Anivia adjustments on PBE require compensatory buffs

Retard Slayer·9/9/2016, 11:31:32 AM·7 votes·1,286 views

Nerfing the R-E/E-R combo without giving Anivia any form of compensatory buffs is pretty much putting her in the garbage can. She already has a bad pre-six laning phase against a competent player. Even after hitting level 6, it's not like she can completely screw the other enemy laner. She has massive mana costs compared to other mages. The nerfs don't make much difference to her team fighting, but waiting around for a few seconds just to do the full 200% damage against another laner is ridiculous and will never happen against someone who isn't playing on a wheelchair. If she does less damage with her combo at the very least, lower the mana cost or give some sort of compensatory buff so she doesn't completely get dumpstered in lane even after hitting six.

These changes are going to affect her post-six gameplay dramatically. There is absolutely no way someone is going to just stand there in her ulti until it grows to full size for her to do maximum DPS. Nerfing her combo without giving her any compensation will make it so that she won't even be able to play aggressively. Inb4 "hurdur e-r is easy to land. this makes anivia require more skill to play". No it doesn't. Anyone that thinks that is actually in a wheelchair. It changes absolutely nothing about her teamfight because a well positioned ult will be in full size and she will pretty much do the same damage. Her laning phase is going to be even more shocking though because she is going to OOM before being able to kill or properly zone her opponents out of lane. Before 6 she can't afford to use her abilities as often as other mages to farm waves. In fact, she has absolutely no dps against a good player if she uses a single ability.

Edit; Yeah I can't be bothered trying to reason anymore. In fact, why am I even bothering to reason to Bronze-Silver players that are telling me Anivia's Q is hard to dodge. Zzzz...

22 Comments

L0ve Is Blue9/9/2016, 11:50:52 AM5 votes

Oh please don't start buffing Anivia. She deserves to be nerfed. He damage is amazing, her passive makes her super safe against early game agressor and ganks and she has amazing utility with her wall+AOE stun+AOE DOT slow. And potential to make picks with her E. She only has 1 weakness and its that she is immobile. Otherwise she has all the range, CC, damage and safety any mage could dream of.

Requiemsfire9/9/2016, 11:36:09 AM2 votes

I just want to chime in that she actually can just R E especially since she can simply use her wall which has a much longer range and then burst you down without any real counterplay as opposed to rewarding a player for landing their Q. Since the mid season patch mana isn't as much of an issue as it used to be and if she manages to grab an early tear/catalyst it gets so much easier to just spam your abilities.

I think her midseason buffs were really strong, i believe she curently ranks as God tier for ranked.

Maximum Morde9/9/2016, 12:03:54 PM2 votes

How about you land a Q then?

Pika Fox9/9/2016, 1:20:49 PM2 votes

Im pretty sure the entire point was making it so that she couldnt just R E and making landing Q more important. Why would riot want to give her compensation if theyre obviously trying to trim her free damage?

Face it, anivia's RE combo has always been an issue with her. They chose to limit how easy it was to get full access out of it without straight up removing damage.

Marshbouy9/9/2016, 12:22:56 PM1 votes

You got a link to the nerfs....?

The Deckowner9/9/2016, 3:47:53 PM1 votes

You have a problem with people in a wheelchair?