League of Legends - Anivia Champion Strategy and Item Build Guide

Anivia

Basic Information

Champion Stats

Lore

Skills

Icon	Description
	Rebirth (Static Cooldown: 240)INNATE: Upon dying, Anivia will revert into an egg. If the egg can survive for six seconds, she is gloriously reborn.
	Flash Frost (Target Range: 1075, Collision Radius: 125, Effect Radius: 225, Speed: 850, Cost: 80/90/100/110/120 Mana, Cooldown: 12/11/10/9/8)ACTIVE: Anivia brings her wings together and summons a sphere of ice that flies towards her opponents, chilling and damaging anyone in its path. When the sphere explodes it does moderate damage in a radius, stunning anyone in the area.A massive chunk of ice flies toward target location, dealing 60/85/110/135/160 (+40% Ability Power) magic damage. At the end of its range or if Anivia activates the spell again, the missile detonates, doing 60/85/110/135/160 (+40% Ability Power) magic damage in a small area and stunning units for 1.1/1.2/1.3/1.4/1.5 seconds.Enemies damaged by Flash Frost are also slowed by [0]% for 3 seconds.
	Crystallize (Target Range: 1000, Cost: 70 Mana, Cooldown: 17 )ACTIVE: Anivia condenses the moisture in the air into an impassable wall of ice to block all movement. The wall only lasts a short duration before it melts.Anivia summons an impassable wall of ice 400/500/600/700/800 units wide, blocking all movement. The wall lasts for 5 seconds before it melts.
	Frostbite (Target Range: 650, Speed: 1600, Cost: 50/60/70/80/90 Mana, Cooldown: 4)ACTIVE: With a flap of her wings, Anivia blasts a freezing gust of wind at her target, dealing a low amount of damage. If the target was recently stunned by Flash Frost or damaged by a fully formed Glacial Storm, the damage they take is doubled.Anivia blasts her target with a freezing wind, dealing 50/75/100/125/150 (+50% Ability Power) magic damage. If a target was recently stunned by Anivia or damaged by a fully formed Glacial Storm, they take double damage.
	Glacial Storm (Target Range: 750, Effect Radius: 200-400, Tether Radius: 1000, Cost: 75 mana + 40/50/60 per second, Cooldown: 6)ACTIVE: Anivia summons a driving rain of ice and hail to damage her enemies and slow their advance.Toggle: Drains 40/50/60 Mana per second. Anivia calls forth a driving rain of ice and hail that increases in size over 1.5 seconds, dealing 40/60/80 (+13% Ability Power) magic damage per second to targets and slowing their Movement Speed by 20/30/40%. When the Glacial Storm is fully formed, it slows targets’ Movement Speed by [0]% and does 300% damage instead.

Strategy

Anivia is typically a Mid Lane Champion. Click here to view our Mid Lane Champion Strategy Guide.

• Anivia is hard to defeat during early game due to your passive skill Rebirth. The extra magic resist and armor makes it hard for a single champion to defeat your egg so try to play aggressively.
• Despite her passive skill, Anivia is still quite squishy so make sure to ward.
• Use your (Q) Flash Frost to harass your enemies away from the minion wave. Should it hit your opponent and stun them, cram as much damage as you can with your (E) Frostbite and (R) Glacial Storm. The chilled effect would slow champions down forcing them to take more damage.
• Use your (W) Crystallize to keep melee champions away. In addition to this, this skill also works well with other champions like Vayne, Gnar and Poppy.
• In the jungle, Anivia can use (W) Crystallize to create impassable areas for either escaping or blocking escape routes.
• When your mana is no longer a problem, use (R) Glacial Storm to farm minion waves quickly. This makes Anivia a good split pusher.
• Take the Blue Sentinel in the Summoner’s Rift for increased Mana Regen and Cooldown Reduction. Use (W) Crystallize to block the Blue Sentinel so they can’t deal any damage on you.
• Anivia is entirely reliant on her skills which are very mana-heavy, especially her Ultimate Skill (R) Glacial Storm so get Mana and Mana Regen items first.

Runes & Masteries

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Summoner Spells

Mid Lane
Teleport	Flash

Item Builds

Mid Lane

Starter Items

Starter Items
Doran’s Ring	Total Biscuit of Rejuvenation	Warding Totem

Core Items

Core Items
Rod of Ages	Archangel’s Staff	Morellonomicon
Sorcerer’s Shoes or Ionian Boots of Lucidity

Rod of Ages – Rod of Ages gives its users a large amount of mana,health, and ability power after 10 minutes of building it. Moreover, this item also helps Anivia with her mana since she is a caster and needs mana for her abilities.

Archangel’s Staff – This item, along with Rod of Ages, grants Anivia a ton of ability and mana. Given that she needs a lot of mana for most of her skills, both these items are enough to give her more options when casting abilities.

Morellonomicon – This item makes Anivia more painful. With Morellonomicon, her abilities become stronger and also applies grievous wounds which is essential for DPS AP champions. For example, she hits and stuns an enemy with (Q) Flash Frost, giving her the window of opportunity to (R) Glacial Storm and deal a ton of damage on the enemy affected.

Full Item

Full Item
Rod of Ages	Sorcerer’s Shoes or Ionian Boots of Lucidity	Archangel’s Staff
Rabadon’s Deathcap	Void Staff	Morellonomicon

Rabadon’s Deathcap – Rabadon’s Deathcap is a staple item on Anivia because of how it amplifies her abilities to deal more damage.

Void Staff – Void staff increases the magic penetration of Anivia, giving her more damage even if the enemies build a lot of magic resistance items.

Situational Items
Banshee’s Veil	Abyssal Mask	Liandry’s Torment

Banshee’s Veil – This item blocks a spell and also grants magic resistance. Get this item if the enemy has a ton of hard crowd controls and are focusing on you in team fights.

Abyssal Mask – Abyssal Mask makes nearby enemies take more magic damage. This item is a good magic resistance item as well. Get this item if you have another AP champion  in your team who deals a lot of damage.

Liandry’s Torment – Liandry’s Torment also increases your damage output as an AP mid laner. this item is also good for her since she also deals percent health magic damage with Glacial storm.

Playing Against

• Anivia has a relatively safe laning phase – due to her low mana pool, she can’t spam her skills as much. During the laning phase, force her to use her skills and spend mana – once her mana is low, you can then go for the kill.
• Be wary of her Rebirth (passive) – if you manage to deal lethal damage to her while her passive is still up, she will revert into an egg. If you don’t manage to kill her while she’s in her egg form, Anivia will be reborn.
• Anivia has slow movement speed and low health pool so she is very prone to ganks. When her (W) Crystallize is in cooldown, there is nothing she can do to stop your champs from engaging.
• (Q) Flash Frost moves slowly so it is easy to avoid but just to make sure, buy Boots of Speed.
• As much as possible, do not engage in prolonged team fights against an Anivia. Her kit specializes in drawn-out battles, and her damage will scale significantly, the longer you’re clashing with her and her team.
• Engage Anivia whenever her Rebirth (passive) is on cooldown. In fact, she is especially vulnerable when she doesn’t have her egg timer.
• Be wary of Anivia in the jungle as her (W) Crystallize can block you from both escaping and chasing.

Hard Counters

• Trundle – First off, we have Trundle. He is a scrappy fighter who can tank Anivia’s damage and stick close to her thanks to his Frozen Domain and Pillar of Ice. He can then tee off with Chomp until he kills her.
• Katarina – Second, we have Katarina. She is a mobile champion who can punish Anivia if she misses her skills. Katarina can deal sustained magic damage to whittle down Anivia, or outright burst her down with her Bouncing Blade + Shunpo and Death Lotus combo if Anivia doesn’t hit her with (Q) Flash Frost.
• Draven – Finally, we have Draven. He has high physical damage, and can snipe down Anivia thanks to the critical strike chance and bonus Attack Damage he gets from Spinning Axe, even in her egg form.

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