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.
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
The Annie Thresh synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Thresh, 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 Thresh. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Thresh helps Annie perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Annie is paired with Thresh, she observes a marginal improvement in her complete damage output. This difference could signal that Thresh provides cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Annie is played alongside Thresh 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 alongside Thresh.
Moreover, when Annie plays with Thresh on the same team, she typically receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Thresh does a decent job of protecting Annie during team fights.
There is no perfect synergy for Annie that will 100% of the time be her #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Thresh is a very typical teammate for Annie. By playing on the same team as Annie, he decreases their win rate by -0.5% to 48.8%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak synergy between Annie and Thresh that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Thresh has a greater difficulty than Annie. That means you must be cautious when enlisting Thresh comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Playing together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by grouping Annie and Thresh together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates very much sustained damage output. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Thresh ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Annie to pair well with Thresh during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to focus on in your Annie and Thresh synergy build consist of Void Staff, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Annie included at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Thresh than with many other common item sets. In fact, Annie boasted an average winrate of 48.8% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Thresh with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against 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 that we analyzed for Annie and Thresh pairings, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.8% win rate overall.
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