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[Challenger]🥶Anivia Support Guide🥶

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Runes: Comet - Lane Page

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Sorcery

Arcane Comet

Manaflow Band

Transcendence

Waterwalking

Domination

Zombie Ward

Relentless Hunter

Bonus:

+8 Ability Haste
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+6 Armor

Spells:

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Standard Sums

Flash

Ignite

Items

Core Build

Situational Items

Boot Options

3rd Item Substitutes

Ability Order All In page

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Anivia Passive Ability

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Welcome tomatoes! I am Doglightning an grandmaster Support main. I have been playing league since season 3 but s9 was my first season I really tried to progress as I was done with school. I hit Diamond for the first time playing support and managed to climb my way up to Master by the end of the split. My Goal has been to make off meta champs viable in high elo.

Why Anivia support?
One word that describes support is zone control. In a teamfight with your and you can cut off 2 paths from flankers and really provide safety for your adc. If a flanker uses gap close to get past your wall or then they will not have mobility left to dodge your stun. Lining up free kills for your team. She also has decent catch potential with and her passive makes it so in lane if the enemy team all ins you they will lose as you come back to life.

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PROS

+ Amazing Zone Control
+ Decent Damage
+ Good Peel
+ Hard to kill (Revive)
+ Decent Pick potential
+ She's a birb :D

As said before 's greatest strength as a support is her zone control. Use and to make picks or block off flankers. You have decent damage if you manage to land a into and her peel is amazing. Enemies are gonna have a hard time running through and eating a stun to the face.

CONS

- Bad vision control
- Hard combo to hit vs mobile adc in lane
- Immobile and slow
- Wall can screw teammates
- Has poor mana management

The biggest weakness I have found so far is that none of s spells give vision of brushes. This means she doesn't have a way to face check bushes and needs teammates to escort her around the map. Her is very slow and easy to dodge. This isn't a problem when you use and to manipulate your enemies movements to land stuns but if the enemy adc has a dash like the lane can feel impossible. You have to be cautious because can block off teammates and she is also very slow!

SUMMONER SPELLS
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FLASH: This is an mandatory summoner spell on almost every champ in the game. is low range and immobile. Without flash you are a sitting duck... sorry sitting bird. (I think im funny)

IGNITE: reduces by 50% and almost every adc runs so this rune is very good if you ever want to get kills in lane. Also don't forget in teamfights to pop this on enemies that have high healing.

EXHAUST: Very good option if you are in a lane that you don't have kill potential. You can also pop the exhaust right before you pop into egg form to hopefully stop them from being able to kill you.

SORCERY

has really great synergy with s kite. Most the time in lane you are leading your trades with a which stuns the enemy and guarantees that the comet will hit. Once you hit 6 you get and will be leading trades with that. Since slows it again makes it really easy to make sure hits your target. Only isn't good with this rune but usually you don't lead your trades with this spell.

Another note is one of s weaknesses is that she has no abilities that give vision of bushes and means she doesn't have a great way to face check to get vision down for her team. With you can or a brush from a safe distance. If you don't proc then you know you are safe to walk up and ward the brush.

is a mana hungry champ and helps solve this problem. Since give a % of your missing mana back this means you want as big a mana pool as possible to make the most of the rune. That's why I combo this rune with as the extra 150 base mana pool really makes a difference.

is always good on champs with high base cooldowns. Since has a high base cooldown its really good to get ability haste where ever we can!

is great for early lane presence. It just adds a bit of extra damage to your trades but is kinda useless later.

is my preferred rune as has terrible base movespeed and this just helps your early game roaming a lot.

gives you the best late game scaling. If I'm the only ap on the team then this is something I would seriously consider to help me scale like a mid laner.

is great for late game vision control and a extra 30 ap. If you think game is going late take this.

is good if you want to just rush first item. I would consider this into teams of assassins' or vs a lane.

reduces flash cd by 40 seconds which is super impactful imo.

is super slow. If you are thinking about going then I would consider getting to make up for the terrible base movespeed.

is a must if you are planning on playing for lane early. You will oom a few times until is stacked and this will just make sure you don't.

Standard AP runes. is a mage and likes ap :D

PASSIVE
ABILITY

Rebirth (Passive): s passive turns her into an egg when she dies. She then a few seconds later revives again as a new life. In the support role this is really useful because you can over extend for trades and if the enemy decides to all in you. They lose because your adc is attacking their adc and you come back to life once you die so it's usually not worth it for the enemy team to focus you in a 2v2.

Flash Frost (Q): is the main cc of s kite. She hurls a large ice chunk at the enemy and if she activates it again it stunes the enemy. The more points you put into this spell the longer the stun duration will be. It is very slow but it hits hard when it lands.

Crystallize (W):
is the bread and butter to s kite. As I said the stun is very easy to dodge because it is slow. You want to manipulate the enemies movements with to land stuns. You can also use and wall the enemy off with to trap them within it. Outside of comboing spells this wall grows in size with points and is really good for blocking out immobile carrys in teamfights.

Frostbite (E): is an underwhelming spell for the support role. Basically you launch a icicle that does double dmg if the enemy is hit by or don't spam this in lane or you will run out of mana. Only use it when you hit the enemy with or .

Glacial Storm (R): has a ton of utility as it's an AoE slow zone. It can be used as a zoning tool much like Crystallize or it can be used as a peeling tool if you place it on your adc as they get dove. I usually like to open with this spell. You place and wall them off with . Then you see which way they are walking and hit the stun. Meanwhile the whole time you are spamming double damage s at them.

General Ability Order

For skill order we are maxing first. Since it does double damage when you hit stun
it actually out damages with an all in combo and the cooldown reduction with the
stun duration increase is really good. Next we max because the wall size goes up
with points and as a support blocking a length of a lane off is really game changing for a teamfight.
Finally we max last as it just provides so damage which isn't our job as a support in
a teamfight.

Starting Items

Spellthief's Edge is really good since Anivia consumes mana and the mana regen is helpful. Only bad thing is she has a hard time stacking it and you will be getting wards late.

Relic Shield is very good and fits her palystyle perfectly allowing her to farm up to wards efficiently. Only thing I don't like is missing mana regen on a champion this mana dependant.

Boots

Anivia has the 2nd slowest move speed in the game and this is a must to be able to compete with roam timings. Also just in general while going back to base a lot for wards this is really helpful.

If you take Relentless Hunter than Boots of Swiftness is a good option if you don't want to lose all your move speed while in combat.

If you are the only ap carry then Sorcerer's Shoes really helps solidify your damage.

Mythic Items

Imperial Mandate is insane value when you forget about the damage passive. You get 40p and another 15 when you finish your support item which is usually about the same time. This means you are spending 2500g for 55ap compared to mage mythics which is 3400g for 80ap. On top of this Anivias ult can AoE apply this and reapply it on a low CD.

Since Liandry's Torment applies a %hp burn it is really good as a stand alone item. I would recommend this into high HP teams.

Night Harvester gives you a ton of burst and move speed when you proc it on someone. If I'm snowballing I would consider this item.

This item has great synergy with Anivias kite. She is a control mage and this adds more control. Also being able to cc chain Flash Frost into Everfrost while the enemy is stuck inside Glacial Storm is really strong imo. Only problem is this item is hella expensive.

Situational Items

This item almost feels core as a 2nd item. This item doesn't cancel Glacial Storm so when someone dives, you can cast ult into Zhonya's Hourglass and watch them melt while you stay safe.

Honestly just great stats. AP, ability haste, hp and a passive that you get movespeed when you hit an enemy. What's not to like? If you get Mobility Boots then this can help you not feel so slow when in combat.

A good tank shred option that also makes you a tonky birb at the same time. Not bad at all but awkward build patch imo.

If you notice the enemy team stacking MR then this item is great for support. Its cheap with a great build path.

If you pick up an early dark seal and get it to 8 stacks. Then this is a decent option. Anivia is pretty hard to kill in teamfights and picks up a ton of assists. Just a great item on her.

Great for blocking skill shots or if the enemy has a top of AP champs that keep killing you.

really awkward item to build as support but really strong if you can complete. Only get this if snowballing hard.

If you need anti heal then this is the option you want.

Level 1 on you don't want to go to crazy as you don't have the damage yet to all in. You wanna just sit somewhere to pressure a stun to create space for your adc. Try to go for as the enemy adc is last hitting. This will make it much easier to hit. If you hit a just throw in 1 auto and back off. Once you hit 2 you can now all in. If you land a hit them with and keep autoing them until they run out of range. If they try to attack you then they will lose since you have and will revive. Once you hit 3 what I like to do is throw out then put a behind them as they run to force them into the stun.

At level 6 you just dominate lane as you have too much damage and cc. I start with a putting a behind them. They then have to choose to walk left or right to get out of the slow zone. Once they pick a direction hit them with a and spam on them.

Once you have you can try to roam. Anivia has decent roams especially at 6 if the enemy laners are immobile. Putting down a combo down can secure easy kills and snowball your midlane.

Mid game you want to transition into a support for your jungle. Get vision around mid so your adc is safe alone and run around getting picks with your jungle. You don't want to roam alone too much because you have not the best survivability especially if you went for . Using your to catch people for free picks is really important. Also make sure you are keeping track of dragon timers so you can get vision down 40 sec before is spawns and back to refill your wards you just placed.

In teamfights you want to play opposite of how you were playing in the mid game. In the mid game you are playing aggressive looking for picks. In teamfights you want to sit back and have a very wide view on the fight. What I mean by this is you want to be tracking all the enemies divers and flankers. Your job is to use your wall and to keep enemies out and away from your adc. You lest your top/mid/jungle make picks and just focus on keeping your backline alive. If your backline lives then you win the fight!

In the conclusion to anyone who made it this far. I thank you! suport isn't that hard to master but is very tricky at first. You have to get used to manipulating your enemies movements with your to help land . Overall I would say this is a very playable champ in high elo as I have a positive wr in Diamond 2 and I know someone that OTP this in grandmaster. Hope you enjoy :D

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