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 Volibear synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Volibear, 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 Volibear. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Volibear helps Annie perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Annie plays on the same team as Volibear, she sees a small decrease in her full damage output. This difference may signal that Volibear does not provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Annie is played with Volibear on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Volibear.
Additionally, when Annie plays with Volibear on the same side, she on average receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that Volibear does a poor job of covering Annie in teamfights.
There is no ideal synergy for Annie that will no matter what be her #1 teammate. Yet, Volibear is a relatively poor companion for Annie. By locking into the same team as Annie, he decreases their win rate by -3.0% to 46.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful bond between Annie and Volibear that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Volibear has a much lower diffuclty than Annie. That means Annie players don't need to be cautious when finding Volibear teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Annie and Volibear together, you will not be granting your other allies very much AD. Plan to include other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Volibear ally's skill level, you should 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 in order to pair well with Volibear during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to use in your Annie and Volibear synergy build include Malignance, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Annie combined at least these three great items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Volibear than with many other common builds. In fact, Annie had an average win rate of 46.3% when playing alongside Volibear with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating 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. Out of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Volibear with Annie are shown for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular division, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.