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.
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.
The Annie Aatrox synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aatrox, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Annie sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aatrox. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Aatrox helps Annie perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Annie is an ally to Aatrox, she sees a barely noticable drop in her complete damage dealt. This could signal that Aatrox does not help protection for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Annie is played alongside Aatrox on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Aatrox.
Moreover, when Annie plays with Aatrox on the same side, she often takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Aatrox does a decent job of protecting Annie in team fights.
There is no one best synergy for Annie that will no matter what be her top ally. Yet, overall, Aatrox is a very typical ally for Annie. By locking into the same team as Annie, he improves their win rate by 0.7% to 50.0%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Annie and Aatrox that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Aatrox has a lower difficulty than Annie. That means Annie players don't need to be careful when arranging Aatrox allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing together, Annie players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by pairing Annie and Aatrox together, you may not be providing your other teammates very much protection for burst damage. Plan to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Aatrox teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Annie in order to work well with Aatrox during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to include in your Annie and Aatrox synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Annie combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Aatrox than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Annie had an average win rate of 50.0% when playing alongside Aatrox with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Annie players should take the First Strike, Triple Tonic, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Annie and Aatrox pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.0% win rate overall.
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