Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
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.
The Aatrox Annie synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Annie, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Aatrox sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Annie. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Annie helps Aatrox perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Aatrox plays on the same team as Annie, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This could signal that Annie supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Aatrox is played alongside Annie on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Annie.
Moreover, when Aatrox plays with Annie on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Annie does a poor job of protecting Aatrox during team fights.
There is no universally accepted best ally for Aatrox that will always be his best ally. However, Annie is a very typical companion for Aatrox. By locking into the same team as Aatrox, she drops their win rate by -0.4% to 50.0%. This signals that there is not really a strong bond between Aatrox and Annie that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Annie has a greater difficulty than Aatrox. That means you should be careful when lining up Annie teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, Aatrox players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Aatrox and Annie together, you will not be granting your other teammates a lot of protection for burst damage. Plan to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Annie ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Aatrox in order to pair well with Annie during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to include in your Aatrox and Annie synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Spear of Shojin. When Aatrox incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Annie than with most other typical builds. In fact, Aatrox had an average win rate of 50.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Annie with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, Aatrox players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.0% win rate overall.
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