Fizz Counters Classic 26.22

Count your presses, not your cooldowns. One cast drops the other three spells by a second, and Arcane Mastery does not care whether that cast landed on a champion or a minion. Overload piles on permanent cooldown reduction that climbs with each point, so farming the wave still buys Rune Prison back.

Price Rune Prison before you throw it. The cage starts at sixty mana and reaches a hundred once maxed. Your maximum mana is not dead weight, because both Rune Prison and Overload scale their damage off it. Nothing else you own holds him in place.

Desperate Power ranks up in two directions: the window lengthens and the wait shortens. Open it as Fizz throws Chum the Waters, since the fish slows you if it sticks, and the shark is not instant. Every spell you cast inside that buff splashes onto nearby enemies. When the window shuts, so does the speed.

Chum the Waters can leave its fish hovering over terrain or attach it to you. The shark erupts around that fish after a delay. Against the terrain fish, a target beyond the area and within Shadow Dance's reach lets Akali leave the eruption point. A latched fish centers that eruption on you instead.

Against Fizz, a basic attack's physical portion meets the reduction from Nimble Fighter. An exchange below Twin Disciplines' Ability Power threshold lacks its listed magic addition. Judge the trade by those two damage types. Once that threshold is met, Twin Disciplines can add a separate magic portion to Akali's basic attacks.

Urchin Strike carries Fizz through his target and applies on-hit effects. Twilight Shroud slows enemies inside its smoke, so a field left on the approach does not slow Fizz after he crosses beyond it. Read where the run-through finishes, then center the smoke on that side for the next exchange inside it.