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Anivia Top build & stats

Mage C 355 games · patch 16.17
Win rate
49.3%
Pick rate
2.0%
Ban rate
2.9%

Recommended build

Chosen by win rate among builds with enough games, from ranked matches of high-elo players on patch 16.17

Solid sample

Start with

Doran's Ring
Doran's Ring
400 g
Health Potion
Health Potion
50 g
Health Potion
Health Potion
50 g
50.7% 71 games

Build in this order

Rod of Ages 1
Rod of Ages
2,600 g
Malignance 2
Malignance
2,700 g
Zhonya's Hourglass 3
Zhonya's Hourglass
3,250 g
8,550 g
67.9% WR 28 games

Boots

Mercury's Treads
Mercury's Treads
1,250 g
69.2% 13 games

Runes

Sorcery Sorcery + Precision Precision
56.3% WR
16 games · 5% pick
Deathfire Touch
Deathfire Touch

Damaging a champion with an ability burns them over time.

Manaflow Band Manaflow Band
Transcendence Transcendence
Scorch Scorch
Cut Down Cut Down
Presence of Mind Presence of Mind
Shards AS AF HP

Summoner spells

Flash Ignite 57.0% 79 games

Max order

Frostbite E Crystallize W Flash Frost Q 72.2% 18 games

Each line is the variant with the best win rate among those played enough times, not simply the most popular one. Win rates are smoothed so a lucky three-game build can't top the list. Sample sizes are shown next to every choice.

Tips for Anivia

Generated from this patch's numbers

  • Anivia wins 49.3% of games as Top on patch 16.17 (355 games).
  • Most common core: Rod of Ages → Malignance → Zhonya's Hourglass — 67% win rate over 6 games.
  • Take Electrocute as keystone: picked in 55% of games with a 49% win rate.
  • Best matchup: Renekton (100% over 11 games). Hardest: Jax (20% over 10 games) — consider a ban or a different pick when you see it.

Items

Core build in purchase order (from match timelines)

Core build

Rod of Ages 1
Rod of Ages
Malignance 2
Malignance
Zhonya's Hourglass 3
Zhonya's Hourglass
66.7% WR
6 games · 2% pick
Rod of Ages 1
Rod of Ages
Imperial Mandate 2
Imperial Mandate
Archangel's Staff 3
Archangel's Staff
33.3% WR
3 games · 1% pick
Rod of Ages 1
Rod of Ages
Malignance 2
Malignance
Bloodletter's Curse 3
Bloodletter's Curse
66.7% WR
3 games · 1% pick

Starting items

Doran's Ring
Doran's Ring
Health Potion
Health Potion
Health Potion
Health Potion
50.7% WR
71 games · 20% pick

Boots

Boots of Swiftness
Boots of Swiftness
49.1% WR
216 games · 61% pick
Sorcerer's Shoes
Sorcerer's Shoes
47.5% WR
61 games · 17% pick
Ionian Boots of Lucidity
Ionian Boots of Lucidity
55.9% WR
34 games · 10% pick

Legendary items by win rate

ItemWin ratePick
100.0% 1% (4)
75.0% 1% (4)
75.0% 1% (4)
61.3% 9% (31)
58.1% 21% (74)
54.5% 3% (11)
53.8% 23% (80)
50.3% 45% (159)
48.7% 87% (308)
44.4% 3% (9)
41.7% 3% (12)
41.2% 5% (17)

Runes

Most played full pages and keystone win rates

Domination Domination + Precision Precision
52.4% WR
21 games · 6% pick
Electrocute
Electrocute

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

Cheap Shot Cheap Shot
Grisly Mementos Grisly Mementos
Relentless Hunter Relentless Hunter
Coup de Grace Coup de Grace
Presence of Mind Presence of Mind
Shards AS AF HP
Domination Domination + Sorcery Sorcery
55.6% WR
18 games · 5% pick
Electrocute Cheap Shot Grisly Mementos Relentless Hunter Manaflow Band Scorch
Sorcery Sorcery + Precision Precision
56.3% WR
16 games · 5% pick
Deathfire Touch Manaflow Band Transcendence Scorch Cut Down Presence of Mind

Keystones

  • Electrocute Electrocute Hitting a champion with 3 separate attacks or abilities in 3s deals bonus adaptive damage. 49.0%55% pick
  • Deathfire Touch Deathfire Touch Damaging a champion with an ability burns them over time. 49.5%27% pick
  • Arcane Comet Arcane Comet Damaging a champion with an ability hurls a damaging comet at their location. 37.5%9% pick
  • Stormraider's Surge Stormraider's Surge Dealing 25% of a champion's maximum health grants a burst of MS and Slow Resist. 52.4%6% pick

Summoner spells

  • Flash Teleport Flash + Teleport 46.7%73% pick
  • Flash Ignite Flash + Ignite 57.0%22% pick
  • Exhaust Flash Exhaust + Flash 50.0%3% pick

Abilities & skill order

Which ability to max first, from match timelines

Frostbite E Flash Frost Q Crystallize W 47.5%40 games
Frostbite E Crystallize W Flash Frost Q 72.2%18 games

Most common first three levels: Q → E → E (61%), E → Q → E (44%), Q → E → W (36%).

  • PRebirth

    Upon taking fatal damage, Anivia reverts to an egg and is reborn with full health.

  • QFlash 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 sphere explodes it does moderate damage in a radius, stunning anyone in th...

  • WCrystallize

    Anivia condenses the moisture in the air into an impassable wall of ice to block all movement. The wall only lasts a short duration before it melts.

  • EFrostbite

    With a flap of her wings, Anivia blasts a freezing gust of wind at her target, dealing damage. If the target was recently hit by Flash Frost or damaged by a fully formed Glacial Storm, the damage they take is doubled.

  • RGlacial Storm

    Anivia summons a driving rain of ice and hail to damage her enemies and slow their advance.