Annie vs Malphite
How to Beat Malphite as Annie
based on 2,393 Annie vs Malphite matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Annie vs Malphite Matchup Summary
Best Annie vs Malphite Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malphite as Annie
Tips for Playing as Annie against Malphite
Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
Advice to Win Against Malphite
If you're a physical damage character stay behind your allies when fighting Malphite. Ground Slam can significantly reduce your damage output.
Malphite is one of a couple tanks who are capable of jungling. Watch out if he gets Smite.
Annie vs Malphite Counter Stats
How to Counter Malphite with Annie in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some valuable Annie against Malphite counter stats that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. For instance, Annie’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Malphite’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Annie may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Malphite..
Annie normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Malphite. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Annie and Malphite
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Who is Better, Annie or Malphite?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Annie usually loses when trying to fight Malphite, with a 47.3% win rate. Therefore, Annie makes a bad counter for Malphite.
While Annie does have a lower winrate compared to Malphite, when facing one another, Annie also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Annie into Malphite.
Additionally, Annie also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Malphite. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Annie vs Malphite matchups, Malphite is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Annie is a terribly counter for Malphite. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Annie against Malphite.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Annie to counter Malphite during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Annie usually racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Malphite. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Annie versus Malphite build include Void Staff, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Annie combined at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better vs. Malphite than with many other common item sets. In fact, Annie boasted an average winrate of 47.3% when playing against Malphite with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Malphite as Annie, Annie players should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Absolute Focus runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Annie vs Malphite face-offs, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.3% winrate overall.
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