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.
If Master Yi tries to farm with Alpha Strike, hit him a few times so he has to use mana with Meditate to heal.
Although Master Yi cannot be slowed while using Highlander, other disables can stop him in his tracks.
Meditate is an effective method of healing damage over time, but Master Yi is susceptible to coordinated team ganks early in the game.
The stats shown on this page feature some significant Anivia against Master Yi matchup statistics that may help you appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Anivia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Master Yi’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Anivia may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Master Yi..
Anivia often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her counter does. On average, she takes less damage than Master Yi. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Anivia usually fairs equally well when facing off against Master Yi, with a 49.5% win rate. Therefore, Anivia makes an ok counter to Master Yi.
While Anivia does have a lower winrate than Master Yi, when facing one another, Anivia also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Anivia into Master Yias her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Anivia also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Master Yi. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Anivia vs Master Yi matchups, Master Yi is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Anivia is a somewhat poor counter to Master Yi. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Anivia against Master Yi.
To truly master Anivia to counter Master Yi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Anivia typically racks up much more CS as Master Yi. Champions who on average don't get much CS often don't require 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, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Anivia versus Master Yi build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Rod of Ages. When Anivia combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better versus Master Yi than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Anivia had an average winrate of 49.5% battling Master Yi with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Master Yi 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 runes we have analyed for Anivia vs Master Yi clashes, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.5% win rate overall.
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