Annie with Leona
How to Synergize Annie and Leona
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Annie Leona Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Annie and Leona
Tips for Playing as Annie with Leona
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.
Advice to Understand How Leona Will Play
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Annie Leona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Leona as Annie in LoL
The Annie Leona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Leona, 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 Leona. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Leona helps Annie perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Annie is an ally to Leona, she gets a small increase in her total damage output. This difference may indicate that Leona helps provide cover for her to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Annie is played alongside Leona 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 Leona.
Moreover, when Annie plays with Leona on the same team, she usually receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Leona does a decent job of protecting Annie during teamfights.
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Is Annie better when played alongside Leona?
There is no one best synergy for Annie that will 100% of the time be her ideal teammate. However, Leona is a top-tier companion for Annie. By playing on the same side as Annie, she improves their win rate by 3.2% to 52.5%. This shows that there is a very real bond between Annie and Leona that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Leona has a lower difficulty than Annie. That means Annie players don't need to be cautious when finding Leona comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to play well with you.
Working alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide utility and CC for your side. Combined, these two will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Conversely, by aligning Annie and Leona together, you may not be granting your side a lot of sustained damage output. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Leona ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Annie to pair well with Leona during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to prioritize in your Annie and Leona synergy build consist of Malignance, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Annie combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when fighting alongside Leona than with many other typical builds. In fact, Annie boasted an average winrate of 52.5% when playing alongside Leona with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating 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. Out of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.5% winrate overall.
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