Talk:Fizz/@comment-6385806-20140616171421/@comment-5211662-20140711004914

Tristana's Q does not scale with AD at all. It is an attack speed steroid, which is not the same thing. This and the fact that her abilities, despite scaling only with AD, provide utility (W is an escape, E can be used to hinder the enemy's sustain, and R can be used to disengage or deal a finishing blow) are the reason why Tristana is viable as an AD champion.

Despite the name, you don't build Fizz with a lot of AD items like an AD caster (such as Zed or Riven or Kha'Zix) or crits, AS and armor penetration like a typical ADC or like Master Yi and Tryndamere.

AD Fizz is a bruiser, or off-tank. He builds a Blade of the Ruined King and a Trinity Force and then builds tanky. You build him like you would build a Jax, or Irelia. You rely on his auto-attacks applying health-based damage on the enemy champion, while tanking their hits. The main advantage that AD Fizz has over AP Fizz is his survivability, but AD Fizz also has other advantages, such as having mixed damage that cannot be countered by building HP, and not being reliant on his abilities for damage. For example, he can always save his E to escape, and he can always use his ult for purposes other than killing squishies, such as: initiate teamfights, escape, or lock down an target.

If needed to, you can even build AD Fizz as a full-tank, save for Blade of the Ruined King (you really need this item due to its synergy with Fizz' W), similar to Shyvana. Instead of Trinity Force, you build Iceborn Gauntlet. And then builds only defensive items.

AD Fizz also works because the AD items that Fizz typically uses, can be built alongside defensive items, while not hindering Fizz' damage. AP Fizz cannot do that, he needs to build full AP with no defensive items apart from Zhonya's Hourglass (maybe a Guardian Angel). Fizz could build some tanky AP items alongside defensive items, but this would not work because he would still be reliant on his abilities to do damage, but since he would not have that much AP, he would do mediocre damage. Since AD Fizz is not reliant on his abilities to do damage, and his W does damage based on the target's missing health, AD Fizz can afford to be built as a tank.