Anivia vs Zed
How to Beat Zed as Anivia
based on 2,087 Anivia vs Zed matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Anivia vs Zed Matchup Summary
Best Anivia vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zed as Anivia
Tips for Playing as Anivia against Zed
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.
Advice to Win Against Zed
Zed's Shadow Slash can only slow you if his shadow hits you with it.
Zed receives bonus effect from Attack Damage items he purchases, so Armor is super effective against him.
After Zed uses his Living Shadow, he is at his most vulnerable as his damage, slow, and mobility are both dependent upon it.
Anivia vs Zed Counter Stats
How to Counter Zed with Anivia in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several vital Anivia against Zed matchup stats that may help you understand the distinctions between the two. Anivia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zed’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Anivia may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Zed..
Anivia normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she takes more damage than Zed. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Anivia and Zed
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Who is Better, Anivia or Zed?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Anivia usually fairs equally well when facing off against Zed, with a 50.2% win rate. As a result, Anivia makes an ok counter to Zed.
While Anivia does have a higher win rate than Zed, when they face off with one another, Anivia also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Anivia into Zedas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Anivia has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zed. 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Anivia vs Zed matchups, Anivia is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Anivia is a decent counter to Zed. Focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Anivia against Zed.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Anivia in order to counter Zed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Anivia typically picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Zed. Champs who typically don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Anivia versus Zed build include Seraph's Embrace, Liandry's Torment, and Rod of Ages. When Anivia bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better countering Zed than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Anivia had an average win rate of 50.2% battling Zed with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Zed as Anivia, you should equip 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 runes we have analyed for Anivia vs Zed counterpicks, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.2% winrate overall.
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