Katarina vs Anivia
How to Beat Anivia as Katarina
based on 1,848 Katarina vs Anivia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Anivia Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Anivia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Anivia as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Anivia
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Advice to Win Against Anivia
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.
Katarina vs Anivia Counter Stats
How to Counter Anivia with Katarina in LoL
The stats provided here clarify some influential Katarina against Anivia matchup statistics that can help you explain the differences between the pair. For instance, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Anivia’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Anivia. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Katarina usually has a much larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Anivia. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Katarina and Anivia
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Who is Better, Katarina or Anivia?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually wins when playing against Anivia, with a 51.1% win rate. Thus, Katarina makes a good counter for Anivia.
While Katarina does have a higher winrate than Anivia, when on opposite teams, Katarina also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less complex champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Katarina into Aniviaas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Katarina has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Anivia. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Anivia matchups, Katarina is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Katarina is a decent counter to Anivia. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Katarina against Anivia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Katarina in order 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 listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina most often accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Anivia. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Katarina versus Anivia build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Shadowflame. When Katarina used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better countering Anivia than with many other common item sets. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 51.1% battling Anivia with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Anivia as Katarina, Katarina players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Katarina vs Anivia matchups, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.1% winrate overall.
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