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.
Try to take advantage of Piercing Arrow's very long range to snipe at enemy champions before a fight or as they're trying to flee.
An early point in Blighted Quiver helps harass enemy champions and get killing blows on minions.
During short range fights it's sometimes best to fire Piercing Arrow quickly, rather than charging it to full power.
The Anivia Varus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Varus, 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 Varus. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Varus helps Anivia perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Anivia is paired with Varus, she gets a little drop in her total damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Varus does not help cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Anivia is played alongside Varus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Varus. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Varus.
Additionally, when Anivia plays with Varus on the same side, she usually takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Varus does a poor job of covering Anivia during teamfights.
There is no one best champion pairing for Anivia that will no matter what be her top synergy. However, Varus is a very typical teammate for Anivia. By being on the same team as Anivia, he drops their win rate by -0.4% to 50.5%. This signals that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Anivia and Varus that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Varus has a much lower diffuclty than Anivia. That means Anivia players don't need to be very careful when arranging Varus teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by pairing Anivia and Varus together, you may not be granting your other allies very much tankyness. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Varus ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Anivia to synergize with Varus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to get in your Anivia and Varus synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Rod of Ages. When Anivia used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Varus than with most other common builds. In fact, Anivia boasted an average winrate of 50.5% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Varus with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.5% winrate overall.
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