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 Rupture on creeps in combination with Carnivore is a good way to gain Health and Mana.
If you're having difficulty feasting upon champions, try eating minions until you're larger.
Try to line up your attacks with Vorpal Spikes so that they kill minions and harass enemy champions at the same time.
The Annie Cho'Gath synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Cho'Gath, 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 Cho'Gath. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Cho'Gath helps Annie perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Annie is paired with Cho'Gath, she gets a little drop in her full damage output. This difference may signal that Cho'Gath does not help cover for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Annie is played alongside Cho'Gath on the same side, 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 Cho'Gath.
Additionally, when Annie plays with Cho'Gath on the same side, she often receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Cho'Gath does a poor job of protecting Annie during teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best ally for Annie that will no matter what be her ideal synergy. However, Cho'Gath is a terrible ally for Annie. By being on the same side as Annie, he drops their win rate by -4.1% to 45.2%. This demonstrates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Annie and Cho'Gath that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Cho'Gath has a lower difficulty than Annie. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Cho'Gath comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to do well with you.
When playing together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by grouping Annie and Cho'Gath together, you will not be providing your team very much sustained damage output. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that offsets this hole in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Cho'Gath ally, 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 truly master Annie in order to pair well with Cho'Gath during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to build first in your Annie and Cho'Gath synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Annie included at least these three finished items in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Cho'Gath than with most other common builds. In fact, Annie had an average winrate of 45.2% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Cho'Gath with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, you should use 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 runes we have analyed for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 45.2% win rate overall.
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