How to win lane as Karma against Fizz · 46.93% win rate (4,409 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
He dives a shield, a root tether, and a speed boost — annoying, but your damage falls off before his patience does.
Track: Fizz's E — Playful / Trickster (16–8s cooldown). The untargetable hop dodges your whole combo — bait it before spending your burst.
Read from Karma's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Fizz.
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | Fizz's dodge-into-all-in combo dominates trades before Karma has tools to punish it. |
| Level 2 | Even / skill | Same pattern holds — Fizz keeps winning the early all-in window. |
| Level 3 | Fizz | Fizz continues to bully with untargetability-enabled combos. |
| Levels 4-5 | Fizz | Fizz's combo damage still edges out Karma's growing poke here. |
| Level 6 | Even / skill | Both ultimates are equally threatening, making this level a fair coinflip. |
| First item | Fizz | Fizz's completed burst item re-establishes his kill-threat all-in. |
| Two+ items | Even / skill | Karma's utility and poke outvalue Fizz's short burst in grouped late-game fights. |
Levels 1-2 are yours — he holds only a 550-range Urchin Strike — but from 3 the phase belongs to Fizz: Playful/Trickster makes him untargetable through your poke, and the follow-up Urchin Strike plus autos lets him all-in you almost risk-free through level 5. Play passively from there, ward for jungler assistance, and don't try to out-trade him in melee range since his kit is built to punish exactly that. Your best tool is disengaging and denying easy CS rather than contesting trades. Expect to concede priority and stabilize on the plates you banked.
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Karma's side, sampled July 2026.
The full Karma vs Fizz report continues with the mid-game plan, the late-game and teamfight plan, every power spike to play around, and the win conditions for both sides — plus cooldown tracking and the live enemy-jungle tracker inside the app.
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Fizz, slightly — Karma wins 46.93% of 4,409 games; winnable with the right plan.
Mostly — Fizz has a small statistical edge (53.07% win rate), but execution decides this lane far more than the pick does.
No — if anything Fizz has the slight edge (Karma wins 46.93%), though it stays close.
Karma takes Arcane Comet on the Sorcery tree with Manaflow Band, Transcendence and Scorch, and Inspiration secondary (Biscuit Delivery and Cosmic Insight) vs Fizz.
Start Doran's Ring + 2 Health Potions and back for Lost Chapter (≈1300g) — the spam war funds itself. Build Blackfire Torch first, then Shadowflame, with Sorcerer's Shoes / Mercury's Treads.
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