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.
After using the more powerful, Awakened version of an ability, Udyr cannot Awaken other abilities for some time.
Udyr has limited ranged options, try to keep distance.
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some vital Annie against Udyr counter stats that can help you explain the differences between the pair. As an example, Annie’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Udyr’s ratio of NaN, showing that Annie may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Udyr..
Annie often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her counter does. Typically, she takes less damage than Udyr. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Annie usually loses when playing against Udyr, with a 48.0% win rate. Therefore, Annie makes a bad counter to Udyr.
While Annie does have a lower winrate compared to Udyr, when they face off with one another, Annie also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming champion to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Annie into Udyr.
Additionally, Annie has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Udyr. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Annie vs Udyr matchups, Udyr is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Annie is a trash counter for Udyr. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Annie against Udyr.
To learn all of the intricacies of Annie to counter Udyr during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Annie often picks up more CS compared to Udyr. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Annie versus Udyr build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Annie incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs. Udyr than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Annie boasted an average winrate of 48.0% when countering Udyr with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating Udyr as Annie, Annie players should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Manaflow Band runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Annie vs Udyr matchups, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Udyr as Annie are shown for all skill levels, merged. If you want to filter the stats and builds to a particular rank, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.