Hey, I want to ask a question, Is ANIVIA good? Everyone is saying she's too hard, garbage, etc. I kind of want her but I'm scared I'll never land her Q and she has too low health. I really want to know if I will be able to play her and if she's good/OK or not. Thanks in advance :)
Tilthankaldar7 votesWhoever says anivias garbage needs a rat pulled out their ass.
A good anivia player is amazing and anivia will never be weak.
She has great utility/waveclear/damage/survivability.
A lot of those aniviakid fanboys are going to say OMG SHES SO WEAK
No shes not. She just takes skill to play. I never played anivia but i know 100% for a fact a good anivia player is hard to mess with.
Sworeclipse1 votesOk, thanks so much! I'm going to save up for her ;D
Tilthankaldar1 votesOk, thanks so much! I'm going to save up for her ;D
Goodluck. Put in time and you'll see how strong she really is.
Sworeclipse1 votesOk, I'll try to main her because she looks REALLY cool XD. :D
Babo Migug1 votesif you want to play her play her but no shes not very gud
Astôlfo1 votesShe's incredibly, ridiculously oppressive in laning phase. Outside of that, she's very squishy and has no mobility, but her E-R point click damage still remains the same, and she can be quite strong with a good team.
Sworeclipse1 votesOk thanks! I'll be sure to try her out :D
The Great Divide1 votesAs a level 7 Anivia main, she's amazing when you learn her. Ever since when I first started league and saw they had a cryophoenix I was like "wow she looks cool!" Little did I know she'd grow to be my best and favorite champ.
Her 1-5 isn't awful. Last hitting is hard, but if you can surprise the laner with a q>e it does 1/2 their health. Eventually, you'll get the hang of what to do. Once you hit 6, Anivia is very hard to deal with in lane (Take teleport so your mana problems aren't as much of an obstacle)
Mid-late game, if you just pay attention to positioning, you'll be fine. I find that if you're ahead, you make plays (wall into q stuns). If even/behind, you stay back and wait for the enemy to engage. This is where you aim your q to go to the back line and stun the carries (they rarely ever watch for it) so their engage is wasted. This is generally 66% of how you'll play most teamfights.
Walls are what separate good Anivias from great Anivias. I still am learning how to consistently wall right after you q, so you temporarily displace them and force them into the q.
All in all, a well played Anivia can snowball games, turtle and turn around what seem to be losses, and do a ton of work. I've had 2 games recently where the whole team was not doing well, but I stalled with waveclear, waited for the enemy team to make a bad engages, and gone on to win the game. She is definitely worth learning!
Sworeclipse1 votesok, I just have one more question. How would you land her ult??? Everytime I try to ult the enemy easily gets out of it D:. Also, the maxing sequence is E, Q, W right?
The Great Divide1 votesok, I just have one more question. How would you land her ult??? Everytime I try to ult the enemy easily gets out of it D:. Also, the maxing sequence is E, Q, W right?
That is the correct level up sequence (however, level 1 you start with q). And the E>R combo is honestly not always applicable. Everyone always cries it's so cheese/no counterplay. The fact is, it has quite a short range for a mage. So for champs like lux, often you won't be hitting your ult. However, for closer range champions, it'll be easier. Longer range, there are tricks you can do with your wall to push them into your ult like you do with a q. You'll learn what to do with more games played :)
Sworeclipse1 votesHmm, ok... I have a question though. I only played anivia ONCE in one for all so I don't really know exactly what all her abilities do. Does E slow???? Is that why E and R is a good combo? Sorry, I don't completely remember what E does, all I remembered was that it did a lot of damage and it was a targeting ability. Also, should I ult in the are they are on, then maybe Q and E and then wall their escape???
The Great Divide1 votesHmm, ok... I have a question though. I only played anivia ONCE in one for all so I don't really know exactly what all her abilities do. Does E slow???? Is that why E and R is a good combo? Sorry, I don't completely remember what E does, all I remembered was that it did a lot of damage and it was a targeting ability. Also, should I ult in the are they are on, then maybe Q and E and then wall their escape???
E doesn't slow. It just does a metric butt-ton of damage. Q stuns in an area. R slows in it's area. E does massive damage to "chilled enemies." Enemies are chilled when they are in R (hence the E>R combo), and when they've been hit by q (either the pass-through, or the detonation stun). And what to do in teamfights is something that you'll learn. Sometimes you'll throw out a q, but won't place R, because the fight seems to mobile. Others you may toss out R, but wait to throw out Q until you can stun a priority target. It'll all depend.
ZapMyHeart1 votesShe is a rather difficult champion to master, but the good thing about it is that once you do so, she will pretty much wreck anything.
Her biggest issue, in my opinion, is learning how to manage her mana and proper positioning. A Tear will solve your mana problems, so focusing on mastering how to utilize the control aspect of her kit is the way to go.
Sworeclipse1 votesOk, I'll try to build some mana items XD
ZapMyHeart1 votesOk, I'll try to build some mana items XD
Just a Tear or RoA is probably good enough. Play around with it and see which one you prefer.
Mysticman891 votesFor the most part if you're sub-diamond or so, don't worry too much if a champion is "good". If you're good at the champion, you'll be able to faceroll people even if the champion overall has a 40% winrate.
Riots balancing can miss the mark sometimes, but it's not that bad to the point that playing a champion is actually handicap at least at lower elos, since people don't know how to exploit weaknesses anyway and people don't necessarily have thought out comps that necessarily would be able to even if they did know. It's more often the case that certain metas produce environments where some champs are better/worse, rather than the champions themselves being better/worse, so in the disorganized FFA, you can learn pretty much anything and it'll work.
edit: For example, ashe was butt for awhile when everyone was building swifities. Ashe herself remained more or less the same during that time. Now ashe is amongst the top ADCs, but that's not so much because ashe is inherently OP herself, but rather that damage is meta in other roles right now, so her utility makes her especially valuable, even though ashe is still more or less the same champ as in the swifties era.
Pauguster1 votesSuper strong once you get a hang of her. Her win rate is good right now and she's very hard to face in the lane currently. Her teamfight and zoning abilities are literally the best in the game, making objective-based gameplay key, but if you can communicated with your team well you will have a very good win ratio. The most important abilities to know are to be able to land that Q, effectively using your wall, and using the E + Ult combo.
Sworeclipse1 votesOh ok, I'll watch some guides because I'm terrible with her wall lmao. Also, does her E slow? I don't compeletely remember what her abilities do because I only played her once in one for all
ZapMyHeart1 votesOh ok, I'll watch some guides because I'm terrible with her wall lmao. Also, does her E slow? I don't compeletely remember what her abilities do because I only played her once in one for all
The E doesn't slow. It's just a click and attack skill. However, the damage doubles when the opponent is "chilled", which is basically when they are hit with Q or R, which is why you do QE or RE on people to do mucho damage :)