Caitlyn vs Annie
How to Beat Annie as Caitlyn
based on 6,108 Caitlyn vs Annie matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Caitlyn vs Annie Matchup Summary
Best Caitlyn vs Annie Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Annie as Caitlyn
Tips for Playing as Caitlyn against Annie
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
Advice to Win Against Annie
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.
Caitlyn vs Annie Counter Stats
How to Counter Annie with Caitlyn in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify some influential Caitlyn against Annie counter statistics that may help you grasp the differences and similarities between this set of champions. Caitlyn’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Annie’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Caitlyn may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Annie..
Caitlyn typically has a similar longest killing spree as her opponent does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Annie. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Caitlyn and Annie
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Who is Better, Caitlyn or Annie?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Caitlyn usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Annie, with a 50.0% win rate. As a result, Caitlyn makes an ok counter to Annie.
While Caitlyn does have a higher winrate compared to Annie, when they face off with one another, Caitlyn also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more complex champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Caitlyn into Annie.
Furthermore, Caitlyn has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Annie. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Caitlyn vs Annie matchups, Annie is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Caitlyn is a decent counter for Annie. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Caitlyn against Annie.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Caitlyn in order 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Caitlyn most often accumulates a similar amount of CS as Annie. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Caitlyn versus Annie build include Infinity Edge, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Caitlyn combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better versus Annie than with many other common item sets. In fact, Caitlyn had an average winrate of 50.0% battling Annie with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Annie as Caitlyn, Caitlyn players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Caitlyn vs Annie counterpicks, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.0% winrate overall.
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