Talk:Anivia/Strategy/@comment-20434720-20130916235252/@comment-20434720-20140201065715

Thanks for the advice guys. To be fair, the range on Anivia's ult is 615 and it has a radius of 400, meaning that it can affect people from 1015 units away *instantly*, and Orianna's command: attack only has a range of 825 (+ that tiny radius)... Caitlyn's range is only 650, and even Anivia's E outranges that.

I think that the problem I was coming up against is that back when I wrote that, I was playing very aggressively, always trying to get kills on my lane opponent... and seeing as I'm not LeBlanc, Ezreal, Kassawin, Katarina, etc etc, Anivia has no qualms with that - If i'm going to put myself in range, I need to accept that I'm going to get hit. Which suggests that my playstyle at that point in time really was quite silly.

By the way, interesting piece of data: Anivia's R at rank 3 does only 30 less base DPS than Cassiopeia's E spam at rank 5. Even when more AP is built, Anivia's ult alone gives her 2/3 the DPS of Cassiopeia... now that's stronk! And of course, Anivia's Q and E do more than Cass's Q,W, and ult combined (especially with more AP).

Going purely by the numbers, Anivia looks to be a very, very strong champion. It's interesting that against assassins, I actually had less trouble than with anivia, simply because against assassins who have so much of their kit invested in mobility and utility,  I had a numbers advantage that doesn't exist against anivia.

Normally I would feel wrong playing a champion who's so strong, but if anivia is non-meta and rarely played, then well... I guess I just might have to -.^

(still think that the R->E is cheap. Dirt cheap.)