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.
Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
The Annie Yasuo synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Yasuo, 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 Yasuo. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Yasuo helps Annie perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Annie is paired with Yasuo, she sees a little drop in her complete damage output. This could signal that Yasuo does not provide cover for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Annie is played with Yasuo 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 Yasuo.
Additionally, when Annie plays with Yasuo on the same side, she often receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Yasuo does a decent job of protecting Annie in team fights.
There is no one best champion pairing for Annie that will no matter what be her #1 teammate. Yet, Yasuo is a decent ally for Annie. By locking into the same team as Annie, he raises their win rate by 2.6% to 51.9%. This signals that there is pretty good strategic relationship between Annie and Yasuo that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Yasuo has a much greater difficulty compared to Annie. That means Annie players must be careful when enlisting Yasuo teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to fight well with you.
Working on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by pairing Annie and Yasuo together, you may not be providing your side very much tankyness. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Yasuo ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Annie in order to work well with Yasuo during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to have in your Annie and Yasuo synergy build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Annie incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when fighting alongside Yasuo than with many other common item sets. In fact, Annie boasted an average win rate of 51.9% helping carry Yasuo with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Annie players should use 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 this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.9% win rate overall.
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