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.
Olaf can combine Berserker Rage, Vicious Strikes, and Ragnarok at low life to become deceptively strong.
The bonus healing granted by Vicious Strikes amplifies your Life Steal from all sources as well as heals from allies.
The Annie Olaf synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Olaf, 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 Olaf. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Olaf helps Annie perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Annie plays on the same team as Olaf, she observes a marginal improvement in her full damage output. This difference may signal that Olaf provides protection for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Annie is played with Olaf on the same team, 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 Olaf.
Additionally, when Annie plays with Olaf on the same side, she typically takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Olaf does a poor job of protecting Annie during teamfights.
There is no ideal companion for Annie that will always be her best teammate. However, overall, Olaf is a very typical teammate for Annie. By being on the same side as Annie, he improves their win rate by 0.3% to 49.6%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak bond between Annie and Olaf that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Olaf has a much lower diffuclty than Annie. That means Annie players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Olaf comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Annie and Olaf together, you will not be providing your other teammates very much protection for burst damage. Plan to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Olaf ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Annie to work well with Olaf during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to get in your Annie and Olaf synergy build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Annie incorporated at least these three great items in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Olaf than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Annie had an average win rate of 49.6% when playing alongside Olaf with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you 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 this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.6% win rate overall.
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