Urgot vs Anivia Counter Pick

Anivia opens 250 units further out than Urgot — 600 against 350 — and that single number explains most of a 45.8% win rate for Urgot over 118 games on patch 16.13.1. She is also the frailest imaginable target once reached, at 550 health and 19 Armor to begin with, growing only to 2,114 and 88.7. The difficulty is arriving.

Two abilities handle that. Crystallize raises an impassable wall of ice, which turns Disdain from a shielded charge into spent Mana, and Glacial Storm slows anything advancing through it while Purge already slows Urgot himself as he unloads. Rebirth then removes the payoff: Anivia reverts to an egg and returns at full health, so the health-threshold execute on Fear Beyond Death can be spent for nothing. Her damage is magic, meaning Urgot’s 121 Armor at level 18 contributes nothing here and his 32 base Magic Resist carries the load instead — an argument for early magic resistance rather than the usual armor path.

Urgot keeps 655 health, 36 Armor and Echoing Flames triggering off his basic attacks and Purge, and he is marginally quicker at 330 base movement speed against 325 — enough to punish a misplaced Flash Frost, whose sphere chills everything along its path. Both sit near the ceiling of execution difficulty at 8 and 10, and both spend Mana. Full kits: Urgot and Anivia.