Talk:Fizz/@comment-25168242-20140711221353/@comment-15244341-20140718113343

Fizz is a viable Assassin in a meta full of mid Utility Mages, and Assassins>Utility Mages. Even more now with the MR Athene's gave being reduced. Also Zhonyas is pretty much mandatory on him, and proper use of it means you have an extra E to get away since E's CD is pretty low. That allows a fair amount of invulnerabilities to dodge spells like Ori's ult or Morg's bindings.

Fizz has the same issue as all assassins (except, probably, Zed): he is designed to have low counterplay (get in, get a kill) and have that small amount of counterplay being dependant on either fast reaction time or building against him (read it as buy MR, which most mids won't do as part of a standard build).

That said, he suffers against lane bullies, even if they are mages, and many other assassins give him a hard time pre 6.