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.
Poppy can stop nearby enemies from dashing with Steadfast Presence.
When Poppy starts to spin her hammer, she is charging Keeper's Verdict.
You can step on Poppy's shield to deny it from her.
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some vital Fizz vs. Poppy counter statistics that may help us understand the differences and similarities between the two. Fizz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Poppy’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Fizz may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Poppy. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Fizz typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Poppy. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Fizz usually fairs equally well when playing against Poppy, with a 49.8% win rate. Therefore, Fizz makes an ok counter for Poppy.
While Fizz does have a lower winrate than Poppy, when facing one another, Fizz also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Fizz into Poppy.
Additionally, Fizz also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Poppy. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Fizz vs Poppy matchups, Poppy is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Fizz is a somewhat poor counter to Poppy. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Fizz against Poppy.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Fizz to counter Poppy during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Fizz usually accumulates more CS compared to Poppy. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Fizz versus Poppy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Fizz used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Poppy than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Fizz boasted an average win rate of 49.8% battling Poppy with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Poppy as Fizz, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Fizz vs Poppy clashes, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.8% win rate overall.
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