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.
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
The Anivia Xerath synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xerath, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Anivia sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Xerath. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Xerath helps Anivia perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Anivia plays on the same team as Xerath, she sees a small decrease in her full damage output. This change may indicate that Xerath does not provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Anivia is played alongside Xerath on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Xerath.
Moreover, when Anivia plays with Xerath on the same team, she usually receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Xerath does a poor job of covering Anivia during team fights.
There is no top ally for Anivia that will 100% of the time be her top teammate. Yet, overall, Xerath is a not very good ally for Anivia. By being on the same team as Anivia, he drops their win rate by -1.5% to 49.4%. This shows that there is a bad strategic relationship between Anivia and Xerath that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Xerath has a lower difficulty than Anivia. That means Anivia players don't need to be cautious when lining up Xerath allies to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Anivia players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Anivia and Xerath together, you probably will not be providing your side very much attack damage. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Xerath teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
To truly master Anivia to synergize with Xerath during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to build first in your Anivia and Xerath synergy build include Malignance, Liandry's Torment, and Rod of Ages. When Anivia combined at least these three finished items in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Xerath than with many other typical builds. In fact, Anivia boasted an average winrate of 49.4% helping carry Xerath with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, 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. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Anivia and Xerath pairings, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Xerath with Anivia are shown for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct division, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.