Anivia vs Gwen
How to Beat Gwen as Anivia
based on 1,151 Anivia vs Gwen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Anivia vs Gwen Matchup Summary
Best Anivia vs Gwen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gwen as Anivia
Tips for Playing as Anivia against Gwen
Timing Flash Frost with Frostbite can lead to devastating combinations.
It can be very difficult for enemy champions to kill her egg early in game. Seize the advantage by playing aggressively.
Anivia is extremely reliant on Mana for Glacial Storm. Try getting items with Mana or going for a Crest of the Ancient Golem buff on Summoner's Rift.
Advice to Win Against Gwen
Gwen must hit something to recast her Ultimate, try to evade her between casts.
Gwen needs to attack a few times to set up her damage, so try to get the jump on her.
Gwen's Hallowed Mist shroud will only follow her once, after that it will dissipate when she leaves.
Anivia vs Gwen Counter Stats
How to Counter Gwen with Anivia in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize several significant Anivia versus Gwen matchup stats that may help you understand the distinctions between the pair. Anivia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Gwen’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Anivia may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Gwen..
Anivia usually has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Gwen. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Anivia and Gwen
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Who is Better, Anivia or Gwen?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Anivia usually loses when facing off against Gwen, with a 47.9% win rate. Therefore, Anivia makes a bad counter for Gwen.
While Anivia does have a lower win rate compared to Gwen, when facing one another, Anivia also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging champ to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Anivia into Gwenas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Anivia also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Gwen. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Anivia vs Gwen matchups, Gwen is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Anivia is a trash counter for Gwen. Focus your actions on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Anivia against Gwen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Anivia in order to counter Gwen during both the lane 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 listen to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Anivia usually picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Gwen. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to use in your Anivia versus Gwen build include Seraph's Embrace, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Anivia included at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better against Gwen than with many other common builds. In fact, Anivia had an average winrate of 47.9% when countering Gwen with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Gwen as Anivia, Anivia players should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Anivia vs Gwen battles, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.9% winrate overall.
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