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.
The stats shown on this page emphasize some valuable Anivia against Vex counter stats that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Anivia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Vex’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Anivia may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Vex..
Anivia normally has a similar longest kill spree as her enemy does. Typically, she receives more damage than Vex. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Anivia usually wins when facing off against Vex, with a 54.0% win rate. Thus, Anivia makes a great counter to Vex.
While Anivia does have a much higher winrate compared to Vex, when on opposite teams, Anivia also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Anivia into Vexas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Anivia has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Vex. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Anivia vs Vex 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 team members during teamfights.
Anivia is a great counter for Vex. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Anivia against Vex.
If you would like to truly master Anivia to counter Vex during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Anivia typically accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Vex. Champions who on average don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Anivia versus Vex build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Malignance, and Rod of Ages. When Anivia combined at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better vs. Vex than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Anivia boasted an average win rate of 54.0% when countering Vex with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of beating Vex as Anivia, you 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 builds that we analyzed for Anivia vs Vex fights, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 54.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Vex as Anivia are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct skill level, you should use the selection menu at the top of this page.