Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
Annie's summoned bear, Tibbers, burns opposing units around himself. Try to keep your distance from him after he's been summoned.
Keep an eye out for a white, swirling power around Annie. It means she's ready to unleash her stun.
Summoner Smite can be used to help take down Tibbers.
The stat comparisons shown here show several important Ahri vs. Annie matchup stats that can help us grasp the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Annie’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Annie..
Ahri usually has a similar longest killing spree as her opponent does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Annie. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Ahri usually loses when trying to fight Annie, with a 46.2% win rate. Therefore, Ahri makes a poor counter for Annie.
While Ahri does have a lower win rate compared to Annie, when they face off with one another, Ahri also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging champ to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Ahri into Annie.
Furthermore, Ahri also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Annie. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Annie matchups, Annie is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Ahri is a garbage counter for Annie. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Ahri against Annie.
If you would like to truly master Ahri to counter Annie during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Annie. Champs who typically don't take much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to have in your Ahri versus Annie build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Ahri bought at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when fighting Annie than with most other common item sets. In fact, Ahri had an average win rate of 46.2% when playing against Annie with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Annie as Ahri, Ahri players should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Ahri vs Annie counter picks, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.2% win rate overall.
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