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.
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.
The Annie Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, 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 very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Alistar. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Alistar helps Annie perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Annie plays on the same team as Alistar, she gets a little increase in her total damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Alistar helps provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Annie is played alongside Alistar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Alistar.
Additionally, when Annie plays with Alistar on the same team, she usually receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Alistar does a poor job of protecting Annie in teamfights.
There is no top synergy for Annie that will always be her ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Alistar is a very typical ally for Annie. By being on the same side as Annie, he lowers their win rate by -0.3% to 49.0%. This signals that there is only a small synergy between Annie and Alistar that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Alistar has a greater difficulty than Annie. That means you should be very careful when arranging Alistar teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working together, Annie players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by bringing Annie and Alistar together, you may not be giving your team a lot of attack damage. Plan to have other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Alistar ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
To truly master Annie to synergize with Alistar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Annie and Alistar synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Annie used at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Alistar than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Annie had an average win rate of 49.0% helping carry Alistar with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Manaflow Band runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Annie and Alistar pairings, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.0% winrate overall.
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