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Therealdevil
Profile Joined May 2010
Netherlands1021 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-04 10:17:55
December 02 2010 10:27 GMT
#1
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Anivia the Cryophoenix is currently one of the strongest casters due to the combination of high damage spells, a stun, amazing amounts of slow, a wall that can ruin the oposing (or your own) team and her passive.


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Rebirth - Upon dying, Anivia will revert into an egg. If the egg can survive for six seconds, she is gloriously reborn.


This is one of the best passives a caster could have. Not because theres a chance they won't kill you in 1v1 lane early but because in a team fight, you have to be killed twice. This can get really hard for the enemy team when your team is propperly organised and will remove alot of agro on you. (Like it does when a person would get GA)


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Flash Frost - Anivia brings her wings together and summons a sphere of ice that flies towards her opponents, chilling and damaging anyone in its path. When the lance explodes it does moderate damage in a radius, stunning anyone in the area.
A massive chunk of ice flies toward target location, dealing 60/90/120/150/180 (+0.5) magic damage, slowing movement by 20%, and chilling any enemy it passes through. At the end of its range or if Anivia activates the spell again, the missile detonates, doing 60/90/120/150/180 (+0.5) magic damage in a small area and stunning units for 1 second.Watch out, Activating it the first and second time both proc kassadin's ultimate, but also give you tear charges.

Cost
80/100/120/140/160 Mana
Range
1100

This would be Anivia's skillshot and quite hard to hit at times (against for example, Miss Fortune) other then that its a very good spell, its slows has AOE stun and does nice dmg. A tip for hitting this would be to look for heroes that want to take a creep and punish them with a good amount of damage & stun/slow.

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Crystallize - Anivia condenses the moisture in the air into an impenetrable wall of ice to block the movement of her enemies. The wall only lasts a short duration before it melts.
Anivia summons an impenetrable wall of ice 400/500/600/700/800 units wide, blocking all movement. The wall lasts for 5 seconds before it melts.

Cost
70/90/110/130/150 Mana
Range
1000

This is Anivia's most dangerous skill, for you AND your oponent, it is a huge advantage when you trie to take baron & fighting in the forest HOWEVER it can ruin EVERYTHING do not use it carelessly. NEVER use it on a olaf thats charging at you, he will move through it for some reason. In a teamfight on a lane use it to protect yourself or your teammates not to lock people out.

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Frostbite - With a flap of her wings, Anivia blasts a freezing gust of wind at her target, dealing a medium amount of damage. If the target has been slowed by an ice effect, the damage they take is doubled.
Anivia blasts her target with a freezing wind, dealing 55/85/115/145/175 (+0.5) magic damage. If the target has been chilled, they take double damage.

Cost
50/60/70/80/90 Mana
Range
650

Very straightfoward. Anivia's main source of focus and early damage.

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Glacial Storm - Anivia summons a driving rain of ice and hail to damage her enemies and slow their advance.
Toggle: Anivia calls forth a driving rain of ice and hail, dealing 80/120/160 (+0.25) magic damage per second, slowing their movement and attack speed by 20% for 2.5 seconds, and chilling them.

Cost
50/70/90 Mana Per Second
Range
625

Late game damage, amazing slow and it toggles your frostbite's double damage. This is the skill that will protect you, help you catch people, give you very high crowd control in fights and make it easier to hit both your stun and nuke. be sure to trie and place this underneath or in front of your oponent. Watch out, Activating it the first and second time both proc kassadin's ultimate, but also give you tear charges.

Items


The first item you should always get on anivia is Tear of the Godess, because the first and second activation of your stun and first and second activation of your ultimate will proc the passive. You can fill the 1000 mana pool quite fast.

The second item you can is Rod of ages, obviously starting with the Catalyst. This will add some HP so you can't get easily killed & the obvious mana Anivia desperately needs.

After finishing the Rod of Ages you should make an archangel's staff out of your tear and then go for Zhonya or Void staff. The AP-Only way is the best way to get a high mana pool with 3 archangels after the zhonya for a whopping 1000~ Ap and 4000 mana.

General tips & tricks


Due to her passive Anivia can quite easily carry around Oracle's Elixer.

The best way to fight 1v1 is R>E>Q>E Toggling your R off as soon as your oponent leaves the aoe.

Anivia needs blue buff more then anyone, steal it if need be. You can easily kill it alone (it takes off quite alot of mana but hey, its a blue buff.

Anivia has no real need for summoner spells, so help the team. This means grabbing Teleport or CV should not be a big issue for you. If you do not need CV or Teleport you can grab flash instead for positioning & running purposes.

Try Bronivia, Anivia is olaf's strongest ally, and strongest oponent. (wall ruins him)

Masteries & runes


Basicly, 9/0/21 grabbing the mana regen, exp, faster reviving, teleport mastery, longer buff duration, movement speed and cd reduction. I do not grab flash mastery so I can put an extra point in longer buff duration.

For runes I have mpen red's, mana regen /lvl yellow's, ap /lvl blue's and flat ap quints.

Pretty straightforward caster runes.



For some reason I can't see the mastery tree thing on my laptop so can't input it atm but will when I'm at home so I can finally say I finished this thread

TheYango
Profile Joined September 2008
United States47024 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-02 11:42:45
December 02 2010 10:51 GMT
#2
I generally dislike getting Tear early (and definitely not before Cata), because Cata is clearly the better laning item, and by the time you get to the point where Cata's mana restore starts to drop off, you're jungler is probably going to be letting you hog blue buff, and you're going to want some form of AP (getting Cata AND Tear before any AP items delays it too much IMO). Sure, you charge Tear fast, but IMO that's an argument against getting it early, because filling it early doesn't do a whole lot for you, and you can fill it just as quickly later on.

I personally like Flash/Ghost on Anivia, but I realize this is possibly not optimal. I like Teleport, particularly if I have solo top (for obvious reasons), and for the interaction it has with your egg (people often forget to throw CC to stop your teleport if you get egged). I'm not a big fan of CV on non-support champs, but I suppose you could take it over tele if you're team doesn't have a support champ/your support champ is being silly and not taking CV, and you have mid (you want at least 1 escape Summoner, and Tele is too high-value if you have solo top, IMO).

What are people running for runes? Jiji's Anivia runepage is somewhat weird, with Mpen marks/glyphs/quints and HP/lvl seals. I'm currently running Mpen marks, Mp5/lvl seals/glyphs, and flat HP quints, but that's because I haven't gotten around to buying AP/Mpen glyphs/quints.
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phyvo
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States5635 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-02 13:09:00
December 02 2010 13:07 GMT
#3
I don't play Anivia much, but when Locodoco translated Manyreason's guide it was something like mpen reds (or were they ap reds?) aplevel blues and ap quints, with RoA/AA/swiftness/Zhonyas/Void Staff. Yeah, not even sorc shoes.
"BE A MANGO TO SLEEP LIKE A SNORING TIGER" - Monte
Darkchylde
Profile Joined January 2010
United States473 Posts
December 02 2010 14:03 GMT
#4
Yeah, that's very similar to how Jiji builds Anivia too. Swiftness > Sorc.
Therealdevil
Profile Joined May 2010
Netherlands1021 Posts
December 02 2010 14:56 GMT
#5
Repositioning quickly is more important then 20 mpen, so is getting away from ppl etc.

I run MPen red's
mana regen per lvl yellow's
cdr blue's
and AP quints
Odds
Profile Joined May 2008
Canada1188 Posts
December 02 2010 16:31 GMT
#6
If they are getting Swiftness boots, why not also MS% quints?
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TheYango
Profile Joined September 2008
United States47024 Posts
December 02 2010 18:41 GMT
#7
On December 03 2010 01:31 Odds wrote:
If they are getting Swiftness boots, why not also MS% quints?

Probably because the conversion rate to MPen is poorer.

Swiftness vs Sorc Boots = ~30% move speed vs 20 mpen
MS Quints vs MPen Quints = 1.5% move speed vs 1.89 mpen
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Southlight
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States11767 Posts
December 02 2010 23:03 GMT
#8
ManyReason uses/used mspd.
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DiracMonopole
Profile Joined May 2010
United States1555 Posts
December 02 2010 23:47 GMT
#9
At least in unranked games, anivia makes great bait. People cant resist going for her egg.
barbsq
Profile Joined November 2009
United States5348 Posts
December 03 2010 13:13 GMT
#10
On December 03 2010 08:47 DiracMonopole wrote:
At least in unranked games, anivia makes great bait. People cant resist going for her egg.


tank bird is hilarious for exactly that reason
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myopia
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States2928 Posts
December 03 2010 15:41 GMT
#11
I am disappointed that this hasn't been worked into the OP in some way.
it's my first day
Pandonetho
Profile Joined October 2009
Canada321 Posts
December 03 2010 19:10 GMT
#12
Watch out, Activating it the first and second time both proc kassadin's ultimate


What do you mean by this? Or did you mean force pulse.
barbsq
Profile Joined November 2009
United States5348 Posts
December 04 2010 13:57 GMT
#13
On December 04 2010 04:10 Pandonetho wrote:
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Watch out, Activating it the first and second time both proc kassadin's ultimate


What do you mean by this? Or did you mean force pulse.


i'd imagine he means pulse

also i am a proponent of catalyst > tear, that hp is so awesome
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Navi
Profile Joined November 2009
5286 Posts
December 05 2010 01:08 GMT
#14
catalyst is just like the sexiest first item for a castar, evar.

since most reasonable teams will let you hog blue fairly early, is an early AA even needed?
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Southlight
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States11767 Posts
December 05 2010 09:51 GMT
#15
There're two primary schools of thoughts for Anivia. Neo thinks one sucks but I think it's perfectly viable, given that a pretty good Anivia runs/ran it a lot.

The first is the obvious Cata -> Tear -> Swift -> RoA -> Arch -> etc. build popularized by Koreans. It kicks in really, really late, is reliant on farm, is less reliant on golem, and leads to some massive DPS as the game goes on and you start finishing those items, along with the ability to keep R running for a long time. Skill build AFAIK is QEEQEREWEWRWWW

The second is the Guise -> Sorc -> etc. build put forth by LIBF. It kicks in really early and demolishes people in lane. Problem is, it's super reliant on blue buff, and takes longer to get to end-game. This one ends up playing more like a pure nuker, running QEEQEREQEQRQ. Especially in solo queue this one's usually much better IMO as it kicks in really fast and lets you snowball, as opposed to the other which is slower and relies more on your teammates not sucking ass. Also, most people you play against tend to be too stubborn to build against the mass mpen).
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nyxnyxnyx
Profile Joined April 2010
Indonesia2978 Posts
December 05 2010 12:44 GMT
#16
I think Tear is way too good to pass up.
cool beans
barbsq
Profile Joined November 2009
United States5348 Posts
December 05 2010 13:01 GMT
#17
On December 05 2010 21:44 nyxnyxnyx wrote:
I think Tear is way too good to pass up.


i dont disagree that tear is an excellent item on anivia and one should certainly buy it on her. i just disagree with it being the first item
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TheYango
Profile Joined September 2008
United States47024 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-06 05:18:24
December 06 2010 05:18 GMT
#18
Unrelated to the discussion, but

This would be Anivia's skillshit and quite hard to hit at times (against for example, Miss Fortune) other then that its a very good spell, its slows has AOE stun and does nice dmg. A tip for hitting this would be to look for heroes that want to take a creep and punish them with a good amount of damage & stun/slow.

Is "skillshit" intended?
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Pandonetho
Profile Joined October 2009
Canada321 Posts
December 06 2010 05:47 GMT
#19
Is "skillshit" intended?


I am pretty positive that it is not intended because if you continue to read the very same sentence, he says it's a very good spell.
Therealdevil
Profile Joined May 2010
Netherlands1021 Posts
December 06 2010 07:45 GMT
#20
On December 06 2010 14:47 Pandonetho wrote:
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Is "skillshit" intended?


I am pretty positive that it is not intended because if you continue to read the very same sentence, he says it's a very good spell.


Skillshot

I'll try to finish the post today
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