A Guide by Delta Scorpion Graphics by Emikadon

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Table of Contents

Introduction Pros/Cons Masteries Runes Summoner Spells Skills Skill Sequence Items Crystallize Match-Ups Rewards Credits Change Log

About the Author Name : Beau Age : 21 IGN : Beaunivia Server : Oceania Rank : Diamond IV Season Started : Season 1 Role : Mid Lane Champion : Anivia

The Guide This will be updated during the 5.22 patch What items to buy and when to buy them What runes to take in certain match-ups Tips on how to use Crystallize The reasons behind my masteries The best summoner spells to take When you should level up your skills A general grasp on how to play in the mid lane The specifics on how to play Anivia

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Anivia, The Cryophoenix

Pros + Waveclear + Objective Control + Post 6 Farming + Burst Damage + Sustained Damage + Utility + Crowd Conrtol + Scales Amazing Into Late Game

Cons - Mobilty - Pre 6 Farming - Roaming - Blue Buff Reliant - Squishy Without Passive - Difficult Spells

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Offense Sorcery for 5% Cooldown Reduction Expose Weakness gives extra damage while Glacial Storm procs Mental Force for some scaling Ability Power Spell Weaving will increase damage output mainly during laning phase Arcane Mastery is a small flat boost to Ability Power Executioner grants a nice boost of 5% extra damage when enemies are below 50% health Blade Weaving will increase damage much like Spell Weaving Archmage is an amazing late game mastery boosting Ability Power by 5% Devastating Strikes to boost Armour Penetration and Magic Penetration by 6% Havoc for a flat 3% boost in damage output

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Utility Phasewalker Not really needed, just a filler Meditation gives some flat Mana Regeneration Summoner's Insight helps win early fights due to having Ignite or Flash back earlier Strength of Spirit will provide a small boost in Health Regeneration Runic Affinity having blue buff for 20% longer is amazing

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The AP Assassins 9x greater mark of hybrid penetration 9x Greater Seal of Health 9x Greater Glyph of Magic Resist 1x Greater Quintessence of Scaling Cooldown Reduction 2x Greater Quintessence of Magic Resist

These assassins love to 100-0 their target by dealing a lot of magic damage. The job of these runes is to make sure you will have health left over no matter what stage the game is at, laning phase to teamfights.

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The AD Brutes 9x Greater Mark of Hybrid Penetration 9x Greater Seal of Armor 9x Greater Glyph of Ability Power 1x Greater Quintessence of Scaling Cooldown Reduction 2x Greater Quintessence of Ability Power

These brutes want to change the meta to be AD Mid, the job of these runes is to put them back in their top lane or unviability where they belong!

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The Normals 9x Greater Mark of Hybrid Penetration 9x Greater Seal of Armor 9x Greater Glyph of Magic Resist 1x Greater Quintessence of Scaling Cooldown Reduction 2x Greater Quintessence of Ability Power

This rune page is the normal rune page I would suggest you run during normal games or versing a laner who doesn't present much killing presence.

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greater mark of hybrid penetration greater mark of armor penetration

Why greater mark of hybrid penetration? 9 greater mark of hybrid penetration will grant 5.49 magic penetration and 8.1 armour penetration. 9 greater mark of armor penetration will grant 11.52 armour penetration. 9 Greater Mark of Magic Penetration will grant 7.83 magic penetration.

By taking greater mark of hybrid penetration you will lose 2.34 magic penetration compared to Greater Mark of Magic Penetration or 3.42 armour penetration compared to greater mark of armor penetration.
Lets compare amour penetrations against a level 1 and 18 Nidalee with 15 and 74 armour respectively;

Marks greater mark of hybrid penetration greater mark of armor penetration Greater Mark of Magic Penetration

Penetration 8.1 11.52 0

Level 1 Auto Attacks 48 49 45

Level 18 Auto Attacks 64 65 61

Lets compare magic penetrations against a Nidalee with a base 30 magic resist. Lets use Frostbite as our damage checker.

Marks greater mark of hybrid penetration greater mark of armor penetration Greater Mark of Magic Penetration

Penetration 5.49 0 7.83

Level 1 Frostbite 44 42 45

Level 5 Frostbite 141 135 143

Note : Frostbite will deal double damage with the chill debuff
It's a matter of opinion depending on what marks you want to run, however I will usually take greater mark of hybrid penetration for a bit more early game harass and farming while essentially losing no damage late game with my strong spells.

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Best Summoner Spells

Flash makes up a small bit for Anivia's very low mobility. This will help you escape death multiple times and also give you a few kills. Really too important to not have.

Ignite is an amazing summoner spell to add a little more damage early game to secure a kill or to inflict grievous wounds onto the unkillable Dr. Mundo.

Heal is just so strong in this patch. I will usually use this spell over Ignite if I'm versing a LeBlanc or an Akali and focus on farming and playing super passive.

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Viable Summoner Spells

Exhaust can be amazing when versing a Zed to decrease his damage output by 50%.

Teleport can be a very handy summoner spell to have. Stop split pushers like Tryndamere with your amazing waveclear. Get back to lane after being bursted by a LeBlanc. Turn a 2v2 bot lane into a 3v2 with a nice ward teleport.

Barrier needs some loving after the HUGE Heal buff, however Barrier can still be nice to stop a huge burst from Veigar. Also helps counter the Executioner mastery.

Cleanse is a very underrated summoner spell however against a hard Crowd Control lane or team composition, it can be quite useful.

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Unviable Summoner Spells

CLARITY

GHOST

REVIVE

SMITE

CLAIRVOYANCE

Just please don't pick these spells, they aren't that useful compared to the other ones.

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Rebirth

Laning Phase Die under tower or near your jungler for protection Use your egg to bait counter ganks The egg will grant negative resistances during the early game

Teamfights Be ready to spam Glacial Storm and Frostbite for when you revive If the enemy team is focusing the egg your team should be able to collapse

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Flash Frost

Laning Phase Flash Frost uses a lot of mana, so make sure you hit them The best time to use Flash Frost is when the enemy goes to last hit a minion You can reactivate this ability to make it explode earlier

Teamfights Save Flash Frost for a high priority target or multiple targets Reactivate this ability after it has passed the enemy for additional damage

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Crystallize

Laning Phase I prefer not to level this until mid game This wall starts off quite small in low levels

Teamfights There will be a whole section on this

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Frostbite

Laning Phase This is Anivia's largest single target burst spell Follow up with Frostbite after hitting them with the stun or slow from Flash Frost Use Frostbite to last hit cannon minions as they are worth a lot of gold

Teamfights After being slowed from Glacial Storm, Frostbite will deal extra damage Try to use Frostbite as much as you can in teamfights While Frostbite is in the air, try using a Glacial Storm before it hits them

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Glacial Storm

Laning Phase Use Glacial Storm to farm minion waves and jungle camps Frostbite-> Glacial Storm is Anivia's most reliable damage combo

Teamfights Use Glacial Storm to waveclear minions so your towers don't get pushed In a teamfight, try to place a well put Glacial Storm and keep it active during the whole teamfight Glacial Storm is great for zoning, waveclear and objective control. Don't forget about the 20% attack speed slow

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This is my general leveling up sequence for Anivia's abilities.

Pre 6 I usually won't put any levels in Crystallize because I'll want more damage output from Flash Frost and Frostbite.
Maxing Frostbite will mean your single target burst damage will be extremely high, which is the best for the laning phase as you can poke out your enemy with the chill -> Frostbite combo.
When we start maxing Crystallize we'll have a huge wall that we can use in a variety of ways. Click here for the different walls
Two early levels into Flash Frost will increase the base damage by 60 which will really help push your enemy out of lane after landing a nice Flash Frost-> Frostbite combo. Later on your Flash Frost will be an excellent tool in waveclear, penta stuns and damage output. If you have this as your level 1 spell, it is an excellent invade tool as it is a ranged stun that deals 120 base damage.
Glacial Storm is Anivia's spell of waveclear, zoning and controlling a fight. A well places Glacial Storm can zone out their AP carry and AD carry while your team destroys 3 of their team.

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Starting Items

The Doran's Ring and Health Potion start is usually the safest and the best due to the Health, Mana Regen and Ability Power from the Doran's Ring, however, if I'm in a lane where there is small kill potential I'll start with a double Faerie Charm and a Stealth Ward for early vision and fast tracking for my Chalice of Harmony.

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Sustain Items

catalyst the protector

Anivia suffers from a lot of mana problems throughout the whole game. I would recommend to get 2 of these items; catalyst the protector Tear of the Goddess Chalice of Harmony In my personal opinion, I will usually stick with Chalice of Harmony and catalyst the protector unless I am versing an AD Heavy team which then I would get Tear of the Goddess and catalyst the protector

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Boots and Enchantments

Boots are very important to Anivia due to her low movement speed. You should pick up Boots fairly early in the game, but what boots would you get next? Sorcerer's Shoes will increase damage output and improve movement speed. I will usually always buy these unless... Mercury's Treads are extremely useful when going against a heavy crowd control team or if your laner has a lot of crowd control/high burst magic damage like LeBlanc But now what should you enchant your boots with? Enchantment: Alacrity will further improve Anivia's normal movement speed, I will usually buy this enchantment Enchantment: Homeguard is still an amazing enchantment, however after the nerf I will only buy this if we're losing and need the hyper movement speed while turtling in base

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Late Game Items

Will provide a HUGE ability power spike with the flat and % increase.

Gives Anivia a lot of ability power and armour and an amazing passive which can save you from a Death Mark or Chum the Waters.

Improves the sustained damage by Anivia, a good buy against high hp teams like Dr. Mundo.

If you can't kill that pesky Malphite or Amumu due to their high magic resistance, you should definitely buy this item. >100 magic resist this item will become essential.

I buy this item when I'm versing AD Heavy teams. As I won't have the Cooldown Reduction from Athene's Unholy Grail this item will give me 20% along with armour and mana.

Guess how many lives I will have with Rebirth up? 3! along with the armour and magic resist bonuses, this item is a handy pick up.

Frostbite has a small range, so the passive from Abyssal Mask will be active. It also gives nice magic resist and ability power.

An amazing game changing passive and a lot of magic resistance. That pesky LeBlanc won't get off her full combo on you anymore.

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Item Damage Comparison

Using a level 5 Frostbite as the damage output

The Items Rabadon's Deathcap Void Staff Sorcerer's Shoes Liandry's Torment

30 MR 195 176 152 174

70 MR 149 144 113 129

110 MR 120 122 90 103

150 MR 101 106 74 85

190 MR 87 94 64 73

By looking at these damage comparisons we can see that Void Staff will outdamage a Rabadon's Deathcap by 110 Magic Resist stage. This is why generally you should always buy a Void Staff mid-late game for the amazing damage benefit. A Void Staff is also a lot cheaper then a Rabadon's Deathcap. The price of Sorcerer's Shoes is so cheap for the damage increase it gives. I hope this section has helped give you more of an insight on penetration and ability power.

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In this section I will go over the different types of walls you can pull off!

#1 The Stall Wall

Used to Defend the Outer Turrets and Inner Turrets.

The Stall Wall is a wall which prevents the enemy team from Sieging. By examining the picture, the light blue line represents Crystallize and the darker blue circle represents Glacial Storm. By having the Crystallize wall up at that point, means the enemy champions or minions cannot go through that way and have to go through Anivia's Glacial Storm to get to tower, which is represented by the dark red circle. You want to throw a Frostbite at the cannon minion as it worth a lot of gold.

Best time to use this wall is if you have a really hard split pusher like Udyr or Tryndamere and you want to prevent the enemy team from sieging a 4v5 under tower.

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#2 The Siege Wall

Used to Siege all Turrets and Catch out enemy Champions.

This Siege Wall is used to safely Poke enemy Towers and to Catch out Champions without Escapes. This picture shows that the tower is now the enemy's outter turret. Anivia's Crystallize has caught Kayle on the wrong side of the wall. Kayle will now have a couple of choices; Fight, Flash or Run through Glacial Storm. In a Siege situation, throw a couple of auto attacks onto the enemy turret as the enemy champions will not be able to do much to stop you unless they have long gap closers, long poke or long waveclear.

I love using this wall to catch someone off guard and turn a 5v5 into a 4v5.

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Summary Index

Easy Match-ups Brand Heimerdinger Kayle Lux Morgana Ryze Veigar

Fiddlesticks Karthus Kha'Zix Mordekaiser Riven Twisted Fate Ziggs

Skill Match-ups Ahri Annie Katarina Malzahar Orianna Xerath .

Akali Cassiopeia Lulu Nidalee Syndra Yasuo .

Hard Match-ups Diana Kassadin Talon . . . .

Fizz Leblanc Zed . . . .

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Easy Match-ups

These are match-ups that are in your favor, however still be careful of a good player.

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Brand Versing Brand is fairly easy. As long as you can dodge his Sear from stunning you, you'll be fine. Hitting your Flash Frost has never been easier with his low mobility.

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Fiddlesticks Don't Flash Frost until he uses Bountiful Harvest so you can easily stun him and Frostbite him. Use Crystallize to look in bushes and over walls to make sure he's not going to crowstrom onto you. His Reap can stop your Glacial Storm so be careful of that in teamfights.

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Heimerdinger Focus on getting as many last hits as you can pre 6. With Glacial Storm you can kill his turrets in a few ticks while still clearing a whole minion wave. If Heimerdinger does not have any turrets up, he has trouble farming, so make sure his turrets are dead, and he'll be easy as pie late game.

CH-1 Electron Storm Grenade

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Karthus Karthus will be focusing on getting farmed ready for his ultimate late game. Frostbite-> Glacial Storm-> Flash Frost-> Frostbite should be able to kill him every time.

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Kayle Anivia is an amazing counter to the strong pick of Kayle. If Kayle tries to charge you with Righteous Fury simply throw down Glacial Storm and Flash Frost her in the ultimate. Chuck a Frostbite here and there, and it'll be an easy win.

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Kha'Zix The recent nerfs have hurt Kha'Zix, when he goes to last hit minions, throw a Flash Frost on his face followed by a Frostbite. Post 6 save your Flash Frost for when he jumps on you, so harrass him with Frostbite-> Glacial Storm

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Lux Lux is fairly easy to beat, just make sure to dodge her Light Binding. Lux will most likely stop moving when she starts casting her spells, so capitalize on that by stunning her with Flash Frost in your Glacial Storm. Don't get baited with her Prismatic Barrier as it acts as two shields.

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Mordekaiser Poke him with your Frostbite-> Glacial Storm combo as much as possible and when he's low enough go all in with Frostbite-> Glacial Storm-> Flash Frost. Recommended to take Ignite in this match-up.

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Morgana Not the hardest match-up for Anivia, just don't get baited by her Black Shield negating the frost effect that Glacial Storm and Flash Frost proc. If hit by a Dark Binding make sure to Crystallize her away from you so her full Soul Shackles won't stun.

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Riven If Riven decided to try to go on you, just throw a Flash Frost-> Frostbite at her and walk away. Farm safely with Anivia's long range and poke her down with Frostbite-> Glacial Storm. Use Crystallize after she has used Valor.

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Ryze Ryze has really short range with his spells and auto attacks. He also has no real gap closers so a good Flash Frost stun in a Glacial Storm should hurt him A LOT!

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Twisted Fate Make sure to call MIA during a Destiny and you're all good. Note that Crystallize on Twisted Fate's face will stop him from teleporting. Just farm with Glacial Storm and hit him whenever you can.

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Veigar Veigar wants to Baleful Strike all the minions! Stop that by using a Frostbite-> Glacial Storm combo. Try not to build too much Ability Power without much Magic Resist. An Abyssal Mask is a good buy along with Mercury's Treads.

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Ziggs This is a serious farm festival! Be careful of Satchel Charge as it will stop Glacial Storm's channel. Ziggs isn't the most mobile champions, so a good all in combo can work really well. Make sure Rebirth is up before going all in however.

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Skill Match-ups

Skill match-ups are fairly even and usually the better player should win. Careful of letting your lane snowball.

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Ahri Ahri's Charm doesn't stop the Glacial Storm channel, so make sure you have Glacial Storm down before getting charmed. Try not to throw out a Flash Frost while she is using Spirit Rush as she'll just dodge it.

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Akali This girl is very easy to handle early game, however post 6 she becomes quite a bit harder to deal with. Akali has no abilities to stop Glacial Storm's channel so when she jumps on you, you should ult at your feet and hit a point blank Flash Frost followed by a Frostbite. Use Crystallize so she cant escape your Glacial Storm

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Annie Annie has terrible ranged waveclear, so you'd want to try to group and seige towers. There is not much you can do if you get Summon: Tibbers. Make sure you watch her Pyromania stacks, and when she has none, that would be your best time to go in for a kill.

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Cassiopeia You might have a bit of trouble against a pre 6 Cassiopeia due to her waveclear and damage output. post 6 try not to auto attack her very much as that's when she will use Petrifying Gaze on you. Crystallize can be used very well to cut her off when she tried to escape.

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Katarina Prepare to eat Bouncing Bladess all through laning phase. Post 6 save your Flash Frost for when Katarina starts using Death Lotus. Her Voracity won't activate when you go into egg form, so use that to bait her in teamfights.

Sinister Steel

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Lulu Glitterlance is an amazing waveclear and poke tool that Lulu has. If you can dodge most of her spells you will be fine in lane. Don't try to go all in on her post 6 due to her ultimate Wild Growth. Frostbite-> Glacial Storm will provide a lot of poke post 6. You will outscale Lulu in damage by about mid game.

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Malzahar Malzahar is definitely under played at the moment, however he could quite possibly have the easiest minion wave clear ability with Malefic Visions. He has really low mobility so a good Flash Frost stun within Glacial Storm will hurt him quite a bit, but be ready to lose a lot of health from Nether Grasp. Post 6 your farming should be on par with his.

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Nidalee Probably my most hated champion in League of Legends. Post 6 when she goes into cougar form to waveclear, try and stun her in your Glacial Storm and Frostbite her. Use Crystallize after she has used Pounce. In teamfights, if you can catch her out, make sure to burst her hard due to her heals.

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Orianna Orianna is quite a tough match-up for Anivia however post 6 we can just farm minions then go farm jungle camps. Be careful when you go all in on her as her Command: Shockwave will stop the Glacial Storm channel. Late game, she has no mobility so a good Crystallize blocking her from getting through will either mean she'll die or use Flash.

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Syndra First off, you'll want some Magic Resist for this match-up as she will want to be targeting either you or the Marksman on your team. In team fights you can bait her to use Unleashed Power if you have Rebirth up to reduce her damage output by a lot. While laning verse her, try to dodge as many Dark Spheres as you can and try to focus on farming.

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Xerath Xerath is actually quite strong against Anivia due to her low mobility and focus on long range. It is quite hard to hit Flash Frost on him because he'll be quite far away so best way is to farm until you get a gank which then use Crystallize to block him from running. In team fights, a good Crystallize blocking him from kiting can be very beneficial.

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Yasuo While laning vs Yasuo try to break his Way of the Wanderer shield by throwing a long range auto attack at him. If he tries to go all in on you, throw a Flash Frost at your feet and Frostbite him. Try and bait his Wind Wall with your auto attacks. Walk to the side to use Frostbite if he has his wall up. In team fights, Anivia can really stop Yasuo by stunning him after he has used his ultimate.

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Hard Match-ups

This lane is a hard one, however it can still be easily won by skill, experience and precision.

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Diana A good Diana can be a scary match up post 6. Her Moonfall can stop Glacial Storms channel, and her immense sticking power is hard to deal with due to Anivia's low mobility. In team fights, try to Flash Frost stun her when she Lunar Rushes to an ally or yourself. Easy to Crystallize when she is running away.

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Fizz Fizz can dodge you Frostbite with Playful / Trickster. Post 6 if you get to close, he can Chum the Waters on you and burst you down so fast. If you're going to die in lane, try and use Rebirth under tower so he can't kill you. In team fights, a Zhonya's Hourglass is a good pick up to negate the damage from Fizz.

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Kassadin The new Kassadin hits like a truck and after fixing his Null Sphere to stop Glacial Storm he has become more a pain to deal with. A good idea would be to shut down early so he doesn't reach his power spike until much later in the game. Post 6 save your Flash Frost for after he uses Riftwalk. Save your Glacial Storm for after he Null Spheres you as well. Late game don't worry about chasing him as Anivia is almost useless at chasing a Kassadin.

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Leblanc LeBlanc is just so strong right now! She has so much single target crowd control so an early Mercury's Treads is a good buy. Lots of Magic Resist would be very good as well as her target is you. Last hit as many minions as you can Pre 6, as there isn't much else Anivia can do. Post 6, you can harrass her a bit with Frostbite-> Glacial Storm as she won't have much Magic Resist at all. Focus on out scaling her by team fights.

Sigil of Silence

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Talon A good Talon is the scariest thing ever, good thing there isn't many good Talons. Don't use Flash Frost often in lane, because he will just cutthroat to you and nuke you. call MIA as Talon loves to roam and pick up kills. Throw auto attacks at him and poke him as much as you can as he is melee and has weak early game. Picking up an Oracle's Lens at level 9 can stop him going invisible from Shadow Assault.

Mercy Cutthroat

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Zed Buy Zhonya's Hourglass in this match-up, it will stop his Death Mark from dealing any damage. If he has used Living Shadow to farm, that is your best chance to go in for a kill. Dodge his Razor Shuriken poke and you should stay at a decent high health. Zed falls off a bit in team fights however can still deal a huge amount of damage and run away, make sure you use Zhonya's Hourglass.

Just a way to spice up voting :) more votes, more bonus things I'll include in the guide. I would still appreciate lots of constructive criticism to make this guide better.

10 Votes Will add a rewards system :D 15 Votes Will expand the crystallize section with more types of walls 20 Votes Will add a Synergy section to the guide 30 Votes Will update the graphics on the crystallize section to have in game graphics instead of paint 50 Votes Will add a Hall of Fame section to the guide 100 Votes Will have Anivia 1v1's on Howling Abyss with people

A huge thank you to Emikadon for help with the graphics for my guide. Should check out her guides;

• Morgana Guide
• Diana Guide
• Jinx Guide
• Lulu Guide

23/05/2014

First published, still in need of finishing Crystallize.

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24/05/2014

Have added two parts to Crystallize.

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28/05/2014

Have updated the whole guide visuals and some sections.

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03/06/2014

Added Skill Sequence, Item Damage Comparison, Match-up Index and Rewards. Updated Starting Items.

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13/07/2014

Added a 'back to top' button to all sections and match-ups on the cheat sheet. Sorry for being lazy recently, been extra busy!

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19/02/2015

Back to working on my guide, completed a new Match-Ups and updated Introduction

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