Anivia needs a buff and no, not to her damage.

First of all, to the other bird mains - this damage nerf was a long time coming, it was very frusterating playing against the very much abused E+R combo. Even more so when you could outright execute a squishy st 75%+ hp with one combo and thunderlords.

Hell sometimes you didn't even need TL. No one played anivia so her power level went mostly unnoticed. I can tell you in patch 6.10 her power level was so great, I climbed gold V to play V in 3 weeks, most of it spent on that patch. Playing only Anivia in middle and sometimes top whenever I was stuck with it. My winrate in top with anivia was astronomically higher in toplane too, Melee champions couldn't compete with her damage or trade potential. So to be honest, this damage nerf is well deserved, however, I think that just taking away from a champion and then not redistributing some or most of what was taken away in areas that needed some good ole TLC is just bad.

So along with the damage nerfs, they did lower the CD on the wall by 8 seconds, my response? A sarcastic "big freaking deal who cares"

Her wall, especially amidst the huge assassin update, is useless. Look at champion.gg stats say, that the anivia players who take wall at level 8 or 10 have a higher winrate. Think about what that means, that she has 1 less skill until mid game. It's useless in most matchups. I mean, how many times has someone just face palmed when they wall off a talon and he just nopes over it and ruins your day? Zed, leblanc, fizz, yasuo, talon, akali, and probably many others that I'm forgetting just laugh at the wall. It's pretty bad now in most situations.

That being said, I think her W could be better. Yasuos windwall is so much better it's ridiculous. So why can't hers be? I think the wall has potential and all it needs is some creativity.

I think a scaling passive that scales with level, not rank, would be way better. Or a penalty for dashing,blinking through it. Maybe the chilled debuff? Or maybe CDR? Armor/MR? Lowered passive CD based on rank?

I dont know, it feels really underwhelming and useless. Maybe someone else has ideas for it but I really feel like that nerf while it was deserved, was also too brutal.

Still dreaming of a movement speed buff.