Recent Fizz Buffs from the POV of a Fizz Main

First I want to start by saying this: Fizz was overbuffed, IMO. He feels a little too strong right now and had a 53% WR almost immediately when the new patch hit with a decent pick rate. However, his overall WR has already lowered and started to even back out. Currently on OP.GG Fizz has a 50.22% overall WR in the midlane and is WAY behind champs like Talon (53%), Ahri (52.7%), Vlad (51.6%), Ekko (51%), Oriana (50.4%) and Zed (50.7%) who all have HIGHER win rates and HIGHER pick rates. Granted, I will note that high mmr Fizz WR is still around 53%.

However, I also want to address the other posts that keep coming up. The people who say "why was he buffed", "Fizz buffed again, wtf Rito", etc.

These posts don't make any sense. Fizz wasn't "buffed again" he was hit with a SUPER hard nerf last patch which made him completely useless. Anyone who says that Fizz was "perfectly fine" last patch and didn't need to be buffed is, quite frankly, full of it.

Far too often people tend to see a current issue (Fizz being too strong due to 8.15 changes) and completely make up other details (in this case Fizz not needing the buff) to strengthen their opinion against this issue. Anybody who says that Fizz was fine before 8.15 clearly did 0 research and doesn't play the champ. Fizz had a 47% WR in high ELO and an even lower WR below plat. Riot reworked Fizz W in 8.14 to be a "halfway" revert to the old Fizz W - like it was before the assasin class rework. Think of it like the recent Leblanc and Rengar reverts, but just not alllllll the way back to the original.

Fizz went from a 52% WR and low pick rate in 8.13 to a 44% WR in one day. Over the course of the patch Fizz slowly climbed back up to a 46% / 47% WR and stagnated there. He lost almost every game past 25 mins due to no longer having his burst damage W and had a much weaker laning phase than before (he already has one of the weakest pre-6 laning phases in the whole game). In order to do the same damage of his old W, he had to activate W, hit you, then auto attack you 4 more times. The ability became useless for an assasin.

If one of your champs was reworked and dropped 5-6% WR, had their laning phase gimped and their late game identity taken away you would all DEMAND for it to be buffed.

I understand Fizz is a generally hated champion, but you guys have to be realistic.

Riot tried to fix Fizz, but just like they underdid his power in 8.14 they now overdid it in 8.15. He will be nerfed next patch, most likely having his ult damage slightly lowered at all ranks and MAYBE a very slight nerf to his W active damage. But if they go too far back we will be in the same scenario as 8.14 where Fizz was completely useless. And remember, his WR is only sitting at 50.22% right now as it is already evening out as the patch goes on.

Typed on phone, please forgive spelling errors.