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.
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
The Annie Aphelios synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aphelios, 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 Aphelios. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Aphelios helps Annie perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Annie is paired with Aphelios, she gets a small decrease in her total damage dealt. This change could indicate that Aphelios does not support by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Annie is played together with Aphelios 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 Aphelios.
Moreover, when Annie plays with Aphelios on the same team, she often takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Aphelios does a decent job of covering Annie in teamfights.
There is no perfect companion for Annie that will 100% of the time be her #1 synergy. Yet, Aphelios is a below average companion for Annie. By playing on the same team as Annie, he decreases their win rate by -1.8% to 47.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad bond between Annie and Aphelios that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Aphelios has a much greater difficulty compared to Annie. That means you need to be careful when arranging Aphelios comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much higher level of skill to do well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by pairing Annie and Aphelios together, you may not be giving your team very much engage potential. We recommend you include other champions on your team that fills this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Aphelios ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
To truly master Annie to work well with Aphelios during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Annie and Aphelios synergy build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Annie included at least these three finished items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Aphelios than with most other typical builds. In fact, Annie had an average win rate of 47.5% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Aphelios with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip 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 sets players chose for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.5% winrate overall.
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