Taliyah vs Fizz Counter Pick

Nimble Fighter reduces every source of damage by a flat amount and lets Fizz move through units, a poor combination to face with a poke-based kit. Taliyah fires Threaded Volley as a series of rocks rather than one large hit, so a flat reduction takes a share out of each one, and the Worked Ground it leaves limits how often she can repeat the cast in the same place. The record over 269 games on patch 16.13.1 is 41.64% for her, rated Hard.

Points that decide the exchanges:

• Playful / Trickster makes Fizz untargetable on the way up, which invalidates a committed Seismic Shove or the follow-up meant to land after it.
• Urchin Strike is a dash through the target, so it can trigger Unraveled Earth, whose mines detonate and stun on anything that dashes through them.
• Chum the Waters attaches to the first champion it touches and slows, and Taliyah has no dash to leave the marked ground before the shark arrives.

The stat gap is wide. Fizz opens with 640 health and 26 armor and finishes at 2,442 and 104.2; Taliyah opens with 550 and 18 and finishes at 2,318 and 97.9. He also moves at 335 against 330 and attacks from 175 units against 525, so the 350-unit spacing is the single advantage she has to protect all game.