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.
Spread out when you see Sona so she can't make your entire team dance.
Kill Sona first, as she will heal up her team if left alone for too long.
The stats shown here show some influential Fizz against Sona matchup statistics that may help you understand the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Fizz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Sona’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Fizz may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Sona. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Fizz normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Sona. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Fizz usually wins when facing off against Sona, with a 52.9% win rate. Thus, Fizz makes a good counter for Sona.
While Fizz does have a higher win rate than Sona, when on opposite teams, Fizz also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Fizz into Sona.
Additionally, Fizz has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Sona. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Fizz vs Sona matchups, Fizz is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Fizz is a good counter to Sona. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Fizz against Sona.
If you would like to truly master Fizz in order to counter Sona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Fizz most often picks up much more CS as Sona. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts 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 shown on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Fizz versus Sona build include Lich Bane, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Fizz bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better countering Sona than with most other common item sets. In fact, Fizz had an average winrate of 52.9% when countering Sona with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Sona as Fizz, you 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 runes that we analyzed for Fizz vs Sona counterpicks, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.9% winrate overall.
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