Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
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 Aatrox Anivia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Anivia, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Aatrox sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Anivia. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Anivia helps Aatrox perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Aatrox is an ally to Anivia, he observes a small increase in his total damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Anivia helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Aatrox is played together with Anivia on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Anivia.
Additionally, when Aatrox plays with Anivia on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Anivia does a poor job of covering Aatrox during teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best companion for Aatrox that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Anivia is a good companion for Aatrox. By locking into the same side as Aatrox, she raises their win rate by 1.4% to 51.8%. This clearly indicates that there is a somewhat important bond between Aatrox and Anivia that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Anivia has a much greater difficulty compared to Aatrox. That means you should be cautious when enlisting Anivia allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much higher level of skill to work well with you.
When playing together, Aatrox players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by pairing Aatrox and Anivia together, you may not be providing your team very much protection for burst damage. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Anivia teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Aatrox in order to pair well with Anivia during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to build first in your Aatrox and Anivia synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Sundered Sky. When Aatrox bought at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Anivia than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Aatrox boasted an average winrate of 51.8% helping carry Anivia with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, Aatrox players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Aatrox and Anivia pairings, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.8% winrate overall.
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