Yikes the troll pole is getting buffed.. am I reading this right?

Just, he's doing pretty well in both top lane and support, but he's getting some pretty significant buffs on the PBE. W passive health stacking increased from 2 -> 3 health per small unit (unchanged for large units), and his ult's maximum damage was increased from 300/600/900 to 400/800/1200, with the minimum damage unchanged.

Well, i made a one mistake i vowed i wouldn't make and that is to preemptively talk about a balance change before i actually read what it was. In the end, this really isn't a big deal. Only his early game was slightly buffed to foster a tiny bit more frequent engages or riskier plays (knowing you'd have a dodge skill a bit sooner) while his late game is unaffected.

Yea i, like everyone else, has a problem with Fizz in general but in terms of how lightly they've buffed him, i don't think he'd be the FOTM pick just because of this change. And i don't believe he should be dumpstered just because i don't like playing against him. Play against him long enough and you'd get around his play style and manage to figure out a counter strategy that would keep him at bay.

http://i.memeful.com/media/post/Wwl87wE_700w_0.jpg

clears throat

getting nerfed to hell by riot almost 5 patches in a row while the community was screaming "stop, it's already dead!" and many more who got reworked and then the community who mained them literally and clearly said to riot "we don't like those changes, please revert them", which Riot replied with "Lol how about we change them even more each patch until you like them?" who got changes a while ago to make her more "controlmage type". Don't know much about this one but I saw some angry mains commenting on this patch and the boards to scream their fury against Riot

AP who got "killed" some months ago

The good ol'Turrets, who caused thousands of threads like "wtf are you waiting for to buff turrets riot" to appear on the boards, which caused Riot to literally say "meh, we like them like this ¯_ツ_/¯"

who got changed quite massively in the past patches while noboddy asked to, but hell, it sounded funny to riot so why not?

The whole Assassin rework, which was rated as a pure failure by the community, just got worse and worse each patch (riot litteraly said that this patch was meant to make assassins more "counterable" by giving their combos larger Windows to be countered and to make them generally less "spam all your keys at the same time and it works", but instead they gave more burst and speed to assassin's...logic?)

, who is some of the champs with the biggest potential to be a great character to player, while not being one at all at the moment. I don't remember Riot ever mentioning them outisde of their "buff and nerf" routine on them, but hell, I do see people complaining about their awfully wasted potential

Rotating game modes, which makes every community members say "that was supposed to give diversity to featured gamemodes, so why the hell Riot are you making them more and more repetitive?"

The very numerous number of champions who should've get a new skin already

Normally I would've mention Urf too, but it seems we'll have ARURF soon, but I doubt we'll ever see it again after this soooo....

lethality, which is already too damn strong and that already causes many tears among the community, but that keeps getting stronger and stronger

getting reworked (he already got reworked and was already somewhat healthy, people were asking for Warwick and Urgot's rework but no, cupidity from Riot to say "no, we are working on ryze for no reasons at all. hahah")

isn't really mentionned these days, but that's the reason why I'm talking about him: he is dead. The community just forgot about him, and that's whats gonna happen to every champs who got reworked by riot in class updates and got therefore destroyedL they'll either be forgotten like skarner, or broken enought to need either a huuuuuge nerf (then getting ignored) or needing a whole new rework

... no need to explain

I could mention a lot of other things that Riot did wrong. I could also mention how the community reacted very badly to all of those. But that's more than enought to realise that Riot listen to it's community when it wants to: if what the community tells isn't approved by them, they'll just ignore it

So she can poke the crap out of you early lane and bully/abuse you like mad.

She can poke the crap out of Fizz... if he just sits there and takes it.

She can flash your ult if shes good enough.

Flash has a 300 seconds cooldown. Fizz's ult begins at 100. Not to mention Fizz can dive Syndra at any point where she has less than ~80% HP.

You are left having to E her stun which means timing and guessing right with a good reaction time and that isn't always possible.

Are you telling me that using the trollpole is hard? Oh my god.

Any decent Syndra has an early zhonya though.

Zhonya is a crappy situational item. Syndra will always rush Morellonomicon and Sorcs meaning the earliest she can buy and use Zhonya is around 20 minute mark ASSUMING she wasn't completely shat on in the lane.

If you don't E her stun, she's going to ult you anyways.

Unless you aren't in melee range, she spends half the duration of the stun getting into the range of the ult. Add ~0.25s cast time and you will easily be able to dodge most of it.

Tell me at what point does Fizz win this matchup outside of low ELO?

In EVERY ELO, son. Fizz vs Syndra matchup has an average winrate difference of 5% in favour of Fizz. In Diamond+ it's 4.5%. Platinum is the only ELO where it falls below 4% and is currently at 3.9%.

Yea mate let's see a Syndra running away from a Fizz. Or a Kassadin. Or an Ahri.

The best she can do is try to burst them down. But Fizz E completely negates any burst, so Fizz wins the matchup. It's that simple.

And before anyone tells me Fizz loses pre 6 because Syndra can poke him down - Fizz can all in at level 3 by Qing Syndra (or a nearby minion) autoing, pressing E to dodge anything the Syndra throws at him, and then proccing the W proc. If she's low enough, he can ignite. If not, he can back away, knowing he won the trade.

Fizz will surely be down cs between evenly skilled players, but the thing is Fizz doesn't need the items for the level 6 all in. He hits his shark on Syndra? Game over.

Not having cast animation on 2 out of 4 spells isn't going to help when your enemy has TWO dashes, has higher movements speed and ignores unit collisions.