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.
Be a bird!
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
The Annie Azir synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Azir, 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 Azir. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Azir helps Annie perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Annie is paired with Azir, she gets a pretty big loss in her total damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Azir does not provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Annie is played together with Azir on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Azir.
Additionally, when Annie plays with Azir on the same side, she on average receives less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Azir does a decent job of covering Annie in teamfights.
There is no perfect champion pairing for Annie that will no matter what be her best ally. However, Azir is a not very good teammate for Annie. By being on the same team as Annie, he decreases their win rate by -3.0% to 46.3%. This signals that there is a harmful bond between Annie and Azir that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Azir has a greater difficulty than Annie. That means Annie players should be very careful when arranging Azir teammates to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting together, Annie players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by pairing Annie and Azir together, you probably will not be providing your other allies enough tankyness. We recommend you include other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Azir teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Annie to work well with Azir during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Annie and Azir synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Annie combined at least these three great items in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Azir than with many other common builds. In fact, Annie had an average win rate of 46.3% helping carry Azir with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Annie players should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Manaflow Band runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Azir with Annie are presented for every ranked division. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a particular rank, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.