Anivia Needs a Buff

Master Van Tachi·3/27/2018, 5:36:16 AM·4 votes·551 views

Her Q is the slowest moving skill shot in the game. It needs more speed.

Her egg does nothing other than delay death. The revive time is so long, any mage can easily kill her with just auto attacks.

The mana cost of her abilities is completely absurd. While other mages are building AP, or health, or something useful, Anivia is forced to stack pure mana just to make herself playable.

Her win rates are severely inflated because no one actually plays her other than complete experts with good teammates to support them.

Needs:

lower mana costs
faster moving Q
faster reviving egg

9 Comments

Baron Barian3/27/2018, 6:07:31 AM3 votes

Q is a good self-peel and potentially good engage. It has to be slow.

Egg only doesn't save you if you're already in melee range of absolute death, in which case you simply aren't taking advantage of her range.

Her mana cost is easily fixed with item 3070 and item 3027 . The former is even filled super fast because of her ult. She is meant to be a late game battlemage after all.

You must not fully get her strengths and weaknesses. She's kind of awesome.

Onecimus3/27/2018, 5:44:23 AM2 votes

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Her Q is the slowest moving skill shot in the game. It needs more speed.

Dude, someone has to have that honor. It might as well be a skillshot that is nearly undodgable if used correctly.

Her egg does nothing other than delay death. The revive time is so long, any mage can easily kill her with just auto attacks.

It's not really supposed to be a GA or anything like that. Early it's an anti diving measure (or pro-diving measure if you're into risky plays) and late game it does alot if you position yourself in your team correctly.

The mana cost of her abilities is completely absurd. While other mages are building AP, or health, or something useful, Anivia is forced to stack pure mana just to make herself playable.

Nah. I grab team and ROA to start (ableit I am significantly more conservative than some others) And I deal a metric butt ton of damage.

Her win rates are severely inflated because no one actually plays her other than complete experts with good teammates to support them.

I mean, she's not the most popular pick ever, but I have seen more of her lately, and she does just fine even on mediocre champs.

Needs:

lower mana costs

faster moving Q

faster reviving egg

Anivia has had one of the most consistent winrates I've seen in any champion since I started playing this game. If they started tinkering with her then she would undoubtedly become overbuffed, so they'd have to overadjust back and it would be a mess. I like her consistency and reliability. No buffs needed.

not most impressive: but this coming from a 140k previous Anivia main

Asterfix3/27/2018, 6:21:12 AM1 votes

Her q isn't meant to be shot from max range man, it's undodgeable because it's WIDE and when it explodes it's EVEN WIDER. If you sit in lane trying to harass somebody who is able to freely walk around it it's going to miss. You aren't supposed to harass with anivia you're supposed to go all in, like fizz. Her passive doesn't require babysitting it requires positioning. If you get ignited and you run back to your tower your egg will save you. Or maybe zed ults you and jumps back out but when it goes off you just get egged. If you get ROA you become the powerhouse. It's anivia's bread and butter because it drastically improves everything she needs improved on.

The only complaint i have is that her ult doesn't have some sort of idiot-proof mechanism where if you use it on minions and never turn it off it will just go until you have no more mana. I played a game with a guy who never turned off his ult, no matter what. He would get ganked/get a gank, and once that ult went off he let it sit, once he ran out of mana he would back, ult the minion wave, wait until he was out of mana then back again. Never said a word all game.

Kaìju3/27/2018, 6:58:27 AM1 votes

I'm in Silver and can slam kids on Anivia, she's fine as is, if you can't play her that's on you. She's a zone control half DPS half nuke mage.

Zero Shingetsu3/27/2018, 8:02:23 AM1 votes

Anivia has a buff.

item 3075