Anivia "nerfs" My thoughts on why its unreasonable to call them nerfs

I am gonna address one thing first, yes she does need a nerf.

However the change to her glacial storm and Flash Frost are too much. The argument that Anivia should have to use all her spells to kill someone is fair. However the changes to glacial storm are redundant; it takes 1.5 sec for it to get to maximum size. Her stun at max level is 1.5 sec. For laning that is fair and rightly. Glacial storm into frost bite with a maximum six second cool down is too strong. However her Team fighting suffers greatly. People already stay out of glacial storm and tanks now do not care. The way that i have seen it go is Anivia casts glacial storm the tank, support, or caster with cc will walk past it either hit you with cc and cancel the glacial storm or Anivia backs up from the threat of the enemy team closing in. In either situation you scramble to Flash frost to keep them at bay or off the adc The few times that i have managed to make a glacial storm work in a team fight is with RCS and a perfect crystallize but that is redundant and anivia is so mana heavy that you need roa or arch angles, i prefer both, the cost to make her work for a game is super late for not enough pay out. Their are ways to try to make it work and i am going to experiment cause i am not giving up on my bae.

All of that being said i think that the anivia changes are too much to be called a nerf. It fundamentally changed what items you need to build and how and when to play her abilities. They might be "small tweaks" but it completely changed the amount of valid rotations that anivia can play. Even if you play those rotations perfectly there is no way to follow up for someone who has a qss or flash off cd. While yas, syndra, and many other champions have more valid rotations and ways to follow up. So the only way to offset the changes in my opinion is to go CDR anivia and try and get more valid rotations in.

The biggest mistake for these specific changes tho. Is when i push that ult button i do not feel a sense of this is my zone stay away or die, witch is how i think An anivia should feel when she ults. I only find myself Pushing that button in a hope that they do not realize how easy it is to stop my contribution to the team.

I Love Anivia she is my most played champion and the only champion that i just play the game with to "just play the game. " Ultimately these changes are a way to make anivia tolerable until she gets an update, with my narrow understanding of how things work these changes made it past the PBE and she is going to be stuck like this for at least 6 months or more. I will deal with the changes but people have to relearn anivia and what items are valid on her, that IMO is a mini update at least.