Zed vs Anivia
How to Beat Anivia as Zed
based on 2,087 Zed vs Anivia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Anivia Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Anivia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Anivia as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Anivia
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed vs Anivia Counter Stats
How to Counter Anivia with Zed in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore some significant Zed versus Anivia matchup statistics that can help you explain the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Anivia’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Anivia..
Zed typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Anivia. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zed and Anivia
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Who is Better, Zed or Anivia?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Zed usually fairs equally well when taking on Anivia, with a 49.8% win rate. Thus, Zed makes an ok counter to Anivia.
While Zed does have a lower winrate compared to Anivia, when on opposite teams, Zed also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Zed into Aniviaas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Zed also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Anivia. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zed vs Anivia matchups, Anivia is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Zed is a somewhat poor counter to Anivia. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Zed against Anivia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Zed to counter Anivia during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed usually picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Anivia. Champions who typically don't get much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Zed versus Anivia build consist of Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Axiom Arc. When Zed incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when facing Anivia than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Zed had an average win rate of 49.8% battling Anivia with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Anivia as Zed, Zed players should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Zed vs Anivia counterpicks, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.8% win rate overall.
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