Urgot vs Anivia Counter Pick

Anivia’s range is 600 against Urgot’s 350, a 250-unit gap that accounts for most of the 45.8% win rate Urgot posted across 118 games on patch 16.13.1. Once she is in reach, though, she is about as fragile as a champion gets, starting at 550 health and 19 Armor and reaching only 2,114 health and 88.7 Armor. The hard part is closing the distance.

Two of her abilities make that work. Crystallize throws up an ice wall that blocks passage, so Disdain ends up as a shielded dash that burns Mana for nothing. Glacial Storm slows anything pushing through the ice, and Purge already slows Urgot himself while he attacks. Rebirth then takes away the reward: Anivia turns back into an egg and comes back at full health, which wastes the execute threshold on Fear Beyond Death. Her damage is magic, so Urgot’s 121 Armor at level 18 does almost nothing against her, and his 32 base Magic Resist does the real work. That makes a case for taking magic resistance early instead of the usual armor build.

Urgot has 655 health, 36 Armor, and Echoing Flames, which procs from his basic attacks and Purge. He is also slightly faster, with 330 base movement speed to Anivia’s 325, which is enough to punish a badly placed Flash Frost, since its sphere chills everything it crosses. Both champions rate 8 and 10 on the execution difficulty scale, and both rely on Mana. Full kits: Urgot and Anivia.