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Anivia's passive doesn't make sense for her playstyle.

Emerald Fang··1 votes·954 views

It doesn't make sense that a super safe, long-range champion should gain virtual immunity to assassins and all-ins and tower dives with a passive meant for champions like Zac .

Look at Zac . His passive makes sense on him. Yes, he is pretty powerful right now, but he all-ins everyone, likely tower diving to get a kill. The passive makes sense on him because he is always in the thick of battle, taking damage.

Anivia is a very strong mage that can annihilate you from distance, likely without her even taking damage. But even when she does take damage she can just pop her egg, possibly teleport away safely, and basically never die.

It was much worse when GA wasn't an AD item because she would literally NEVER die, but the passive still doesn't make logical sense on a squishy mage (mages should be vulnerable to these assassins/all-in champions right?)

She has a 54% or more winrate in every ELO; this isn't just a bronze problem. And her average with experienced players reaches almost 58-59%. She's definitely the safest champion currently in League of Legends, with huge range and that passive.

An idea for a passive that still gives her protection but leaves her vulnerable is: When Anivia is below 40% health she will occasionally summon thick ice around her, taking 10% (+5% per 100 AP) less damage, increased to (+12.5% per 100 AP) when below 20% health, for up to 8 seconds. Capped at -50%/-90%.

[30/25/20 second static cooldown] [Levels 1/6/11]

8 Comments

Anìvìa5 votes

As someone has already pointed out here, her passive is there to compensate for the lowest defensive/health base stats ( mostly health)

At first the egg will actualy take 40 mr and armor from her, leaving her with mostly negative defensive stats. (You deal extradamage to her)

She was balanced around this ability of her since the beta ( She is one of the oldest champions )

It also allows a champ with no additional escape skills to play more aggresive, which allows more player interaction ( Have you played against anivia without egg during laning phase? They usualy go farm mode, unless they have reason not to)

Especialy since she is realy weak if her enemy can dodge the q and she is not 6 yet.

A phoenix getting reborn fits her theme perfectly lore wise.

Players can play around the egg. ( As main, I have seen a lot of players succesfuly making my egg nothing but a delay of my death)

And anivia anihilating anyone from great distance is realy new to me. Her q is the only spell with great range, which could get you in danger, but since her e is aa range, she will have to move into close distance to trade efficiently.

Syndra has bigger effective range on all her spells but her ult ( Which has about the same range as anivias e )

The high winrate is not explained by her passive, which was not changed in forever. It is more likely that her wall c is the key factor giving her such a boost in soloq winrate. ( Together with the nerfs her rivals received)

It was the biggest buff which happened when they also made her e r change ( which is probably the healthies update she could have got)

SEKAI4 votes

It's there to hammer the point that Anivia is an ice phoenix.

EDIT: And to give her some way out given her 0 mobility, so every once in a while you will need to kill her 2 times (her and the egg) to really kill her.

Emerald Fang1 votes

She has a stun that she can double-tap... and what about every other mage? They don't have ways out like her and many have shorter range.

Devilreaper XIII2 votes

anivia was the first champion i played with, after the rework she died...... not sure how anyone can get a winrate with anivia O.o

the egg litteraly gets bursted to death by just anyone now...

HikaruT2 votes

I love to bait with Anivia passive.

NotSpecialDude1 votes

Anivia has 3 reasons that justify her passive.

1.) All of her abilities combo together and are not a reliable source of damage individually. her E is worthless without set up from her Q or Ult and her wall can only be used offensively when used with her ULT. 2.) Anivia has no mobility. 3.) Anivia has the lowest base hp and hp growth.

Anivia is a counter to mages like syndra and orianna who rely on zoning out their opponents and wining trades. Anivia is weak to champs with high mobility, can close the distance and do high burst damage. (Katarina, Akali,Diana, Kassadin )

archerno11 votes

She isnt really as safe as u claim her to be. Her stun is slowest projectile in game, her E is short range and she uses tons of mana.

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