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.
Mortal Will activates after 5 spells or basic attacks - plan your way through fights to allow you to activate it more than once.
Whittle the enemy down with Comet Spears before you jump in.
If an enemy is going to get out of range of your Aegis Assault, you can recast the spell to immediately fire the shield slam.
The Annie Pantheon synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Pantheon, 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 Pantheon. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Pantheon helps Annie perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Annie is paired with Pantheon, she observes a marginal improvement in her complete damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Pantheon helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Annie is played together with Pantheon on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Pantheon.
Additionally, when Annie plays with Pantheon on the same team, she usually takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Pantheon does a poor job of covering Annie in team fights.
There is no top ally for Annie that will 100% of the time be her #1 synergy. However, Pantheon is a very typical teammate for Annie. By being on the same team as Annie, he lowers their win rate by -0.4% to 48.9%. This proves that there is not really a strong bond between Annie and Pantheon that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Pantheon has a lower difficulty than Annie. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Pantheon teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Annie players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Annie and Pantheon together, you may not be giving your other allies a lot of engage potential. Plan to bring other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Pantheon ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Annie in order to work well with Pantheon during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to include in your Annie and Pantheon synergy build consist of Malignance, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Annie incorporated at least these three great items in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Pantheon than with most other common item sets. In fact, Annie had an average winrate of 48.9% when playing alongside Pantheon with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, Annie players should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Absolute Focus runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Annie and Pantheon pairings, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Pantheon with Annie are given for all skill levels, merged. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a particular player tier, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.