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Recommended Items
Runes: Main Build, I use this in 100% of games
+8 Ability Haste
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+65 Base Health
Spells:
Flash
Ghost
Items
Ability Order Skill order
Pyromania (PASSIVE)
Annie Passive Ability
Threats & Synergies
Kassadin
Out scales heavily and has inbuilt resistance, very difficult matchup for annie if not punsihed early
Jarvan IV
Great synergy as you get to pick your fights and set up picks and AOE together. Shared Goal
Jarvan IV
Great synergy as you get to pick your fights and set up picks and AOE together. Shared Goal
Champion Build Guide

Hi everyone, I am Hoity Toity, I hope you enjoy my guide which helped me achieve challenger in season 10 and 11 playing Annie and also achieving rank 1 annie world multiple times.
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![]() Role: ![]() However, she excels in proactive play, finding opportunities and making plays through her instant AOE and burst damage. |
Following the huge durability changes, pure burst builds have become more unreliable due to MR scaling on all champs. This means breakpoints will be harder to reach and you will have to snowball harder than previously. This gameplay style has thus become inconsistent.
The changes to Durability open the path for this Annie playstyle which is more consistent and opens up other options for Annie such as split pushing and playing more riskier due to being extremely tanky.
It is a shift but Annie is in a good spot
Movement:



Scaling:
Very weak in early game due to

As long as you can 1 shot a squishy, you have value. If you aren't able to you can either set up plays for your team or peel as a

Power journey:



At level 4 (i.e 2 levels in


Level 6 onward you have huge kill potential and pressure with

From this point onward you will have kill and pick potential as long as you play around your


Types of fighting:
With

With


With


The decision of what mythic and playstyle to adopt will be dependent on your own team comp and the enemies team comp

Due to this type of kit, learning

However, although she has a low barrier of entry she also has a high skill ceiling due to the use and micro of










Why not ludens?
This is a very common question I get,

In my opinion




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Pre 10 minutes focus on farm, having good wave and looking for early skirmishes with your jungle (your

Manage your threat by holding onto your


Your goal is to get out of early laning without forfeiting too many



If you are able to, you can pressure your mid laner using your all ins or

If you have pressured them out of lane, or even if you haven't but have a good wave state, you can look for roam angles to gank for your laners (





Look for flanks outside of


Do not play

Example:
Finding an angle for multi man stuns


This will separate good


An understanding of

- Use of
Summon: Tibbers as a
ward
- Blocking
skillshots
- Using leash range to teleport
Summon: Tibbers back to you
-
Tanking tower shots
- Leashing
minions for better wave states
- Many more
Example:
Using tibbers to block nunu snowball
11.17 - Wits end nerfs is a slight indirect buff to Annie when vsing champions like Irelia
11.18 - Nothing Special
11.19 - Buffs to Akali makes pushing her out of lane harder, Buffs to Galio won't affect laning vs him but mid/late game will be harder. Ryze nerfs improves this matchup
11.20 - Imperial mandate changes makes synergy with mandate nami a lot better.
11.21 - Ingenius hunter buff makes predator/hextech/everfrost annie builds more viable. Health rune buff
11.22 - No direct changes that will affect Annie
Durability Patch + - Multiple changes, complete revision of build. Achieved masters with high winrate to ensure consistent build.
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