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.
The Annie Nilah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nilah, 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 Nilah. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Nilah helps Annie perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Annie tries to synergize with Nilah, she observes a marginal improvement in her complete damage output. This change may signal that Nilah provides protection for her to dish out more damage or that their allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Annie is played alongside Nilah 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 with Nilah.
Additionally, when Annie plays with Nilah on the same team, she often receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Nilah does a decent job of covering Annie in teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Annie that will 100% of the time be her top ally. However, Nilah is a decent teammate for Annie. By being on the same side as Annie, they increases their win rate by 2.9% to 52.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a potentially meaningful strategic relationship between Annie and Nilah that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Nilah has a much greater difficulty compared to Annie. That means you need to be careful when finding Nilah teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting together, Annie players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Annie and Nilah together, you will not be granting your other teammates enough protection for burst damage. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Nilah ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
To truly master Annie to work well with Nilah during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to prioritize in your Annie and Nilah synergy build include Malignance, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Annie used at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Nilah than with most other common builds. In fact, Annie had an average win rate of 52.2% when playing alongside Nilah with these items in her kit.
To have the highest 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. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Annie and Nilah pairings, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.2% winrate overall.
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