Honestly, Anivia feels like absolute garbage. I've been maining this champion since pre-season 1 (right after the LoL beta occurred) and I have never felt as useless as I do currently. Her laning is absolutely atrocious all game now.. all she can do is waveclear worse then ziggs.
Bravo, whichever Riot balance team came up with the nerfs. You make me really sad.
I will have to largely agree. While her E>R was fairly unfun, the main problem was it's high base damage which would allow Anivia to have slightly stronger laning with just mana items than she should have.
However, the change should not have been to remove any sort of reliable damage. Right now she uses too much mana, is too unreliable, and takes too much effort to be an impact and affect the game (at least compared to most other mid lane mages). Her needing to use a full combo just to trade in the lane with the lane opponent feels really awful, and there isn't really any other way to trade with the enemy.
She needs something. Unfortunately, riot thinks she's fine right now, so I can only be saddened to believe that she's going to stay in this state for a while.
When you consider starting out, her health and speed are among the lowest in the game. Factor in her redic mana costs, i had never thought her early damage was too much. It balances which is the point. Not to mention, unless your really fed or later in the game Vs a squishy, your not killing an enemy even using full kit. If the person your playing against is smart and goes back to base when they need to, your reallly struggling...she thrives on the kill kill kill (noobs for a lack of a better term) who this that they can stay in lane with 10% health and still go beyond their turret. Im an anivia main. And by main i mean 1.3 mil points on her. I feel like she is just a tool for riot. A champ ppl dont play much and when they do ppl complain about her. So they just nerf her every few patchs to satisfy people without affecting much.
