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.
Be ready to dodge Shen's taunt and punish him if he misses.
Once Shen reaches level 6, watch out for his global-range ultimate, which can turn fights quickly.
The stats shown on this page feature several influential Fizz versus Shen matchup statistics that can help you figure out the differences between the pair. As an example, Fizz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Shen’s ratio of NaN, showing that Fizz may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Shen. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Fizz normally has a much larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Shen. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Fizz usually wins when trying to fight Shen, with a 51.4% win rate. As a result, Fizz makes a good counter for Shen.
While Fizz does have a higher winrate than Shen, when they face off with one another, Fizz also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Fizz into Shen.
Furthermore, Fizz also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Shen. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Fizz vs Shen matchups, Fizz is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Fizz is a decent counter to Shen. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Fizz against Shen.
To truly master Fizz to counter Shen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Fizz typically racks up a similar amount of CS as Shen. Champs who typically 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, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Fizz versus Shen build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Fizz used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better versus Shen than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Fizz boasted an average winrate of 51.4% when countering Shen with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Shen as Fizz, Fizz players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Fizz vs Shen matchups, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.4% win rate overall.
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