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Anivia Mid build & stats

Mage C 2,232 games · patch 16.17
Win rate
50.0%
Pick rate
2.4%
Ban rate
2.7%
Division
Master
Build, runes, spells and skill order are from Master games only.

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 gold
Health Potion
Health Potion
50 gold
Health Potion
Health Potion
50 gold
52.9% 87 games

Build in this order

Rod of Ages 1
Rod of Ages
2,600 gold
Archangel's Staff 2
Archangel's Staff
2,900 gold
Liandry's Torment 3
Liandry's Torment
3,000 gold
8,500 gold
77.8% WR 9 games

Boots

Chainlaced Crushers
Chainlaced Crushers
1,250 gold
58.4% 77 games

Runes

Domination Domination + Precision Precision
67.7% WR
31 games · 1% pick
Electrocute
Electrocute

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

Domination Domination
Electrocute Dark Harvest Hail of Blades
Cheap Shot Taste of Blood Sudden Impact
Sixth Sense Grisly Mementos Deep Ward
Relentless Hunter Ultimate Hunter Treasure Hunter
Precision Precision
Presence of Mind Absorb Life Triumph
Legend: Bloodline Legend: Alacrity Legend: Haste
Coup de Grace Cut Down Last Stand
Shards
Adaptive Force Attack Speed Ability Haste
Adaptive Force Move Speed Health Scaling
Health Tenacity and Slow Resist Health Scaling

Summoner spells

Flash Ignite
50.3% 179 games

Max order

Frostbite E Crystallize W Flash Frost Q
58.8% 17 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 50.0% of games as Mid on patch 16.17 (2,232 games).
  • Most common core: Rod of Ages → Malignance → Zhonya's Hourglass — 58% win rate over 19 games.
  • Take Electrocute as keystone: picked in 58% of games with a 50% win rate.
  • Best matchup: Riven (67% over 9 games). Hardest: Swain (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
44.4% WR
9 games · 0% pick
Rod of Ages 1
Rod of Ages
Archangel's Staff 2
Archangel's Staff
Liandry's Torment 3
Liandry's Torment
77.8% WR
9 games · 0% pick
Malignance 1
Malignance
Cosmic Drive 2
Cosmic Drive
Zhonya's Hourglass 3
Zhonya's Hourglass
100.0% WR
3 games · 0% pick

Starting items

Doran's Ring
Doran's Ring
Health Potion
Health Potion
Health Potion
Health Potion
52.9% WR
87 games · 4% pick

Boots

Spellslinger's Shoes
Spellslinger's Shoes
51.4% WR
251 games · 11% pick
Swiftmarch
Swiftmarch
50.6% WR
243 games · 11% pick
Chainlaced Crushers
Chainlaced Crushers
58.4% WR
77 games · 3% pick

Legendary items by win rate

ItemWin ratePick
64.7% 1% (17)
62.5% 1% (16)
61.5% 1% (26)
54.5% 16% (367)
53.8% 1% (13)
53.8% 1% (13)
53.5% 8% (187)
51.9% 1% (27)
50.0% 2% (38)
49.8% 27% (613)
46.9% 7% (162)
33.3% 1% (18)

Runes

Most played full pages and keystone win rates

Domination Domination + Precision Precision
44.2% WR
52 games · 2% pick
Electrocute
Electrocute

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

Domination Domination
Electrocute Dark Harvest Hail of Blades
Cheap Shot Taste of Blood Sudden Impact
Sixth Sense Grisly Mementos Deep Ward
Relentless Hunter Ultimate Hunter Treasure Hunter
Precision Precision
Presence of Mind Absorb Life Triumph
Legend: Bloodline Legend: Alacrity Legend: Haste
Coup de Grace Cut Down Last Stand
Shards
Adaptive Force Attack Speed Ability Haste
Adaptive Force Move Speed Health Scaling
Health Tenacity and Slow Resist Health Scaling
Domination Domination + Sorcery Sorcery
44.7% WR
47 games · 2% pick
Electrocute Cheap Shot Grisly Mementos Relentless Hunter Manaflow Band Scorch
Domination Domination + Precision Precision
51.3% WR
39 games · 2% pick
Electrocute Cheap Shot Grisly Mementos Relentless Hunter Presence of Mind Coup de Grace

Keystones

  • Electrocute Electrocute Hitting a champion with 3 separate attacks or abilities in 3s deals bonus adaptive damage. 49.4%20% pick
  • Deathfire Touch Deathfire Touch Damaging a champion with an ability burns them over time. 49.7%7% pick
  • Arcane Comet Arcane Comet Damaging a champion with an ability hurls a damaging comet at their location. 51.1%2% pick
  • Stormraider's Surge Stormraider's Surge Dealing 25% of a champion's maximum health grants a burst of MS and Slow Resist. 35.1%2% pick

Summoner spells

  • Flash Teleport Flash + Teleport 48.3%21% pick
  • Flash Ignite Flash + Ignite 50.3%8% pick
  • Exhaust Flash Exhaust + Flash 57.1%0% pick

Abilities & skill order

Which ability to max first, from match timelines

Frostbite E Flash Frost Q Crystallize W 53.7%54 games
Frostbite E Crystallize W Flash Frost Q 58.8%17 games

Most common first three levels: Q → E → E (47%), Q → E → W (65%), E → Q → E (53%).

  • 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.