Hawkshot reveals units in brush. If a team fight is occuring in the jungle it can give you a significant advantage.
Volley arrows are blocked by the first enemy they hit, so keep your distance to avoid having them all absorbed by enemy frontliners.
Try to fire Enchanted Crystal Arrow in the same direction enemies are moving, so it is more likely to hit.
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 stats shown here clarify some critical Ashe versus Annie counter statistics that may help us figure out the distinctions between the two. For instance, Ashe’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Annie’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Ashe may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Annie..
Ashe normally has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Annie. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Ashe usually fairs equally well when facing off against Annie, with a 50.0% win rate. Therefore, Ashe makes an ok counter for Annie.
While Ashe does have a higher winrate than Annie, when they face off with one another, Ashe also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Ashe into Annie.
Furthermore, Ashe also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Annie. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Ashe vs Annie matchups, Annie is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Ashe is a decent counter for Annie. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Ashe against Annie.
To truly master Ashe to counter Annie during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ashe most often accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Annie. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Ashe versus Annie build include Trinity Force, Wit's End, and Kraken Slayer. When Ashe used at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when fighting Annie than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Ashe boasted an average win rate of 50.0% when countering Annie with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Annie as Ashe, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Ashe vs Annie counters, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.0% win rate overall.
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