Congratulations Riot.. You made a Leblanc with sustained damage
Fizz still has to be one of the hardest snowballing champs in the game. Where do I start with this guy, his E is arguably the best basic ability in the game, he has an insane amount of burst, his w give him more DPS than an ADC, and when he gets an hourglass, he becomes more slippery than a bar of soap.
Fizz is on of those champions that if he gets started, cannot be stopped; the mage version of Fiora. He is a very good solo que champion, and the game needs champions like that. The thing is though, a champion shouldn't have burst, escape, an untargetable, sustained damage, gap close, CC, and a built in DFG. Fizz is very weak pre 6, but if he can get to that point, kiss the game good bye. Also, he could be behind, but one kill brings him right back into the game.
A few games back I was beating fizz in lane. One kill up and ~30 farm. I 1v1 at lvl 5 and because of the insane base damage on his E he killed me before he got to half health (I was playing Yasuo). Some time progresses and he is 1-3-0... He 1v3's and gets a triple kill. It wasnt even a tower dive.. Just landed the shark and it was all over.
I would rather have fizz be able to one shot any champ, but have nothing after that instead of being able to 90% any champ in the game and let his DoT kill you, then processed in wrecking the rest of the team's anus. There is no counter play to this guy. He can e right out of hourglass, so you cant kill him, then his q cooldown is so short he can q > e > q > hourglass > q > e > q. And its not like that whole time 4 people are trying to kill him he ins't doing damage... Oh no, by that time two of those four people are probably dead.
As said before, fizz's E is arguable the best basic ability in the game. Even if it did no damage at all, it would still be a little OP. Let alone having a short cooldown (4.2 seconds with 40% cdr) and a 0.75 ap ratio, you know what.. screw the "arguably", it is the best basic ability in the game. Any way, it should have high utility, or high damage... Not both. This is what makes him waaaay too slippery and almost zero counterplay. Either remove the untargerable or nerf the damage. The cooldown needs to be brought up quite a bit too.
Let's say you manage to survive his burst because you were forced to buy a lot of MR to do so (which doesn't seem to help much).. He can walk away and let that W kill you. It does ~900 damage whilst dueling him... WTF HE IS AN ASSASSIN! Assassin have really high damage and cooldowns with little to no sustained.. Why does this guy have it?!
Riot supposedly nerfed Fizz, but it sure doesn't seem like it.
I feel like I haven't gotten my points out quite well enough. Any comments or questions will be answered