Talk:Anivia/Strategy/@comment-24165138-20131113181659

Playing Anivia I like to start faerie charm + consumbables, then rush tear and ROA. From here I build sorc boots, deathcap, seraphs, void, and zhonyas or DFG. The main difference in my build is I sacrifice the standard athenes and liandries for more dammage on q and e.

The main reason people build athenes + liandries is because they think anivia's most important skill is her ultimate just because it's her ultimate. When I play anivia I use the ultimate to apply chill and kite the enemy, it doesn't do the dps.

The massive burst on a 6 second cooldown  is much better than building for sustained dammage. Sustained dammage is really finicky because if you're in range to ult the enemy backline the frontline will cc you and you won't get any damage off and if you're ulting the frontline then you wont do much damage either.

Playing and building anivia as a true burst mage makes her more viable.