OK so syndra and ori are being nerfed

not to mention her stun spear combo can do about half your health before she even hits 6

She doesn't seem to have a high popularity though,

Are you sure it's not just a case of mains propping her up on the charts like kog has done a hundred times?

Anivia is painfully slow, needs a lot of lvls and items (tons of gold) and she also needs a solid frontline to really shine.

In my world she´s rather situational and her laning is really hard against anything with more range or mobility since she´s hard to dodge with and mobility cuts her damage in half or more.

And teamfights are hard if the earlier mentioned conditions arent met or if enemy has a strong engage or something like a blitz.

I used to play anivia a lot just to try and understand but i could only get to the conclusion that she is situationally really good but if one of the conditions aren't met then she will face difficulties or even struggle a lot.

And that's if she gets past laning too.

Janna will constantly be picked because there isn't a single number you can nerf in her kit REASONABLY that actually means something. As long as she has her get-out-of-jail free cards in Q and R and the sheer utility her W/Passive give there will never be a time she isn't AT LEAST viable.

Anivia spikes the hardest mid game. Typically going even with her will give you an edge during late game. She also has a bad early game against most champions. A few champs that hard counter her early on are

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You keep saying she's easy to shut down but you never actually say how tho :^)

She has the lowest movement speed in the game, with no escapes, and the lowest base hp in the game and also one of the most mana hungry mages in the game. So keep that in mind, but here is a general way to shut down Anivia.

1. You could play a heavy poke champion, and constantly poke her out because she will have much harder time dodging them than other people and every hit will impact her much more due to her lower base hp. Constantly poke her out and she'll be forced into recalling early or risk going into her egg. Most poke champions have much longer range than Anivia as well, and generally have decent wave clear through out all parts of the game so you could keep your distance from her and poke her out pre level 6. Also because her E is only 650 range, she would have to get very close to you to really use it and her E is the bulk of her damage. Even if she lands a max range Q, she would spend most of the time that you are stunned, just trying to get to you and you'd have enough time to walk away until the chill is gone. Champions like:

2. You could play heavy wave clear champions and constantly push her to her tower. Yes Anivia's wave clear is the best in the game but that is only when she is level 6, and her pre level 6 wave clear is actually pretty bad. Because her Q is the 2nd skill maxed, her damage of her Q is nothing to the minions and if you constantly push her to her tower then she will lose a lot of minions to it and be behind which is pretty big for a champion running double stacking mana items. Once she reaches level 6 and her wave clear becomes insane, while she can wave clear better than you it still costs her 3x more mana for her to clear the waves over the other strong wave clear champions. It could take her like 300ish mana to clear a wave with her ultimate, as opposed to Viktor who can press E on a wave and clear it for like 80-120 mana, or Ziggs who can Q + W a wave for like 140 or so mana. The only thing Anivia has over other heavy wave clear champions is that she can leave her ultimate up to clear multiple waves, or Baron minions etc, but again it costs her so much more mana than any other champion. Champions like:

3. You can play any Mobile champion (Basically mostly Assassin). While in most champions in this category, you could have a terrible experience pre level 6 against Anivia but once you get level 6 and have your ultimate, you never have to worry about her if you play it right. Anivia relys on either keeping you in her ultimate for 1.5 seconds or landing her easy to dodge Q, and in most cases she will start off by putting the ult under you and putting a wall behind you. If you are a mobile champion, you have 2 choices....you could either just use your escape and jump over the wall making her waste a decent amount of mana and her 17 Second CD wall, or just dash on to Anivia knowing her ult and wall are used. Anivia will then throw out her Q and try to quick stun you and then use E, if you dodge it then you literally kill Anivia without her having any hope left. Even if she lands the stun + E on you, that combo would only deal about 40-50% of your HP (Assuming she isn't super fed at that time, or it's not late game..but this is more for lane phase). Even if you get hit with it, she is down her full combo and all of her abilities. A lot of people I face just back off because they were scared of the damage they just took, but not realized that was everything I could do (besides AA you) for at least 6-8 seconds, so any assassin can easily and effortlessly jump on me and kill me within that period of time. Champions like:

As for after lane phase, that part really comes up to team fights and how you play them and who is on your side/enemy side. Just know if she has her Egg up, and try to flank her if you are an Assassin or any flanking champion. During fights jump on her and try to force her into her egg (If possible without using as many resources like summoner spells/ults) and then while she is in egg judge the situation at that. If your team is winning hard, then you could spend your time destroying the egg if you feel that Anivia is a much bigger threat than their ADC. If you are losing the fight, it might be best to turn off of her egg and quickly focus their ADC if you can, since taking the time to destroy the egg is giving the enemy's ADC time to kill you all. Obviously if you have enough people next to the egg and you can pop it in under 1-2 seconds, then sure go for it but it's all about knowing if your time would be better spend focusing another target that needs to die. Even if you don't pop her egg, you know it's down for 4 mins so it'll probably be down for the next team fight (Which also applies to fighting Anivia in laning phase).

Also it's best to come from different directions as well...because if the team fight is your team running straight at the enemy team then that makes things easier for Anivia. If you come in from the front and side that will make it much harder for her to decide which side to focus her zoning.

There is not a single point in the game where banshee's veil has a shorter cooldown than his passive even at the beginning of the game at 30 seconds. Banshee's veil is 40 seconds flat throughout the entire game.

His passive is at 12 seconds to max rank. At level 1 it is 30, 10 seconds less than banshees. Also it doesnt block just one ability. During .25 seconds after hit, he can still block everything that hits him until .25 seconds is over. This is very useful if multiple people try to hit you at the same time since everything is blocked. The only downside is he gets 90% damage reduction and can be procd by just autoing (which is literally only bad in the early game when you would rather block an ability).

He can also get 2 spell shields since you can also buy banshees on him and it isnt even detrimental since you get ap cdr and mr.

There is only 1 main thing that makes his passive worse than banshees. The passive is strong and you can not deny it.

A good Malz knows how to continue his visions. Making it damn near impossible for Ryze or Morde to get close to him. A bad one has no idea how to do that.

A good malz will save his silence for your channels, or your stronger abilities. A bad one will just try to spam it. (and miss)

A good malz knows when to use his summon to add additional pressure. A bad one does not, he'll just spam them and then complain that they are useless.

A bad malz can do well with his ultimate. A good malz can do incredible things with his ult.

If you can't see the difference, maybe you're not paying attention. Anivia is the same way, but a bad Anivia will still deal crazy damage if she's got her computer monitor turned off.

Here's a thought. Stay out of range!

Cause it's fucking stupid for anyone to be able to negate a champs entire ult, and his voidlings die extremely easy from any aoe spell