Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Anivia

My first match of the day began with Anivia. The squishiest champion in the entire game. her abilities are pretty straight forward. Passive turns her into an egg if she dies, -10 armor and magic resist while in egg form. wait 6 seconds, if the egg is still alive she comes to life with however much health she has left.

Q shoots a ball of ice that you can detonate early by reactivating it. if it has a direct hit, it will stun anything in the explosion. afterwards, enemies are chilled and have their movement AND attack speed decreased. The chilling effect helps out with her E ability, which is really her best way of dealing damage.

E is a targeted ability that deals a large amount of damage to whatever is targeted (single target). if the enemy is chilled, it doubles the damage, which is great for taking out enemies that are on the run after you stunned them with her Q.

Anivia's ultimate also chills enemies, so that her E deals double damage to them if they are inside the R circle. Her R creates a circle of damage per second on the ground where if the enemy steps into it they are chilled. It has a 5 second cooldown and does not have an actual set run time. in higher levels, her ult is a great way of clearing minion waves early. You can also combine all of her abilites together to completely stop an enemy in their tracks.

step 1: set up R  behind enemy
step 2: set up W behind R as the enemy runs through her R
step 3: stun enemy inside of the R with her Q
step 4: deal massive damage with her E

by this time the W will have melted, but if you're powerful enough they will have low enough damage to take them down with ignite or basic attacks.

There's really nothing hidden about Anivia. she's a glass cannon but she can build up a good amount of health as a buffer.

My only issue is that she's pretty damn slow. With tier 2 boots, her movement was still only at 370. I know she has good crowd control with her abilities, but it was still pretty hard to chase someone down and I lost a few kills because of it. Another issue is that if you're fighting a champion that can silence you, there's really nothing left for you to do. good luck surviving. I'd consider using her if I had to, but she's definitely not my first pick as far as AP goes.

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