Vi vs Fizz Counter Pick

Vi loses this jungle matchup at 44.8% across 174 games on patch 16.13.1, and one ability carries most of the explanation. Playful / Trickster hops Fizz onto his spear and makes him untargetable, which cancels Cease and Desist, an ultimate that has to reach its target before it can knock it up and slam it back down.

Everything else reads favorably on paper. Vi carries 655 base health against 640, 30 armor against 26, and 340 movement speed against 335, while Denting Blows breaks her opponent’s armor and grants her attack speed. Blast Shield charges over time and triggers on any ability hit, which is meaningful sustain through a long skirmish, and her difficulty rating of 4 is among the more approachable in the role. Both spend mana, and 63 base attack damage against 58 wins a straight exchange of punches.

The problem is that Fizz deals mixed damage and Nimble Fighter subtracts a flat amount from every incoming source, which hurts a champion whose output arrives as repeated physical hits rather than a single burst. Seastone Trident bleeds magic damage through her 32 magic resist over several seconds, and Chum the Waters attaches a slow before the shark erupts. The counterplay is baiting the untargetable window with Vault Breaker before committing the ultimate, a demanding read against a champion rated 6.