@any rioter S3 Diamond Fizz main, "Tank Assassin Fizz update"
With these new changes, Fizz goes from his one shot + consistent damage w, to a one shot wonder if applied correctly. Without ult you probably won't do much unless you stand beside a carry begging them not to kill you while your passive cooks. After you're able to hit your w, you're done! Leave! It's not like there's anything else he can do. So basically, at best case, he's a bit better/around the same, but at worst case, he does literally nothing. Can't do his damage on the outskirts with w, can't poke quickly and retreat.
That's fine and all, no one liked Fizz doing that in tandem with his e. The thing is that now Fizz's W does insane base damage and resets his auto attacks. As well, it gives him easy last hitting potential and mana sustain in lane. His ult at max range gives him a large (HUGE) aoe initiation for you. What does this all mean? I'm going top lane and building tri force sunfire and dark seal. He has an auto reset for triforce and ferver, and his initiation is way better now (it's also easier to land). Max cdr and tankiness and you'll be doing tons of damage with your one damage item in tri force and your w.
I don't want to use E for damage in either case because as ap Fizz, I'm probably gonna die and you probably won't in most cases, and what's the point in slowing something you can't kill? If you're running just double E. You can't keep poking with W anymore after using the slow. You can use E to wait out w's cooking time, but this alone really takes away from Fizz's gameplay style (as a disgusting main I can say this), as well as makes you super vulnerable, especially when you already had to hit them with a glowing "I'm going to dive you right here right now" button in your shark.
As tank it's my aoe slow and "stop running from me" button. I feel like this update is going in the wrong direction, and just leans towards fizz going tank again. In fact, not only this, but leblanc as well. Not as a tank, but having assassins cook spells on targets, and having them stick on a target for hours to deal damage? What happened to get in and get out? Also, Leblanc's recommended says RoA now? Why not just add Rylai's too? . . .
will be stronger than ap Fizz. Potentially he is a great mid laner with this kit, but his cooldown is just way too high for a squishy meele damage dealer to compete
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. Maybe the cd is acceptable on 40% cdr but you won't have it in a dragon fight where you are disconnected for like 8 seconds after you used your rotation. 8 second on a maxed w is a joke. Ap Fizz can't live with this, tank Fizz can however. 4 way to get rid of tank Fizz: