Picked the bit I disagreed with. Both heroes are great tl;dr would be Aniva has more potential damage but it's inconsistent in any hands and relies much more on items and team support than Annie. Both have roughly equally valuable yet entirely different CC IMO.

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And Riot even buffed her mspeed. It used to be a flat 300, or 295. Something really terribad like that.

Oh you~
lemme guess you take sorc shoes or merc
treads on anivia? Lolololololololo

Well I may have exaggerated a bit but anivia's skillshot is rediculously easy to hit with, especially because you can't
telegraph when she's gonna do it like a previous poster mentioned. I can't deny that Annie has a better early game, though.

Golem might be a luxury, but that doesn't mean being able to easily get it at level 6-7 isn't a very nice advantage.

Plus have fun with boots of swiftness in every game. I'd rather sacrifice 100 HP with MS quints than sacrifice the CC reduction of merc treads

Anivia's range is huge. You should never be in a place where an enemy champion can easily CC you and drop you down to 0.

It's a good point though. I have +15 AP from AP quints, so I won't give that up for MS quints, but if you were going HP quints it could be useful to swap them and buy sorc/merc boots in-game.

Anyone who says it's easy to land Anivia's Q is either lying or playing extremely terrible people. It one of the slowest projectiles (if not slowest) and the easiest projectile by far to dodge. If you walk in any weaving pattern like you should vs any skill shotter... you will almost never be hit by Anivia unless they have someone to slow/stun you beforehand.

As anivia you're so squishy that if you get cced in the first place you're dead anyways and merc tread's WON't save you because once you're out of the cc you'll be so slow that they can casually walk up besides you and kick your face in while remarking about the wonderful weather in valoran.

Even with hp quints and seals anivia has around 1.6k hp at lv 18. If you play smart, and wait for the enemy's cc to be blown, you can get in, explode someone, and get out before they have time to retaliate If and only if you ahve move 3 or 5 boots.

Games are won during the mid-game, and Annie is a lot stronger mid-game where she can omgwtfbbq insta-kill (often more than one person during early teamfights at buffs/dragon)

Anivia has more utility, sure, but if you can get yourself and your physical carry fed and win the mid-game teamfights, the game's pretty much in the bag for you.

Anivia is so fun. Difficulty=Fun.
Annie is just boring. Facerolling keyboard with slow moving skills is really boring. Ryze is face roll too, but his projectiles move so fast, and get epic sound effects.