Mid

Anivia Build 26.22

Anivia controls a fight more than she duels it. Chill a target with her bolt, punish it with a frostbite that lands like a truck, wall off the retreat, and zone the ground the enemy needs to stand on. A fine but unremarkable pick at 49.7% and slipping, she pairs a fragile, mana-hungry early game with an egg passive that buys one extra life. Respect the frostbite and you strip away most of her damage.

#54 of 107 mid this patch · 1.3k games

Win rate49.7%−0.5Games1.3kPick rate2.2%Ban rate2.7%Last 8 patches−1.0 since 26.15Damage profilei

AP 89%AD 7%True 5%DifficultyiHighPunishes misplays

The 10-second answer standard · 49.7% WR

Spells

Flash + Teleport Start

Spellslinger's Shoes SkillsE›Q›W Runes

Shards

ClassicModernARAM Counter

173 champions

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LoL ClassicSee how Anivia was built in the classic eraAnivia Classic Build

When Is Anivia Strongest?

The win rate tops out around the two-item spike, then levels off, and games at this rank average around 28 minutes. Anivia wants to reach that point with enough mana and cooldown to hold a zone indefinitely, using her wall and storm to make chokes unwinnable and her combo to punish anyone who tries to force through.

Game timeline · Anivia drag or hover to scrub · space plays · ←/→ step

your power minute by minute · gold = item spikes · small = components · dashed = objectives

Camps1:30Drake / Grubs5:00Herald14:00Baron20:00Avg end28:06

Ambush zone8:06–9:36 Power spike 18:43

~6:04

11:10

18:43

26:54

0:00 10:00 20:00 30:00 40:00

At 12:00

Power 66/100 · Even

Core 1/3 items

Gold ~4.9k

Phase Lvl-6 window

Next spike Malignance · 18:43

Anivia Item Build

Anivia is a control mage who zones the map with ice and detonates chilled targets for heavy burst, all while her egg passive buys her a second life. The build stacks ability power with mana and cooldown so she can spam her combo, wall off fights, and keep her storm running.

Standard loadout · Anivia The consensus path — reliable spikes, no dead time.

Starting items 500g

Doran's Ring×1

Health Potion×2 Core path · click an item for its recipe ›› Boots

Spellslinger's Shoes56% · 48.8%

Swiftmarch44% · 50.5%

Situational items pick an opponent in the bar above — the right swaps light up

vs stacked resistsWhen resists stack, penetration beats raw stats — swap a damage slot.B

Bloodletter's Curse4047.5%V

Void Staff4242.9%

vision controlFights are decided a minute earlier by the team that sees first.F

Farsight Alteration64750.7%O

Oracle Lens10949.5%S

Stealth Ward49348.3%

Best Anivia Runes

Electrocute is the pick, and her setup lands it cleanly. A stun bolt, the frostbite follow-up, and an auto make three quick hits that trip it right as she opens. Add cooldown and mana so she can keep casting deep into a fight. When the combo connects, that extra burst is often the difference on a squishy.

The pre-game page Electrocute · Domination + Sorcery · keystone + 5 runes + 3 shards

Domination Primary

ElectrocuteHitting a champion with 3 separate attacks or abilities in 3s deals bonus adaptive damage.

Cheap Shot55% · 46.9%

Grisly Mementos52% · 48.8%

Relentless Hunter57% · 47.7%

Keystone plus three minors from Domination, two from Sorcery, then three shards — no runebook, no masteries.

Sorcery Secondary

Manaflow Band57% · 50.9%

Scorch52% · 51.9%

Stat shards Offense

Attack Speed+10% Attack Speed

Flex

Adaptive Force+9 Adaptive Force

Defense

Health Scaling+10–180 Health (by level)

Shards give +10%Attack Speed+9Adaptive Force+10–180 Health (by level)

Build Rod of Ages into Malignance and let the kit come fully online with it. Stalling out hurts, so press any early edge you get. Malignance comes online at about the 19-minute mark, and from there her chill-into-frostbite combo hits hard enough to blow a target up while her wall and zone lock the fight down. Farm safely toward that spike and the payoff justifies the wait.

Anivia Skill Order

Points 2, 3, 5, 7 and 9 all land on Frostbite, so the damage climbs early. Crystallize sits on its level 4 rank until 14, and Flash Frost cuts back in at 8 before wrapping up at 13.

Skill order · Anivia R at 6 / 11 / 16 — always

PriorityR

R›E

E›Q

Q›W

WMax E first; Q at level 1.

Lv 123456789101112131415161718

Q18101213max 13

W414151718max 18

E23579max 9

R61116max 16

Anivia Abilities

Most of the setup runs through Flash Frost, a slow sphere that chills everything it drifts through before exploding into an area stun. Glacial Storm is the payoff, a lingering field that both slows advancing enemies and primes them for doubled Frostbite damage.

Abilities · Aniviapatch 26.22 base numbers · click an ability · all ranks shown

RebirthPassiveP

Flash FrostMax 2ndQ

CrystallizeMax lastW

FrostbiteMax 1stE

Glacial StormUltRRank-up levels here match the skill order below.

FrostbiteMagic damageMax 1stStatLV 2rank 1LV 3rank 2LV 5rank 3LV 7rank 4LV 9MAXDamage+25 per rank+55% APlv 255lv 380lv 5105lv 7130lv 9155Constant at every rankCost50same at all ranksCooldown4ssame at all ranks

Anivia Base Stats

Base stats · AniviaPatch 26.22

Base statslevel 1 · +per levelAD51+3.2AS0.658+1.68%MS325Range600HP550+92HP55.5+0.55Armor19+4.1MR30+1.3MP495+45MP58+0.8

Anivia Matchups

Anivia is slow and immobile, so all-in divers who jump past her wall and assassins who burst her before the egg matters give her the hardest time. She controls immobile lanes that cannot dodge her stun-into-frostbite combo, punishing anyone who has to walk through her zone.

Lane matchups · Anivia click any opponent to retune the console

Hardest lanes · click to tune

Best hunting

How to lane vs AP mages 01Dodge skillshots and trade back with Frostbite when they step up.02Shove waves with Glacial Storm, then roam or ward before ganks.03Build magic resist and scale; your egg survives their burst combo. Win rate by game lengthAnivia overall · all matchupsUnder 20 min53.5%20–28 min54.3%28–35 min47.8%Over 35 min40.3%

Early aggression before her egg and mana come together is the danger, so watch for Annie, Zoe, and Aurora who can dive her in the opening levels, and hold your stun for their all-in. Survive to her power and she zones whole fights off the map. She walls out Mel, Ryze, and Qiyana, so lean on those matchups and use her control to choke their space.

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