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.
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
The Anivia Kassadin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kassadin, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Anivia sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kassadin. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Kassadin helps Anivia perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Anivia is an ally to Kassadin, she observes a moderate decrease in her full damage dealt. This difference could signal that Kassadin does not support by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Anivia is played with Kassadin on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Kassadin. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Kassadin.
Additionally, when Anivia plays with Kassadin on the same team, she on average receives less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Kassadin does a decent job of protecting Anivia during team fights.
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Anivia that will no matter what be her #1 ally. Yet, Kassadin is a very bad teammate for Anivia. By being on the same side as Anivia, he lowers their win rate by -4.3% to 46.6%. This proves that there is a very bad synergy between Anivia and Kassadin that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Kassadin has a lower difficulty than Anivia. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Kassadin allies to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing together, Anivia players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by grouping Anivia and Kassadin together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates a lot of sustained damage output. Plan to include other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Kassadin ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Anivia to pair well with Kassadin during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to get in your Anivia and Kassadin synergy build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Solstice Sleigh, and Rod of Ages. When Anivia combined at least these three finished items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Kassadin than with most other typical builds. In fact, Anivia boasted an average winrate of 46.6% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Kassadin with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Anivia and Kassadin pairings, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.6% win rate overall.
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