Fizz vs Brand Counter Pick

Nimble Fighter subtracts a flat amount from every source of damage Fizz takes, and Brand’s kit is assembled almost entirely from small repeated instances: Blaze burns over four seconds and stacks three times, Pyroclasm bounces up to five times, Conflagration spreads to nearby enemies. Flat reduction is worth most against precisely that shape, and the record shows it, with Fizz winning at 59.8% across 239 games on patch 16.13.1.

The second problem for Brand is targeting. Playful / Trickster lifts Fizz onto his spear and out of the game for a moment, which answers a Sear aimed at an ablaze target and the delayed detonation of Pillar of Flame with the same button. His stun only exists against an enemy already burning, so the order of his casts matters more than the damage on his sheet. Brand’s job is to hold 550 range against 175 and never let Urchin Strike, a dash that applies on-hit effects, connect; his frame gives no second chance, 570 health and 24 armor at level 1 becoming 2,355 and 95.4 at 18, against 640 and 26 becoming 2,442 and 104.2. Fizz is listed as mixed damage, complicating a single-resistance answer, while Chum the Waters attaches to whoever touches it and slows before the shark arrives. Move speed reads 340 to 335, difficulty 4 to 6. Kits: Fizz and Brand.