Talk:Anivia/@comment-26837195-20160908014514/@comment-26808509-20160914230932

There still are heavy benefits Tear bring to Anivia, manly the mana refund, which lets you ult forever and benefit from the growing effect (if placed correctly tho) and the high mana cost on Q and E don't matter anymore. Tear also has a good synergy with other Items you want to buy on her (like RoA or Morellos). The shield active also is pretty good on her.

It is true however, that it isn't really efficient in early game and in the current meta the games rarely last until late game or are allready decieded in the early phases of the game, so it is possible tp skip Tear. But I would only do it if I have some form of lead in the laning phase, otherwise you would need to farm and scale anyways.