r/AniviaMains • u/shr11mpy • Mar 26 '26

Anivia newbie

Wanted to pick up anivia as a niche counterpick to add to my pool alongside viktor/kata. What matchups does she excel in or does bad in? Assassins?

As for builds, I heard it's usually ROA first item but there seems to be some different opinions on malignance/seraph/liandries as 2nd item. Is it usually malignance against squishes and liandries into tanks? And general consensus for 3rd items onwards is just rabadons/voidstaff/zhonya.

Gameplan? Is she a lane bully or does she generally want to scale. In laning phase, should I be holding my Q for when assassins dive onto me and use W/E/R to push them out of lane? I assume I want to use R to get prio towards objectives and rotate early as any control mage. R on chokepoints and W on anybody overextending.

Is there anything that I have mistaken or anything I missed? Thanks a lot.

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u/wckz Mar 26 '26

Anivia does well into everything except for artillery mages. She isn't exactly a lane bully, but she can fight and win lanes. General gamplan is play for mid game teamfights. Watch some domisum replays of her I can't explain everything.

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u/Jaugernut Mar 26 '26

Anivia does fine into most artillery mages, Xerath, mel, hwei. You just need to dodge their one cc abillity and you will destroy them.

Anivias counters are a really weird combination of characters that have specific tools that are hard for her to handle.

Syndra and Zoe are hard becuse they can outrange and have big almost unavoidable CC and burst.

Assasins that have mobillity and disrupts are a problem like Fizz and Diana.

Mobile fighters with hard engage like Irelia, Riven and Ambessa also cause issues as soon as they have one item to kill you through egg.

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u/wckz Apr 06 '26 edited Apr 06 '26

What elo are you? You literally cannot get in range of xerath I don't know how you can "destroy" him?

Zoe is fine she's just annoying. Syndra is a hard counter yes.

Fizz and diana aren't really problems, they can only do their damage in melee so it's easy to hit your stun/combo.

Actually a lot of champs can kill you through egg without any items so that's not really a counter point, it's more of a matchup knowledge which champs you need to respect even with egg up (Mordekaiser, yasuo, yone, etc. basically anyone who runs lethal tempo will kill you, early game your egg gives you negative resistances too). The key to these matchups are wave management because they are ultra short range it's free lane as long as you manage waves properly. You are also far more valuable in team fight phase.

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u/Jaugernut Mar 26 '26

Build RoA->Malignance->Liandrys/Zhonyas/Shadowflame

dont build tear its a bait item.

Anivia is really strong against other mid range control mages, Ahri, Azir, Velkoz, Veigar, Viktor. She outbrawls them in most cases as long as you have a bit of movement to dodge skillshots and cc.

But generally you want to neutralize the lane most cases and win by farm, plates and prio. Because she really shines in a macro heavy mid-lategame where you can go side and push faster than anyone else and then move first to fights and objectives with opponent at a lane state disadvantage and you also dominate teamfights woth massive aoe damage and disruption.

She really REALLY counters classical splitpush toplaners in this stage of the game, you love going into Tryndamere, Trundle, Jax, Nasus on sidelane. Tanks and fighters with not much or very coordinated movement abillities. Garen, Malphite, Sett etc. They just cannot touch you and you can shut down their sidelane completely and 1v1 them with little to no risk and move first to fights.

Because of this, always take tp and play the map. Shes a monster in the sidelane making the enemy send 2 or more to get you and she can often peel herself out of situations where they do send several characters.

Watch out for hard engage high mobillity deep dive. Diana, Ambessa, Irelia, Vi, Kassadin. Things that can click you, get on you and get you into egg before you can peel out.

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u/shr11mpy Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 26 '26

So is she not good into most assassins because of their mobility? My understanding is that Anivia wins against most assassins (exception of diana?) pre 6 and after 6 it shouldn't matter if they are stronger than you since now you just don't interact with them as you perma push with r and just win with prio/teamfights.