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.
Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.
Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.
Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.
The Annie Taliyah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Taliyah, 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 Taliyah. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Taliyah helps Annie perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Annie is an ally to Taliyah, she sees a noticable drop in her full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Taliyah doesn't help protection for her to deal more damage or that her presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Annie is played with Taliyah on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Taliyah. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Taliyah.
Additionally, when Annie plays with Taliyah on the same team, she on average takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Taliyah does a poor job of covering Annie during team fights.
There is no perfect synergy for Annie that will 100% of the time be her #1 teammate. However, overall, Taliyah is a terrible teammate for Annie. By locking into the same team as Annie, she decreases their win rate by -4.7% to 44.6%. This signals that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Annie and Taliyah that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Taliyah has a lower difficulty than Annie. That means Annie players don't need to be very careful when lining up Taliyah allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to do well with you.
Working on the same side, Annie players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by grouping Annie and Taliyah together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates much attack damage. Plan to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Taliyah teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
To truly master Annie in order to pair well with Taliyah during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Annie and Taliyah synergy build include Malignance, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Annie included at least these three finished items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Taliyah than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Annie boasted an average win rate of 44.6% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Taliyah with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Annie players should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Manaflow Band runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 44.6% win rate overall.
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