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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 Naafiri Annie synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Annie, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Naafiri sees a very large drop in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Annie. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Annie helps Naafiri perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Naafiri is paired with Annie, they gets a small decrease in their total damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Annie doesn't help cover for them to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Naafiri is played together with Annie on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing with Annie.
Moreover, when Naafiri plays with Annie on the same team, they often receives a little more damage than when they fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Annie does a poor job of protecting Naafiri in teamfights.
There is no ideal companion for Naafiri that will 100% of the time be their #1 ally. Yet, Annie is a terrible companion for Naafiri. By being on the same side as Naafiri, she lowers their win rate by -3.7% to 46.5%. This signals that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Naafiri and Annie that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Annie has a much greater difficulty compared to Naafiri. That means you must be very careful when lining up Annie comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing together, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by pairing Naafiri and Annie together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates a great deal of cover. Plan to include other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Annie ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
To truly master Naafiri to work well with Annie during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to use in your Naafiri and Annie synergy build include Serylda's Grudge, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Naafiri incorporated at least these three items in their build, they performed much better as an ally of Annie than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Naafiri had an average winrate of 46.5% helping carry Annie with these items in their kit.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Annie with Naafiri are presented for all skill levels combined. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a specific rank, you should use the selection menu located earlier on the page.