuke you. He might just spam his Q Decrepify and his E Torment on you to low your health. What makes Swain hard to counter sometimes its his ultimate Ravenous Flock which deals some aoe damage to neraby targets (prioritizing Champions]] and heals him for 50% of the damage dealt, which you can easily counter with your Seastone Trident, again you can greatly reduce Swain's healing income and his ultimate becomes 'useless', just deals damage. So avoid his Nevermove, get some good position, engage with your Chum the Waters for some slow (precious time), then nuke him with Urchin Strike+ Seastone Trident on. Use Playful / Trickster to run away if you're too close from a turret or in a dangerous situation.



Well these are the champions I consider to be the easiest to play against when using Fizz, of course there are other squishy or slow champions with same limitations as these ones listed, but I believe these are the ones that shouldn't give you any hard time.

Fizz: The Tidal Trickster

Fizz: The Tidal Trickster

Fizz: The Tidal Trickster

Here I'll show the skill sequence I belive to be the best one when playing Fizz. Regardless the way you want to play Fizz, either tanky or assassin, or even another style you want, the skill sequence should be same, so here it is:

Fizz: The Tidal Trickster

Well here, the runes setup will depend on how you are willing to play Fizz. If you want to go for Assassin setup you should have some rune list, different from the one you have for Tanky Fizz.

Fizz: The Tidal Trickster

Fizz's masteries tree is pretty much the same, regardless of the way you're playing him, there's only a small change that I'll talk about below.

Fizz: The Tidal Trickster

If you control well your Playful / Trickster skill, your positioning is good and feel confident on running away from ganks or dangerous situations with just Playful / Trickster here's my suggestion for the ideal summoner's spells:





There are some alternatives to the other 2 spells, I believe those are the ones that will benefit more your game when playing Fizz, although there are some other possibilities:

Fizz: The Tidal Trickster

Well, since Fizz is a meele/mage assassin champion, if you find yourself facing a ranged AP carry, you may have some troubles farming, due to enemy's range poke. So I advice keeping your distance and farming safely. Fizz has low base attack damage which makes last hit minions no easy, so here's where Seastone Trident comes, this skill deals some extra magic damage over time depending on enemies (minions or champions) health, this makes your farming easier, so here's a reason why I advice maxing Seastone Trident as soon as possible. Playful / Trickster is a good skill to farm as well, since it deals AOE damage.
So, basically, you should keep your distance if your opponent is ranged and harasses you too much, if he's squishy you should dash on them and nuke. It's not easy to farm when playing Fizz.

Fizz: The Tidal Trickster

In this section I'll discusse and tell everything about the builds I adopt when playing Fizz, both tanky build and assassin build. I'll suggest some alternative items as well, and at last I'll post the builds I believe to be the best ones for Fizz.

I suggest starting with Boots and 3 Health Potion since it will will give you some adittional movement speed, that'll work good with your Nimble Fighter. Buy those 3 Health Potion so you can have some early sustain.

Well, if things are going well for you and you got some nice cs and even some kills, the first time you recall (around 10mins) you should buy Sheen, this is a core item on Fizz's build, because it will give you some mana sustain, and some extra 25 ability power. If you're having an hard time and you're cs isnt enough to buy Sheen at once, I suggest you buy Amplifying Tome and a couple Mana Potions.

Once you're done with Sheen, catch up with some more cs and some kills (you can easily gank with Fizz), you need to gather some more 1610 golds in order to finish your early game build. So once you go it, go finish your boots, upgraded them to Sorcerer's Shoes and you're abilities will hurt your foes even more, due to those extra 20 magic penetration. You should be able to get a Blasting Wand as well. Now you're done with your Early Game build (note that some of this items will be used in later mid/end game items).

Well Fizz's first core item is Lich Bane, due to the flat ammount of Ability Power it gives (+80), a boost in magic resist (+30), some mana sustain (+350), and it'll even boost your movement speed by 8%. But the best thing here is, it keeps Sheen's effect that will still work with your abilites, specially with your Seastone Trident and Urchin Strike. So finish this item as soon as possible.

This is the 2nd core item in Fizz's builds, because it'll boost your powers dramatically, you'll have some more extra 140 AP and 30% more AP. Since this is a very expensive item, you wont probably build it at once, so start with a early Needlessly Large Rod, then go for Blasting Wand, get some more cs and kills and you'll need more 1140 golds to finish your Rabadon's Deathcap

This Item here will give Fizz some important +500 health, which is good cause Fizz is very squishy. The second good thing about this item is those +80 ability power, which will turn you even more powerful. Then you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter's passive which will slow your enemies everytime you hit them with any of your abilities. Since its another expensive item (3105 golds) build it separatly, start with Giant's Belt, go for Blasting Wand and finally Rylai's Crystal Scepter.

Since Fizz is an assassin and we're building it to act like on, you'll need some good magic penetration, and nothing better than Void Staff. By now (with all you previous items) you should have around 350/400 AP, so now you can go for some more good extra 70 ability and most important, +40% magic penetration, so I suggest you buy Void Staff once you're done with all the previous items. This will turn your Fizz even more lethal.

Athene's Unholy Grail can be a very good item for Fizz since it boost some stats, such as magic resist (+40), some extra ability power (+90) and most important, it gives you some awesome mana sustain with +15 mana regen and has two awesome passive effects. The first one gives you 15% cooldown reduction, which will let you spam your abilities. The second one is about mana regen. You restore 12% of your maximum mana everytime you get a kill or an assist, and it'll increase your mana regeneration by 1% per 1% of mana missing. (e.g: if you miss 90% of your mana, your mana regeneration will increase by 90%.)

Zhonya's Hourglass can be an alternative item, it gives you some good flat ammount of AP (+100), increases your armor, making you more tankier and resistent to ad based champions, and has a very useful passive which allows you to dive or even initiate team fights, just use it wisely. If you want to take Zhonya's Hourglass, I suggest you trade it for Athene's Unholy Grail.

This can another alternative item for Fizz. It's a pretty good item, duo to its effects. It'll give you some extra 50 ability power and it has an awesome aura which will give you and nearby allied champions (including you) extra 30 Ability Power and extra 20% spell vamp, which works great on Fizz becuse, due to the low cooldowns on your abilities, you can spam them, deal damage, and heal yourself. If you want this, I suggest once again, you replace Athene's Unholy Grail.

Well this was a very used item on AP assassins like Fizz. This item is used to assassinate enemy ap carries, it gives you an awesome ammount of 100 Ability Power, and when you active this item's effect, you will deal health based damage to your enemy. This increases with the ammount of ability power you build on your champion. I suggest replacing Athene's Unholy Grail once again.

Well this new season 3 item is fantastic! Iceborn Gauntlet is a very complete item, so I'll start by suggesting you replace Lich Bane for this item. This item has that awesome Sheen passive, and since it has Glacial Shroud as primary item, it will boost your mana by 500, will give a boost of armor (+60) and ability power (+40). You'll have a cooldown reduction of 15% as well, but what's interesting here is the passive. As I said before, it keeps the Sheen's effect but increasing the damage from 100% to 125% on the next physical attack to all enemies around you and will slow them by 35%, has a 2 seconds cooldown.

Here's another great season 3 item. An upgrade of our well known Haunting Guise. This item keeps Haunting Guise's porpose, which is giving you magic penetration. Those extra 200 health were kept, ability power was increased to 70, and now instead of 1, it has 2 passives. 1st one will grant you +15 magic penetration. The 2nd one is the big deal here, everytime you use an ability on your opponents you will cause them to burn for 5% of their current HP or 10% if their movement is impaired (slow, stun, snare, etc...) for 3 seconds. This passive has no cooldown, so just SPAM YOUR ABILITIES on your foes!

Well in this section I'll show you a different way to build Fizz, a not very coomon way, cause you don't actually see Fizz's full potential, but some sort of 'utility Fizz'.

Well the start is a bit different from the assassin build, you start with Null-Magic Mantle and 2 Health Potions, this will grant you an high magic resistance against your enemuy ap carry. And those 2 potions will give you the early sustain you need to keep yourself in the lane until you get some good gold ammount to buy your next item.

Catalyst the Protector

Once you reach, at least, 1200 gold, recall and get a very important item on your tanky build, Catalyst The Protector. It's a very complete item for anyone who wants to build a tanky ap carry, this will give a flat a ammount of HP (+290) as well a flat ammount of mana (+325). And this item's passive will help you througout the game since everytime you level up you recover 250 HP and 200 Mana over 8 seconds. This will give you even more sustain.

Well this is your last early game core item. Your porpose when building Tanky Fizz is not to really kill but neutralize your enemy's ap carry and be some sort of utility ap carry for your team, so a good way to reduce the magic damage you take on that mid lane is buying Mercury's Treads, this will give you extra 25 magic resist and will reduce all crowd control effects time on you by 35%. So get them once you're done with Catalyst the Protector.

Rod of Ages is the first core item on Fizz's tanky build. Since you have Catalyst The Protector for now, buy Blasting Wand or just get 1710 golds to finish your Rod of Ages. This item will make you tankier and give you some mana and hp sustain since it boost you mana and hp stats by 450 each. The passive will increase your HP (+18) , mana (+20) and Ability Power (+2) per minute, up to a max of 10 stacks. And each time you level up you will restore 150 HP and 200 Mana over 8 seconds. So get this item as soon as possible, it'll give you a boost in sustain.

Well this item is used as well, when building a tanky Fizz. So once you're done with Rod of Ages, buy a Blasting Wand for more AP or get a Giant's Belt if you need more HP. Despite the item you choose to buy, the final item is the same, you should buy Rylai's Crystal Scepter. This will boost your HP, making you more tanky, will give a flat ammount of AP (+80) and this items passive will work good with your abilities, specially your ulti when used in a team fight, you'll manage to slow your opponents whenever you hit them with an ability and that'll buy some time for your team mates to engage on the enemies.

The last mid game core item in Tanky Fizz's build is Abyssal Mask. Since Fizz's is a meele ap carry, you'll find yourself deep in the team fight, right in the middle of your enemies. Nothing better than Abyssal Mask to drain their magic resistance and help you and your team dealing extra magic damage to them. So start with Negatron Cloak for extra 45 magic resistance and finish your Abyssal Mask as soon as possible. Your AP will increase by 70 and your passive aura will reduce 20 magic resist in a 600 radius range.

Get this item once you're done with your mid game (core items) build. This item will boost your armor and make you less vulnerable to the enemy's ad carry. This item will upgrade into a late game item, we'll see it next.

Here's another primary item that will later upgrade into a final build item. Warden's Mail will boost your armor (+50) and will give you a passive that will work great if you are attacked. It slows your opponents attack speed by 20% everytime you're attacked.

Well your Chain Vest will now be upgraded to Guardian Angel. This is end game build item. Now you will have a boost of +50 armor and +30 magic resistance, making less vulnerable to both ap and ad carries. But what really matters here is Guardian Angel's passive, which will give you 'another life'. This will be great in team fights, since you can use your ulti to engage and you can probably die. But care, this items cooldown is 5 minutes, so time it wisely.

Well this is the last item in Thanky Fizz's build. This will come when you upgrade your Warden's Mail. Pretty good item in Fizz's build, it will give you +70 armor boost, extra 500 HP and has an awesome passive and an active effect. First one is almost the same as Warden's Mail but you slow enemy's movement speed as well, for 1.5 seconds. The active effect will allow you to slow all enemies in a 500 radius range by 35% for 2 seconds plus 1 second for each 100 armor and magic resistance combined. So get this item once you're done with Guardian Angel.

Well since the Tanky Item build is an alternative build to the 'tradicional' ap carry/assassin Fizz build, there are no alternative items for this one. You can change the items you like, but in my opinion this is the best utility/tank Fizz you can build.

Fizz: The Tidal Trickster

Fizz: The Tidal Trickster

Fizz: The Tidal Trickster

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Fizz: The Tidal Trickster

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