Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
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 Lissandra Annie synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Annie, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Lissandra sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Annie. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Annie helps Lissandra perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Lissandra is an ally to Annie, she observes a moderate decrease in her full damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Annie does not support by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Lissandra is played alongside Annie on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Annie.
Additionally, when Lissandra plays with Annie on the same side, she usually receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Annie does a decent job of protecting Lissandra during teamfights.
There is no ideal companion for Lissandra that will always be her ideal ally. Yet, overall, Annie is a very bad teammate for Lissandra. By locking into the same team as Lissandra, she lowers their win rate by -5.7% to 43.8%. This demonstrates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Lissandra and Annie that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Annie has a lower difficulty than Lissandra. That means Lissandra players don't need to be careful when finding Annie teammates to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by grouping Lissandra and Annie together, you probably will not be granting your side a great deal of AD. We recommend you include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Annie teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Lissandra in order to synergize with Annie during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Lissandra and Annie synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Lissandra combined at least these three finished items in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Annie than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Lissandra had an average winrate of 43.8% when playing alongside Annie with this build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 43.8% winrate overall.
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