Best Anivia Build Guide | Runes | Spells | Items in LoL

If you like magic damage champions in the mid lane, then Anivia is a good option for you to deal a lot of damage, have a good wave clear and, most importantly, create good gank opportunities for the jungler. Let's now see the best rune set, skill order, summoner spells, win rate and much more for Anivia!

Best Anivia Build

Anivia build is mostly focused on dealing high DPS to nearby enemies. Thanks to her ultimate, Anivia build can use two mythic items: Everfrost or Liandry's Anguish; in the case of everfrost, it gives the possibility to apply a CC chain to enemies, in the case of Liandry's Anguish, you will deal much damage to tank enemies plus a good wave clear, it's your choice to select the best mythic items depending of the match.

Best Anivia Runes

Most Anivia players recommend Domination and Electrocute as the first rune set, however, when talking about the secondary runes, some people recommend sorcery or precision to take advantage of presence of mind, coup de grace, eyeball collection, cheap shot, and relentless hunter to deal more damage to enemies and spend less mana during the lane phase.

Best Rune Path	Domination	Precision
Best Keystone	Electrocute
Best Slot 1 (Rune)	Cheap Shot	Presence of Mind
Best Slot 2 (Rune)	Eyeball Collection	Coup de Grace
Best Slot 3 (Rune)	Treasure Hunter

Best Anivia Rune Shards

On the other hand, the runes shards for Anivia are slightly different compared to a normal mage champion in the mid lane. So, you may use 1 Offense rune shard (+10% attack speed) , 1 Offense rune shard (+9 Adaptive force) and 1 Flex rune shard (+8 magic resist). The 10% attack speed shard will help you to last hit minions due the Anivia's auto attack is one of the worst in the game.

Best Rune Shards	Effect
Flex	+10% attack speed
Offense	+9 Adaptive Force
Defense	+8 Magic Resist

Best Anivia Summoner's Spells

If you like the Anivia battlemage playstyle, then you will be happy to know that Anivia mid is a powerful champion capable of easily deleting enemies and the summoner spells help to do it. You may use Flash and Ignite as summoner spells when playing Anivia, it will help to get the first blood!

Best Spells	Icon
Flash
Ignite

Best Anivia Abilities Order

About the skill order and skill priority for Anivia, it's really simple. You must level up Anivia's Flash Frost (Q) at level 1 and then max up Frostbite (E) and lastly Crystallize (W). Anivia is not an easy champion as many players think, but knowing the skill order for Anivia mid is really important to master this champion.

Best Anivia items

Once you know the ability order and Anivia runes, it's important to know what the best Anivia build is and how you can delete almost any enemy after hitting them with a successful Flash frost and Frostbite. So, Anivia build is focused on magical damage, low cooldowns and being able to apply CC to other champions.

Best Starter Anivia Items

Anivia mid, as any other mage champion, spends a lot of mana in the early stages of the game. For that reason, you can buy Tear of the Goddess or a Doran's ring as starter items. This will help you to spam your Flash frost without spending too much mana. But be careful, always take a look at your mana bar when trading with enemies.

First Item	Second Item
Doran’s Ring	Health Potion

Best Mid Game Anivia Items

When managing league of legends games with Anivia mid, you may consider building some boots in the early game to increase your movement speed and avoid enemy ganks. So, in the mid game, buy these items: Sorcerer's shoes, Everfrost and Seraph's Embrace.

First Item	Second Item	Third Item
Sorcerer's Shoes	Everfrost	Seraph's Embrace

Best Final Late Game Anivia Items

In the patch 12.16, the recommended late game item build for Anivia is: Everfrost, Sorcerer's shoes, Seraph's Embrace, Zhonya's Hourglass, Void staff and Morellonomicon. This item build will help you to deal a lot of damage, have a good wave clear and apply a very good CC chain to all enemies. But be careful, Anivia is a squishy and low mobility champion, so avoid walking alone without vision at the rift.

First Item	Second Item	Third Item	Fourth Item	Fifth Item	Sixth Item
Everfrost	Sorcerer's Shoes	Seraph's Embrace	Zhonya's Hourglass	Morellonomicon	Void staff

Best Champions to pair Anivia with

Skarner, Evelynn and Belveth are the best champions to team up with Anivia, they can get help from Anivia's burst damage and CC to take down any enemy champion at the rift. Try to also pair Anivia with high CC champions which can create an amazing CC chain to root enemy champions for a long time.

Champion	Win Rate %	Icon
Skarner	55%
Evelynn	55%
Bel'Veth	54%

Strongest Champions against Anivia

On the other hand, you must avoid playing Anivia against Swain, Katarina and Fizz. Those are champions that can easily burst Anivia and can take advantage of their abilities to get closer to Anivia and destroy her. Be really careful if you play against these champions, because Anivia is not the best against them.

Champion	Win Rate %	Icon
Swain	47%
Katarina	47%
Fizz	49%

Weakest Champions against Anivia

Lastly, Le Blanc, Twisted and Lissandra are really weak against Anivia, so you can play Anivia and use the item build we recommend against these champions and you will probably win lane priority to roam around the rift quickly.

Champion	Win Rate %	Icon
Leblanc	55%
Twisted Fate	55%
Lissandra	55%

If you're interested in learning more about champion builds, you can take a look at our guide about the best kogmaw build league of legends or check out our guide about the best leona build league of legends. See you at the summoner's rift!