How am I supposed to handle this situation?

Slythion··1 votes·344 views

I'm playing Anivia vs. Ahri. She's 1/0/0 due to solo-killing me at lv.6, I'm 0/1/3 with about a 20cs lead. Overall it's a pretty damn even lane.

My bot lane is something like 2/6 and my top is 0/3 or 0/4. While our jungle is fed, he's a volibear and can't exactly gank an Ahri very well. The lack of any form of pressure in our side lanes allow their Xin and Leona to essentially roam 24/7 they, end up tower diving me repeatedly.

I'm not here to vent or anything, just wondering how I should handle this situation as an Anivia without much support from my team. Looking for tips + tricks

4 Comments

Spiffy McBang1 votes

This isn't an Anivia-specific answer, but when it's that bad, play defensively and farm. Yeah, getting dived sucks, but part of dealing with these situations as a mid laner is making sure you're warded as much as possible and back off if they can stomp you out even under the turret. Anivia has good wave clear and can at least collect CS while also forcing the enemy team to make a concerted push on your lane to take turrets. But she's slow and her passive is useless if you're always alone and there's no one to protect the rebirth, so for the most part you just have to find ways to dent the enemy team while you try to claw back into the game. And there comes a point where there just isn't much left to do apart from their internet exploding.

Without seeing the game I have no way to suggest anything else, but I'm looking at your op.gg and you had the least damage in that game, including the enemy Leona. In fairness, second-least was the Caitlyn on your team, and she should have an easier time at least getting in potshots, but at some point you need to find ways to put damage on the enemy champs if you're not beating them in CS. I know Anivia doesn't necessarily lend herself to that, and I don't know her well enough to give you ideas. If it's too hard to land abilities when you're behind because the enemy just walks through them, maybe it requires roaming earlier to keep deficits from getting too far out of hand.

PeachyPosterior1 votes

When I'm in lane vs. turret divers I try to remember to take exhaust. When they dive you get some spells in, exhaust their ass, and use some more spells while the turret aims for them as well. It's hard with two champs diving you, but no one wants to be stunned or slowed while targeted by turrets. So it might be enough to scare them off you for a little while.

Feed Like Unicef1 votes

As that annoying bird, can't you just build defensively and ult the wave, thus making it always a poor dive? Not that I play that soulless creature, but I've seen it done and it's tilting. She's got arguably the most reliable wave clear not named Sivir / fully upgraded hex-core Viktor. doesn't she?

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