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.
You do not need to cast Awakening to regain the ability to cast Last Rites.
You can send the Maiden down a lane alone, be careful though, as she represents a large portion of your combat power.
The Maiden will attempt to assist you in a fight, so choose your targets well.
The Annie Yorick synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Yorick, 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 Yorick. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Yorick helps Annie perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Annie tries to synergize with Yorick, she sees a barely noticable drop in her total damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Yorick doesn't help cover for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Annie is played together with Yorick on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Yorick. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Yorick.
Moreover, when Annie plays with Yorick on the same side, she typically receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Yorick does a decent job of protecting Annie during team fights.
There is no one best synergy for Annie that will no matter what be her #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Yorick is a pretty good ally for Annie. By locking into the same team as Annie, he improves their win rate by 1.6% to 50.9%. This demonstrates that there is a somewhat important synergy between Annie and Yorick that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Yorick has a lower difficulty than Annie. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Yorick teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to do well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by aligning Annie and Yorick together, you probably will not be giving your team a great deal of attack damage. We recommend you include other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Yorick ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Annie to work well with Yorick during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to include in your Annie and Yorick synergy build include Malignance, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Annie included at least these three finished items in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Yorick than with most other typical builds. In fact, Annie boasted an average winrate of 50.9% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Yorick 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, Absolute Focus, and Manaflow Band runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Yorick with Annie are presented for all skill levels combined. To filter the stats and builds to a specific player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier on the page.