Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
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 on this page feature several influential Kindred versus Annie matchup statistics that may help you realize the differences and similarities between these two champs. Kindred’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Annie’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Kindred may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Annie..
Kindred usually has a similar longest kill spree as their foe does. Commonly, they receives more damage than Annie. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kindred usually loses when facing off against Annie, with a 45.4% win rate. Therefore, Kindred makes a poor counter to Annie.
While Kindred does have a much lower winrate compared to Annie, when they face off with one another, Kindred also has a lower difficulty level that makes them a less difficult champion to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Kindred into Annie.
Moreover, Kindred has only a small 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 lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kindred 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 teammates during late stage team fights.
Kindred is a terribly counter to Annie. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Kindred against Annie.
To truly master Kindred in order to counter Annie during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kindred typically gets a lot less CS as Annie. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They 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, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Kindred versus Annie build include Trinity Force, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Kindred combined at least these three items in their build, they did significantly better countering Annie than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Kindred had an average winrate of 45.4% when playing against Annie with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of beating Annie as Kindred, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Kindred vs Annie battles, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 45.4% winrate overall.
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