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.
Even if you're far from a fight you can still help from afar with Mega Inferno Bomb.
Slowing your enemies with Hexplosive Minefield makes it easier to land other abilities.
Knocking yourself over walls with Satchel Charge can be great when chasing after or escaping from enemies.
The Annie Ziggs synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ziggs, 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 Ziggs. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Ziggs helps Annie perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Annie is an ally to Ziggs, she sees a noticable drop in her total damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Ziggs does not support by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Annie is played together with Ziggs on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Ziggs. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Ziggs.
Moreover, when Annie plays with Ziggs on the same team, she often takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Ziggs does a decent job of covering Annie in teamfights.
There is no ideal ally for Annie that will no matter what be her top ally. Yet, Ziggs is a very bad teammate for Annie. By playing on the same team as Annie, he drops their win rate by -4.0% to 45.3%. This signals that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Annie and Ziggs that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Ziggs has a lower difficulty than Annie. That means Annie players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Ziggs allies to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, Annie players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Annie and Ziggs together, you will not be granting your side a lot of attack damage. Make sure to have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Ziggs ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Annie in order to work well with Ziggs during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to use in your Annie and Ziggs synergy build include Malignance, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Annie incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Ziggs than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Annie had an average win rate of 45.3% when playing alongside Ziggs with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating 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 runes players chose for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 45.3% win rate overall.
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