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.
While ganking, consider aiming Dredge Line at nearby terrain and following it up with Riptide for a higher hit rate.
Riptide has a delayed blast timing on activation - you can use this while running away or when enemies are incoming to serve as a deterrent.
The Annie Nautilus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nautilus, 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 Nautilus. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Nautilus helps Annie perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Annie is paired with Nautilus, she gets a little increase in her complete damage dealt. This difference may signal that Nautilus provides cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Annie is played alongside Nautilus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Nautilus.
Moreover, when Annie plays with Nautilus on the same team, she usually receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Nautilus does a decent job of protecting Annie in team fights.
There is no top companion for Annie that will always be her #1 synergy. Yet, Nautilus is a very typical companion for Annie. By locking into the same side as Annie, he drops their win rate by -0.3% to 49.0%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between Annie and Nautilus that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Nautilus has a lower difficulty than Annie. That means Annie players don't need to be very careful when finding Nautilus comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to work well with you.
Working cooperatively, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Annie and Nautilus together, you will not be granting your other allies much anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Nautilus ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Annie to synergize with Nautilus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to get in your Annie and Nautilus synergy build include Malignance, Shadowflame, and Liandry's Torment. When Annie bought at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Nautilus than with most other typical builds. In fact, Annie boasted an average winrate of 49.0% when playing alongside Nautilus with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, Annie players should equip 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 we have analyed for Annie and Nautilus pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.0% win rate overall.
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