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 spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.
Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.
Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.
The stats shown here emphasize some important Anivia against K'Sante matchup stats that can help you distinguish the differences between the pair. As an example, Anivia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than K'Sante’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Anivia may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than K'Sante..
Anivia usually has a similar longest kill spree as her foe does. Commonly, she receives less damage than K'Sante. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Anivia usually wins when playing against K'Sante, with a 53.2% win rate. Therefore, Anivia makes a great counter for K'Sante.
While Anivia does have a higher winrate compared to K'Sante, when facing one another, Anivia also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Anivia into K'Santeas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Anivia has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to K'Sante. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Anivia vs K'Sante matchups, Anivia is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Anivia is a great counter to K'Sante. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Anivia against K'Sante.
If you would like to truly master Anivia in order to counter K'Sante during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather 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 often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to K'Sante. Champs who on average don't take much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Anivia versus K'Sante build include Seraph's Embrace, Malignance, and Rod of Ages. When Anivia incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when facing K'Sante than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Anivia boasted an average winrate of 53.2% battling K'Sante with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing K'Sante as Anivia, Anivia players should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Anivia vs K'Sante clashes, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 53.2% win rate overall.
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