Talk:Fizz/@comment-212.117.1.33-20120215183029/@comment-77.97.134.113-20120217115852

You can buy two (or three if having a really hard time) doran's rings instead of catalyst. That way you gain healh, mana regen independent from leveling up and some nice damage for mid game combined with sorcerer's shoes. Need health regen? Few pots will do - they are very cheap so you would have to buy many of them to make them completely inefficient in build. Buy shoes, and three pots. After first time back buy two doran's wards and two pots. Sometimes one doran is better if you need more pots. This will be enough to stay at lane and farm cash for sorcerer's shoes and Blasting Wand. Fizz is not really UP just a bit on the weak side.

This, of course, depends on who you lane against. When playing normal games or ELO below 1300 you are likely to meet vegetables (not players) that will not know, how to counter Fizz. More experienced players will pick a good counter in chat room or will simply know how to control the lane, which is not hard given Fizz is melee. Riot nerfed his damage completely ignoring the fat he is melee and has no sustain meaning he gets easily counter picked. Health pots or Catalyst must be used to compensate. I would usually go for pots as RoA is almost never my core on burst mages. As Fizz you need to have the ability melt enemy carries in team fights not a lot of HP, which will not save from focus most of the time.