Ziggs vs Anivia Counter Pick

Anivia holds the top spot on the ten-point complexity scale, and the players who pick her tend to be experienced specialists rather than casual players. That shows in the results: Ziggs loses the matchup, winning only 43.7% of 126 games on patch 16.13.1. The sample is small, so treat this as a clear tendency rather than a fixed verdict, though the Hard difficulty rating points the same way.

Two mechanics create the gap. Rebirth brings Anivia back as an egg with full health after a killing blow, so the combo Ziggs relies on, a Short Fuse auto attack followed by Bouncing Bomb and a Mega Inferno Bomb finish, often fails to secure a kill even though she starts with far less health, 550 against his 606, and ends at 2,114 by level 18 versus his 2,408. The second factor is range. She attacks from 600 while he reaches only 550, and Crystallize reshapes the terrain, taking away the escape route he counts on after Satchel Charge. Both of them deal magic damage and share a base 30 magic resistance, so extra defensive items offset each other, and Glacial Storm punishes the standing still that Anivia forces him into when he casts. Both champions spend mana, and her 51 base attack damage compared with his 55 explains why she seldom trades auto attacks for the wave, preferring to farm with Flash Frost and Frostbite. His better option is to press the wave and take turret plates, not to start a duel he has little chance of finishing.