Use Demacian Standard as a scouting tool when worried about incoming enemies.
You can use the Dragon Strike / Demacian Standard combo to get out of your own Cataclysm arenas.
Split your basic attacks on different champions at the beginning of fights to maximize damage.
Try to gank Anivia when she's laning. With multiple people, it is easier to ensure that her egg dies.
If you're playing a ranged champion, stay far enough away from Anivia so you can dodge Flash Frost more easily.
Try to fight Anivia in the lanes. In the jungle she can block pathways with lower ranks of Crystallize.
The stats provided here feature several influential Jarvan IV versus Anivia matchup stats that can help us realize the distinctions between this set of champs. For instance, Jarvan IV’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Anivia’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Jarvan IV may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Anivia. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Jarvan IV usually has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Anivia. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Jarvan IV usually loses when taking on Anivia, with a 47.3% win rate. Therefore, Jarvan IV makes a poor counter for Anivia.
While Jarvan IV does have a lower winrate compared to Anivia, when on opposite teams, Jarvan IV also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Jarvan IV into Anivia.
Additionally, Jarvan IV has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Anivia. This often 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 Jarvan IV vs Anivia matchups, Anivia is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Jarvan IV is a trash counter to Anivia. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Jarvan IV against Anivia.
To learn all of the intricacies of Jarvan IV to counter Anivia during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jarvan IV most often picks up a lot less CS as Anivia. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Jarvan IV versus Anivia build include Experimental Hexplate, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Jarvan IV incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs. Anivia than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Jarvan IV boasted an average win rate of 47.3% when playing against Anivia with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Anivia as Jarvan IV, Jarvan IV players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Jarvan IV vs Anivia face-offs, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Anivia as Jarvan IV are displayed for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a distinct skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.