Fizz vs Riven Counter Pick

Riven pays nothing to fight. Her resource reads None, so Broken Wings, Ki Burst and Valor come out as often as cooldowns allow, while Fizz has to budget Mana across Urchin Strike, Seastone Trident and Playful / Trickster. The record follows that asymmetry: Fizz holds 43.0% of 423 mid games on patch 16.13.1, a sample large enough to be stable and a result that stays negative. Her difficulty rating of 8 against his 6 is the main reason the figure is not lower still.

• Stats: 630 HP, 33 armor and 64 AD at level one, with 340 Move Speed against 335, enough to walk Fizz down once Ki Burst connects.
• Damage type: Riven is purely physical, so an early armor component is efficient, while the mixed Fizz profile splits across both resistances.
• Cooldowns: Valor blocks incoming damage and Runic Blade charges her next attacks, so short trades belong to her.

The untargetable frame on Playful / Trickster is the practical tool, held for the third cast of Broken Wings and its knockback rather than spent on the approach. Nimble Fighter’s flat reduction does real work against a combo made of many small hits, and Fizz ends with more Health at level 18, 2,442 to 2,330, although her 107.8 armor edges his 104.2. Blade of the Exile adds Attack Damage and range late, so waiting for scaling does not rescue the matchup either.