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.
Jax benefits greatly from items that have both Ability Power and Attack Damage such as Guinsoo's Rageblade and Hextech Gunblade.
Jax can Leap Strike to friendly units, including wards. You can use them to plan your escape.
The Annie Jax synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Jax, 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 Jax. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Jax helps Annie perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Annie is paired with Jax, she gets a small decrease in her complete damage output. This could indicate that Jax doesn't help protection for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Annie is played together with Jax 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 alongside Jax.
Moreover, when Annie plays with Jax on the same side, she often receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Jax does a decent job of covering Annie in teamfights.
There is no ideal companion for Annie that will no matter what be her ideal ally. Yet, overall, Jax is a very typical teammate for Annie. By being on the same team as Annie, he improves their win rate by 0.7% to 50.0%. This signals that there is not really a strong synergy between Annie and Jax that results in them performing better together than alone.
Jax has a lower difficulty than Annie. That means Annie players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Jax comrades to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Annie players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Annie and Jax together, you will not be granting your other teammates enough engage. Plan to bring other champs on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Jax ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Annie to work well with Jax during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to focus on in your Annie and Jax synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Stormsurge. When Annie included at least these three finished items in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Jax than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Annie had an average win rate of 50.0% helping carry Jax with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, Annie players should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Absolute Focus runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.0% winrate overall.
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