I have honestly no clue what to do against Anivia

Tokogawaruf·4/10/2018, 2:04:32 PM·1 votes·1,331 views

Its probably because i almost never mid, because i play almost only Adc, Supp or Jung, but I really have no clue what to do against her.

For Context, i played Twisted Treeline a lot lately, and was Bot Lane against her once, and Jungle where she also went Bot. For me, it felt like the only Choice i have when "fighting" her is eating the Q+E, which is hard to dodge, just to be able to trade, or dont trade and accept my Tower slowly dying due to her endless Shoving of Minions. My next Problem with her is that shes only going to stack mana, which also means she stacks AP with item 3003 and CDR aswell, making her Spells permapresent. Shes also rather tanky after item 3040 item 3010 , making her survive your Attacks should she allow them.

Im not saying shes braindead, but she surely isn´t fun to lane against. As you can read i totally struggle against her and would need some tips should i run into one of the maybe 40 Anivia Players out there.

Thanks in Advance

6 Comments

Step Sis Lux4/10/2018, 2:22:56 PM3 votes

Q is hard to dodge? its probably the slowes skillshot in the game

Dark Nephthys4/10/2018, 11:11:36 PM2 votes

Can't comment to much about the Twisted Treeline as I don't play that game mode all that much so my advice is mostly for facing her in Summoner's Rift, which can probably translate to TT as well though.

For starters, Pre-level 6 her entire combo and trading potential is all on her Q. Until she can get her ultimate, that Q is everything, where if you dodge it...you basically win any trade against her pre 6 since without that she literally does almost 0 damage. Try to see how she plays, pre6 Anivia would like to step up closer to you to get a closer ranged Q on you, and it's very easy to read. You might think Anivia's would throw out their Q from far range since it is like 1100 range but her actual damage comes from her E which is only like 600-700, so she would always step up within that range before using her Q. If you see her walk up closer when she's pre6, chances are that she is getting in range to Q you. If you dodge it, then just jump on her and punish her.

Push her to her tower. While Anivia has god like wave clear, that is only when she has her ultimate...but Pre-6, Anivia's wave clear is actually terrible and she will easily miss most of the minions under tower. Even when she reaches level 6, her ultimate really takes a lot of mana out of her and can go oom super quickly if she is not careful. With all the rune changes to Manaflow Band and Presence of Mind, her mana in lane has been hurt even more...though her Mid/Late game mana management has been made better. But if you want to take a huge advantage against her, then play a mage who can wave clear extremely well that cost a lot less mana, and bonus if they also have great poke. People like Ziggs Velkoz can make Anivia's life hell when used right.

Post 6 is when Anivia can be a lot more aggressive. Anivia would probably walk up to you and drop ultimate under you and then put a wall behind you to block your escape until the ultimate reaches full size to hit you with an E. If you have any reliable CC, then save that CC for when she drops her ult + wall on you, and instantly hit her with that CC. That way you can make her waste all that mana for using her ult and wall (which easily adds up) and now her wall is on CD for 17 seconds. Losing wall is huge as it's one of her best and reliable ways to keep you in her ultimate (outside of Q ofc) and her main way to escape from ganks etc.

Be careful on Anivia's Q as well. Depending on who you are playing, Anivia will save her Q for when you jump in. Say for example, Leblanc is an annoying match up for Anivia, and Anivia would have to save her Q for when Leblanc Distortions in, otherwise it's super easy for her to kill Anivia and dodge around her skills. If you are playing a champion who has strong burst and mobility, then Anivia may be saving her Q for when you jump on her and would just rely on her Ult + wall + E to trade with you. If she uses her Q on you, then dodge it and instantly go aggressive on her.

If you force her into her egg, then try to kill it if you can, but don't overstay for that kill if you are afraid of dying (to either her reborning before, or jungler gank etc). Even if you only got her egg, count that as a win and back off. Her egg is a 4 minute CD so that would be a huge win in itself anyways, and then you know when your ultimate comes back, you can just rejump on her knowing she wouldn't have it then. Think of it as when you are playing ADC and the opponent has a item 3026. Even just getting that is pretty huge in that instance, and Anivia's egg is similar to that.

Zed genius4/10/2018, 2:38:09 PM1 votes

Just pray your jungler ganks for you, otherwise just dodge q and farm

Sasogwa4/10/2018, 2:55:31 PM1 votes

I feel like Anivia is just someone you don't try to kill. Her kit is really slow and has limited range to be fair, but the slowing and control is insane against people that actively want to kill her in low range. Probs farm it out

nm10104/10/2018, 3:00:59 PM1 votes

Anivia is a champion that forces you to outplay her or lose, that is why in my experience Plat 5-Diamond 5 is full of Anivia mains. People can't punish her enough to make her lose so the players can climb by just passively not making mistakes. My personal pick is Kassadin or LB into her, LB for gank pressure and Kassadin for straight up killing power.