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.
If you're in a lane against ranged players, leveling up Meditate can allow you to stay in the lane longer and gain levels faster than they will.
Try using Alpha Strike on a minion in front of an enemy champion so you are placed at a safe distance at the end of the spell.
Wuju Style is very strong early for last hitting minions.
The Annie Master Yi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Master Yi, 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 Master Yi. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Master Yi helps Annie perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Annie is paired with Master Yi, she gets a little drop in her complete damage output. This change may signal that Master Yi does not provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Annie is played with Master Yi on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Master Yi.
Additionally, when Annie plays with Master Yi on the same team, she usually takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Master Yi does a decent job of protecting Annie during team fights.
There is no ideal synergy for Annie that will no matter what be her top synergy. Yet, overall, Master Yi is a good ally for Annie. By being on the same team as Annie, he improves their win rate by 1.0% to 50.3%. This clearly indicates that there is pretty good strategic relationship between Annie and Master Yi that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Master Yi has a lower difficulty than Annie. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Master Yi teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Annie players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by bringing Annie and Master Yi together, you may not be giving your other teammates very much engage potential. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Master Yi ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Annie to work well with Master Yi during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to include in your Annie and Master Yi synergy build include Malignance, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Annie incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Master Yi than with many other common item sets. In fact, Annie had an average win rate of 50.3% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Master Yi with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, Annie players should take 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 runes players picked for Annie and Master Yi pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Master Yi with Annie are given for all ranked divisions combined. To narrow the stats and builds to an individual division, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.