Talk:Fizz/@comment-11094777-20131002155827/@comment-7785527-20131010224343

In the words of Maulface, a 2500 elo Fizz main.

"Unlike popular belief, you have to max E first. It is your waveclear, and without it you will be farming under your tower the entire game. What you'll be doing most of the game past level 9 is autoattacking each of the melee minions to about half, and then E'ing the entire wave to clear it instantly. You may receive some counterattack while doing this, but if you control your motion while in mid air (not activating trickster) you may be able to land on the enemy champion. This means you don't kill the melee creeps, which will allow you to Q out of the engagement.

Maxing E lets you be able to farm, and you'll need to waveclear as fast as possible to have a presence in lanes other than your own.

Maxing E will also give you a powerful slow that can be used in ganking lanes, and the decreased cooldown can allow you to get away from sticky situations. Don't max W. Its so much better to max E and be able to survive teamfights with the extreme slow and short cooldown it gives."