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I. Introduction
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21 / 00 / 09
R > E > Q > W
______Hello! I am Stephen (or Pluckin Penguin), and this is my 3rd champion guide for MOBAfire on my favorite AP Carry,
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______Most of my Guide is based off of In-Game Experience, and watching CLG Froggen play anivia. CLG Froggen is probably the world's best Anivia player for League of Legends currently, and has a very unique play-style for her.
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Pros
+ // Has a decent amount of CC. + // Very powerful post 6. + // No true counter. + // A very unique skill set. + // Fits in almost all team comps. + // Can fly. |
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- // Is rather weak pre 6. - // Super mana-hungry. - // No reliable escape spells. - // Placing a wall can be difficult. - // High skill-cap. - // Reliant on proper skill-shots. |
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______A 21/00/09 mastery set-up is pretty standard for most AP carries who go mid lane. As Anivia, you need to make sure you get the mana, and mana regeneration masteries to make the laning phase a bit easier on you, and your mana bar.
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S E A L S |
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______I know I've stated it many times that
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_____Let's say we're a level 5
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_____For more advanced players this combination can also be done in the reverse order if you can click fast, or are smart casting. As I said in the previous chapter,
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_____This combination is extremely effective when it comes to team fights. My reasoning is that if you can catch an enemy out of position with a
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______Alright, this is the first item build for
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______Before you begin to jump to conclusions, realize that this order isn't mandatory and is subject to change based on the guide. The situational items at some times can be better than the ones I have listed.
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STARTING ITEMS
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EARLY GAME ITEMS
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CHOICE OF BOOTS
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MID GAME ITEMS
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END GAME ITEMS
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SITUATIONAL ITEMS
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______Alright, this is the second item build for
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______Before you begin to jump to conclusions, realize that this order isn't mandatory and is subject to change based on the guide. The situational items at some times can be better than the ones I have listed.
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STARTING ITEMS
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EARLY GAME ITEMS
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CHOICE OF BOOTS
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MID GAME ITEMS
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______ The order of the following two items highly depends on the amount of bonus mana stacks your
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END GAME ITEMS
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SITUATIONAL ITEMS
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USE WITH CAUTION
______This ability seems like a fairly easy ability, but there are many things that you should know prior to using this ability:
- Affects Teammates. This not only affects the enemy units, but it affects your teammates as well including YOU. Therefore, before placing a
Crystallize ensure that it either doesn't affect your teammates, or assists them. You will generate a lot of rage throughout the battlefield with one badly placed wall. Trust me, I too was a noob
Anivia once.
- Immovable, yet Passable.
Crystallize as you can probably assume is immovable, and cannot be re-positioned once it is placed down. Regardless, it can be passed through by certain abilities(jumps, blinks, dashes), and
Flash. Also,
Crystallize does not work with
Condemn,or
Heroic Charge, or in other words it doesn't result in a stun if one of the listed abilities is used up against a
Crystallize.
- Do not Smartcast. Especially, if you are a beginner, do not bother smart casting this ability, it is very difficult to take full advantage of the ability if you are to smart cast it. If you do not know what smart cast is then just don't worry about it.
- Wall + Anivia. The rotation of
Crystallize is only affected by
Anivia's positioning. Therefore, you need to be in the right position, if you want to place a successful
Crystallize, and you need to adjust your position, if you would like to change the rotation of
Crystallize.
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OFFENSIVE CRYSTALLIZE
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- Catching Enemies Out.This is what makes
Anivia such a threat. If you see one enemy champion split away from their team in
Crystallize range, you can easily align a
Crystallize to prevent their escape. This allows you to hit most of your abilities, and possibly slay the enemy champion.
- Zoning / Splitting.These are the trickier
Crystallize's to place properly. The idea behind this is to either split the enemy damage-dealers (AP Carry, or AD Carry) away from the enemy team to prevent them from doing as much damage as they would like.
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DEFENSIVE CRYSTALLIZE
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- Blocking.Simply, blocking an entrance with a
Crystallize to force the enemies to find a different entrance. Typically a good idea when it comes to securing buffs such as Dragon, or Baron.
- Escaping.This doesn't need much explaining. All it is is placing a wall between the enemy champion, and you. It is a pretty basic concept, that is quite difficult to mess up.
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OTHER CRYSTALLIZE
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- Fog of War. Typically, many
Anivia players find out that
Crystallize reveals fog of war by mistake. Anyways, this makes it very useful to check a brush for an oncoming gank, or give vision to your teammates when the enemy team is sneaking a dragon.
- Blue Buff. This one is a great way to take blue buff at early levels when your jungler is not capable of assisting you. Simply, place a
Crystallize between you and the Ancient Golem (the big one), and make sure he cannot get around it. The common LoL player would think that the Ancient Golem would reset, but instead it waits for the wall to collapse and begins attacking you once more. However, if you can solo blue buff, then you want to save your
Crystallize to check for any sneaky people trying to steal your buff.
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LEVELS 1-6
- Farming. This is your main focus through all levels but how you farm levels 1-6 is completely different then farming later on in the game with infinite mana and your ultimate. You want to last-hit the minions, and try to avoid pushing the lane unless your laner has gone back to base, or you would wish to go back to base.
Anivia is very hard to last hit with in my opinion, I highly recommending going into a custom game to practice last-hitting minions with auto attacks and saving mana.
- Harassing. Harass is quite skill-shot reliant particularly in levels 1-6 where your only damaging spells are a skill shot, and a target nuke (that relies on a skill-shot for max damage). Therefore, you can easily harass with auto-attacks, but if you feel confident that you can land a skill-shot on your enemy then go for it. You will want to stick to the
Flash Frost +
Frostbite combo for this part of the laning phase.
- Jungle & You. You need to understand your Jungler, and the Enemy Jungler. They will play a huge role in the result of your lane and your allies. Therefore, you need to realize if you need to identify the type of jungler you face and have. The 2 main types of junglers are farm junglers(ex:
Master Yi), and ganking junglers (ex:
Shaco). If you have a farm jungler you need to play it safe and expect little to no ganks. If you have a ganking jungler you want to try to keep your lane in a position that the jungler can gank. Now for the enemy team, if they have a farm jungler feel free to push your lane, and try to get ganks. If they have a ganking jungler then play carefully and plase sight ward's.
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LEVELS 6+
- Farming. This is the point in the game where your wave clearing power is incredible. When a wave comes down place down
Glacial Storm, send a
Flash Frost down the wave, and watch the minions fall. While your lane is pushed consider taking the enemy wraith camp if you feel you can do it safely.
- Mana. By this stage in the game, you should at least have your
Tear of the Goddess. With this item, you will want to use your abilities frequently even if you don't have blue buff, but if your mana dips below 200 I would consider recalling, and conserving mana.
- Harassing. Now that you have your ultimate, your harass is quite outstanding. If your enemy gets too close, and their jungler is not around feel free to use the
Glacial Storm +
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- Mana. Before you, and your teammates should go into a fight you need to have most of your mana, or a blue buff. It is devastating to be in a teamfight with no mana when you know you can't do anything about it.
- Catching Enemies. If you realize that an enemy is caught out of position and is in range of
Crystallize, place it down behind them to split them away from their team. This will allow not only you, but your teammates as well to get lots of free, and easy damage.
- Prioritizing. During a teamfight you need to prioritize which enemies to kill first based on the situation. You want to kill the most valuable enemy champion in your grasp optimally without getting yourself killed in the process. On the other hand, you also need to look at it at a defensive standpoint, and protect your most valuable champions at the same time. Those who can find these priorities in teamfights are the difference between good and great players.
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______This is a very difficult match-up for
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______Not a very threatening mid-lane choice in general, and the easiest way to beat this guy is to dodge his skill-shots. If you predict his skill-shots, and dodge most of them it's very hard to lose against this guy. He can push out his lane rather easily; so, you probably can't get off many ganks if any. On the other hand, if you let
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______This snake is annoying, and beats you really hard early game. I typically run Flat MR Glyphs against this chick. Her harass is like no other, but it is skill shot reliant so you just need to be swift on your "wings". To win your lane, you can ask your jungler for a gank, or just look for ganks on all areas of the map. You can push out your lane much faster then
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______This is just a demonstration of how the builds can actually work. Most of the games I have played as
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______If you have used my guide in an actual game it would be awesome if you sent me your match history either through PM, or in the comments.
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_________Here I will list any of the successful recorded
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