Timing Flash Frost with Frostbite can lead to devastating combinations.
It can be very difficult for enemy champions to kill her egg early in game. Seize the advantage by playing aggressively.
Anivia is extremely reliant on Mana for Glacial Storm. Try getting items with Mana or going for a Crest of the Ancient Golem buff on Summoner's Rift.
Stay behind minions to make Charm difficult to land, this will reduce Ahri's damage potential significantly.
Ahri's survivability is dramatically reduced when her Ultimate, Spirit Rush, is down.
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several important Anivia against Ahri counter stats that may help you appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Anivia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Ahri’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Anivia may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Ahri..
Anivia typically has a similar longest killing spree as her counter does. Typically, she takes more damage than Ahri. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Anivia usually wins when playing against Ahri, with a 52.7% win rate. As a result, Anivia makes a good counter for Ahri.
While Anivia does have a higher winrate compared to Ahri, when on opposite teams, Anivia also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming character to learn. You should be be fine when picking Anivia into Ahrias her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Anivia has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ahri. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Anivia vs Ahri matchups, Anivia is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Anivia is an above average counter to Ahri. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Anivia against Ahri.
To truly master Anivia to counter Ahri during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Anivia on average racks up a similar amount of CS as Ahri. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Anivia versus Ahri build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Anivia combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when facing Ahri than with most other typical builds. In fact, Anivia had an average winrate of 52.7% battling Ahri with this counter build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Ahri as Anivia, Anivia players should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Anivia vs Ahri counter picks, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.7% winrate overall.
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