Anivia

Recommended Build

Patch 16.11 · Diamond+ Solo Queue · Updated 6/9/2026

49.5% Based on 438 games wr in Mid

Build path

1. Boots any step
   

   Boots of Swiftness

   1000 gold

   55 Move Speed
   
   Fleetfooted
   Reduce the effectiveness of Slows by 25%.

   Boots of Swiftness

   42% pick · 51.1% Based on 176 picks wr
2. Item 1
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     Doran's Ring

     400 gold

     18 Ability Power
     90 Health
     
     Drain
     Restore 1 Mana every second, increased to 2 Mana per second for 5 seconds after dealing damage to an enemy champion. If you can't gain Mana, heal for 45% of this value instead.
     
     Helping Hand
     Attacks deal 5 bonus physical damage to minions.
     Doran's Ring

     100% pick · 49.5% Based on 436 picks wr
3. Item 2
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     Rod of Ages

     2600 gold

     45 Ability Power
     350 Health
     500 Mana
     
     Timeless
     This item gains 10 Health, 30 Mana and 3 Ability Power every 60 seconds up to 10 times. Upon reaching max stacks, gain a level.
     
     Eternity
     Taking damage from champions restores 10% of the damage as Mana.
     Casting an ability heals for 25% of Mana spent.
     Rod of Ages

     97% pick · 49.6% Based on 417 picks wr
4. Item 3 2 options
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     Malignance

     2700 gold

     90 Ability Power
     600 Mana
     15 Ability Haste
     
     Scorn
     Gain 20 Ultimate Ability Haste.
     
     Hatefog
     Damaging a champion with your Ultimate burns the ground beneath them for 3s, dealing magic damage per second and reducing their Magic Resist.
     
     Malignance

     51% pick · 49.2% Based on 195 picks wr
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     Archangel's Staff

     2900 gold

     70 Ability Power
     600 Mana
     25 Ability Haste
     
     Awe
     Gain Ability Power equal to 1% bonus Mana.
     
     Manaflow (8s, max 5 charges)
     Landing Abilities grants 5 max Mana (doubled vs. champions).
     Transforms into Seraph's Embrace at 360 max Mana.
     or Archangel's Staff

     34% pick · 55.3% Based on 132 picks wr
5. Item 4 3 options
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     Zhonya's Hourglass

     3250 gold

     105 Ability Power
     50 Armor
     
     
     
     Time Stop
     Enter Stasis for 2.5 seconds.
     Zhonya's Hourglass

     30% pick · 43.1% Based on 72 picks wr
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     Liandry's Torment

     3000 gold

     60 Ability Power
     300 Health
     
     Torment
     Damaging Abilities burn enemies for 2% max Health magic damage per second for 3 seconds.
     
     Suffering
     For each second in combat with enemy champions, deal 2% bonus damage, up to 6%.
     or Liandry's Torment

     20% pick · 38.3% Based on 47 picks wr
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     Malignance

     2700 gold

     90 Ability Power
     600 Mana
     15 Ability Haste
     
     Scorn
     Gain 20 Ultimate Ability Haste.
     
     Hatefog
     Damaging a champion with your Ultimate burns the ground beneath them for 3s, dealing magic damage per second and reducing their Magic Resist.
     
     or Malignance

     10% pick · 80.0% Based on 25 picks wr

Most-built legendary at each step (purchase order).

Summoner spells

Flash

Teleports you a short distance toward your cursor.

Flash +

Teleport

After a brief channel, become untargetable and travel to an allied unit. Upgrades into Unleashed Teleport, which significantly increases travel speed.

Teleport 82% · 50.1% Based on 359 picks wr

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Q Flash Frost

Anivia brings her wings together and summons a sphere of ice that flies towards her opponents, chilling and damaging anyone in its path. When the sphere explodes it does moderate damage in a radius, stunning anyone in the area.

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W Crystallize

Anivia condenses the moisture in the air into an impassable wall of ice to block all movement. The wall only lasts a short duration before it melts.

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E Frostbite

With a flap of her wings, Anivia blasts a freezing gust of wind at her target, dealing damage. If the target was recently hit by Flash Frost or damaged by a fully formed Glacial Storm, the damage they take is doubled.

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R Glacial Storm

Anivia summons a driving rain of ice and hail to damage her enemies and slow their advance.

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Domination

Electrocute · selected

Hitting a champion with 3 separate attacks or abilities in 3s deals bonus adaptive damage.

Dark Harvest

Damaging a low health champion inflicts adaptive damage and harvests a soul from the victim.

Hail of Blades

Gain a large amount of Attack Speed and bonus true damage for the first 3 attacks made against enemy champions.

Cheap Shot

Deal bonus true damage to enemy champions with impaired movement or actions.

Taste of Blood · selected

Heal when you damage an enemy champion.

Sudden Impact

Damaging basic attacks and abilities deal bonus true damage to enemy champions after using a dash, leap, blink, teleport, or when leaving stealth.

Sixth Sense · selected

On a long Cooldown, automatically sense a nearby untracked and unseen ward, tracking it for the team.

Level 11: Also reveal the ward for 10s.

Grisly Mementos

Collect 1 memento on champion takedowns, up to 18 total.

Gain 6 Trinket Haste for each collected.

Deep Ward

Your wards in the enemy jungle are Deep, gaining Health and Duration.

Level 9: Wards in the river are also Deep.

Treasure Hunter

Unique takedowns grant additional gold the first time they are collected.

Relentless Hunter · selected

Unique takedowns grant permanent out of combat MS.

Ultimate Hunter

Unique takedowns grant permanent cooldown reduction on your Ultimate.

Sorcery

Axiom Arcanist

Your Ultimate has increased damage, healing, and shielding. Scoring a takedown on an enemy champion reduces your Ultimate's current cooldown.

Manaflow Band · selected

Hitting an enemy champion with an ability permanently increases your maximum mana by 25, up to 250 mana.

After reaching 250 bonus mana, restore 1% of your missing mana every 5 seconds.

Nimbus Cloak

After casting a Summoner Spell, gain a short Move Speed increase that allows you to pass through units.

Transcendence

Gain bonuses upon reaching the following levels:
Level 5: +5 Ability Haste
Level 8: +5 Ability Haste
Level 11: On Champion takedown, reduce the remaining cooldown of basic abilities by 20%.

Celerity

All Move Speed bonuses are 7% more effective on you and gain 1% Move Speed.

Absolute Focus

While above 70% health, gain extra adaptive damage.

Scorch · selected

Your first damaging ability hit every 10s burns champions.

Waterwalking

Gain MS and AP or AD, adaptive in the river.

Gathering Storm

Gain increasing amounts of AD or AP, adaptive over the course of the game.

Stat shards

Adaptive Force

+9 Adaptive Force (AD or AP — whichever helps more).

Attack Speed · selected

+10% Attack Speed.

Ability Haste

+8 Ability Haste.

Adaptive Force · selected

+9 Adaptive Force (AD or AP — whichever helps more).

Move Speed

+2% Move Speed.

Bonus Health

+10–180 Bonus Health (based on level).

Health · selected

+65 flat Health.

Tenacity & Slow Resist

+10% Tenacity and Slow Resist.

Bonus Health

+10–180 Bonus Health (based on level).