Alistar with Annie
How to Synergize Alistar and Annie
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Alistar Annie Synergy Summary
Best Alistar vs Annie Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Annie
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Annie
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Advice to Understand How Annie Will Play
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.
Alistar Annie Synergy Stats
How to Play with Annie as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar 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, Alistar 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 decrease shows that Annie helps Alistar perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Alistar plays on the same team as Annie, he gets a small decrease in his total damage output. This may demonstrate that Annie does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played with Annie on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Annie.
Additionally, when Alistar plays with Annie on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Annie does a decent job of covering Alistar in team fights.
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Annie?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Alistar that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. However, overall, Annie is a very typical ally for Alistar. By playing on the same team as Alistar, she drops their win rate by -0.4% to 49.0%. This signals that there is a weak bond between Alistar and Annie that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Annie has a lower difficulty than Alistar. That means Alistar players don't need to be cautious when finding Annie teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by grouping Alistar and Annie together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Annie ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Alistar to pair well with Annie during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Alistar and Annie synergy build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Alistar included at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Annie than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Alistar boasted an average winrate of 49.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Annie with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, Alistar players should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.0% win rate overall.
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