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.
Yasuo's shield from Resolve lasts only 2 seconds. Dealing damage to him will trigger it. Wait it out, then engage.
Steel Tempest is very narrow. Dodge laterally if possible.
Yasuo is at his weakest just after he has launched a whirlwind. Engage at that point.
When Yasuo lands two Steel Tempests in a row, his next will fire a tornado. Watch and listen for the associated sound to prepare to dodge.
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature some influential Anivia against Yasuo counter stats that can help you grasp the differences between the pair. As an example, Anivia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Yasuo’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Anivia may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Yasuo..
Anivia usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her counter does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Yasuo. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Anivia usually wins when playing against Yasuo, with a 52.3% win rate. Therefore, Anivia makes a good counter for Yasuo.
While Anivia does have a higher winrate compared to Yasuo, when they face off with one another, Anivia also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging character to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Anivia into Yasuoas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Anivia has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Yasuo. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Anivia vs Yasuo matchups, Anivia is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Anivia is a good counter for Yasuo. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Anivia against Yasuo.
If you would like to truly master Anivia in order to counter Yasuo during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Anivia usually picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Yasuo. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They 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, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to use in your Anivia versus Yasuo build include Malignance, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Anivia used at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting Yasuo than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Anivia had an average winrate of 52.3% when playing against Yasuo with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Yasuo as Anivia, you should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Anivia vs Yasuo matchups, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.3% winrate overall.
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