Anivia update mana is gone

alfavhunter·May 3, 2016·3 votes·393 views

Am I the only one worried about the fact that they basically made anivia less viable with the nerfs to overall AP and nerfing her base damage and ratios?

And then with the mana / mana regen changes anivia will have more mana issues than ever before?

Her mana costs were not reduced at all unlike other mages in the updates, can we please see some mana cost changes to anivia to make her more viable?

She already has the glaring weakness of being very immobile, was already mana hungry, and is squishy, why was she nerfed so much with these changes? (Honestly feels like most mages got nerfed)

4 Comments

ModWulf HelhammerMay 3, 20161 votes

Anivia built flat mana, mainly Tear. How do those changes in any way put her at a disadvantage?

ProfirixMay 3, 20161 votes

Chalice was a decent pick-up on Anivia. Now you are forced to rush tear or catalyst and you dont have much of a choice. Ultimately though she will be much more powerful with all of the extra mana combined with item 3003 late game.

alfavhunterMay 3, 20161 votes

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Chalice was a decent pick-up on Anivia. Now you are forced to rush tear or catalyst and you dont have much of a choice. Ultimately though she will be much more powerful with all of the extra mana combined with late game.

Ratio and base damage on Q was nerfed however

Catalyst is no longer nearly as good at lane sustain due to it losing its mana return per level

R is only good after 3 seconds and that only takes more mana away

alfavhunterMay 3, 20161 votes

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Anivia built flat mana, mainly Tear. How do those changes in any way put her at a disadvantage?

Catalyst nerfed to be much less effective

RoA nerfed

Anivia Q lost base and ratio

Zonas nerfed

All the CDR they added doesn't change the fact they reduced AP on AP items by about 20% on average, and nerfed her base and ratios the only part of her kit that got a buff was her R and that's after 3 seconds of mana draining to make it a buff in the slow and damage when R is very often a huge mana drain

They could have done some cool mechanics for making R grow faster if you cast a spell on an enemy champion inside of it (example landing Q or E on an enemy champion effected by R increases its growth speed by 1 second, so if you full combo someone with RQE it's a full storm)

In general it just feels like huge nerfs to anivia