The Fizz update on PBE will make many champions useless against him
So on the PBE Fizz's passive is being changed. Instead of having a set reduction to basic attacks, it will be a flat 4 damage reduction to ALL damage that scales with 1% of his AP and is capped at 50% reduction of damage he takes.
At first that seems fine but if you consider champions that rely on DoT abilities, Fizz will just steamroll them now simply thanks to his passive.
His passive will also make any DoT item against him pretty bad, for example
and
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Think about it, Champions like
,
,
,
, hell even someone like
or
and especially
will suffer from it.
Fizz could literally counterpick any DoT based champion, buy a
and have his secondary rune page as Resolve with Second Wind and Fizz would literally heal from having a DoT put on him early game. Both Second Wind and Doran Shield healing would constantly refresh while the DoT is active and his passive would make the early game DoT abilities do next to no damage to him literally causing early game DoT abilities to heal him.
You may think I'm exaggerating but especially in the early game DoT abilities might tick between 7-12ish damage which will be cut in half by fizz's passive and give an assassin that is supposed to have a weak and punishable early game one of the most powerful early games VS any DoT champion in the game which will allow him to easily and safely get to his mid game power spikes much earlier because a DoT champion wont be able to keep him away from minions early game but fizz would be able to easily bully them early game.
If they are dead-set on this new passive they need to make it have a reduced effect on any DoT abilities.
Or if they want to give him damage reduction to all damage, just make it percentage based.
Just to say this again here, Fizz's new passive will make him a op counterpick to DoT champions because each tick of the DoT will be reduced by his passive, if Fizz picks up a
and has Second Wind from Resolve, because of his new passive, he will easily outheal the damage early game which will allow him to basically have a free laning phase at least until lv 6 which will allow him to easily farm out minions and bully the DoT champions, preventing them from CSing. Giving an assassin a powerful early game removes the assassin's biggest hurdle which is GETTING to his first item.
Sure against champions that don't have DoT's this new passive will have minimal effects, but if you go in ranked and pick
for example, you would have to ban fizz because if not he will demolish cassio early, get to his first item easily, then just snowball from there.
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