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.
Poppy can stop nearby enemies from dashing with Steadfast Presence.
When Poppy starts to spin her hammer, she is charging Keeper's Verdict.
You can step on Poppy's shield to deny it from her.
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several valuable Anivia versus Poppy counter statistics that may help you realize the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. Anivia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Poppy’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Anivia may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Poppy..
Anivia often has a similar longest kill spree as her foe does. Typically, she receives less damage than Poppy. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Anivia usually wins when playing against Poppy, with a 52.6% win rate. As a result, Anivia makes a good counter for Poppy.
While Anivia does have a higher winrate than Poppy, when on opposite teams, Anivia also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more complex champion to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Anivia into Poppyas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Anivia has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Poppy. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Anivia vs Poppy 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 team members during late stage team fights.
Anivia is a good counter to Poppy. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Anivia against Poppy.
To truly master Anivia in order to counter Poppy during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Anivia on average picks up more CS as Poppy. Champs who typically don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Anivia versus Poppy build include Seraph's Embrace, Malignance, and Rod of Ages. When Anivia included at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when fighting Poppy than with most other common item sets. In fact, Anivia boasted an average win rate of 52.6% battling Poppy with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating Poppy as Anivia, you should equip 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 we have analyed for Anivia vs Poppy clashes, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.6% winrate overall.
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