Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
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 Poppy 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, Poppy sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Annie. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Annie helps Poppy perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Poppy plays on the same team as Annie, she gets a marginal improvement in her full damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Annie provides cover for her to dish out more damage or that her support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Poppy is played alongside Annie on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Annie.
Moreover, when Poppy plays with Annie on the same team, she typically takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Annie does a poor job of covering Poppy in teamfights.
There is no top champion pairing for Poppy that will always be her ideal ally. However, Annie is a not very good teammate for Poppy. By playing on the same side as Poppy, she lowers their win rate by -2.3% to 47.4%. This signals that there is a harmful bond between Poppy and Annie that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Annie has a lower difficulty than Poppy. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Annie teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working alongside, Poppy players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to support your allies. Combined, these champions may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Poppy and Annie together, you probably will not be providing your team a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to pick other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Annie ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Poppy in order to synergize with Annie during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to get in your Poppy and Annie synergy build consist of Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Poppy used at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better as an ally of Annie than with many other common builds. In fact, Poppy had an average winrate of 47.4% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Annie with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Bone Plating, Revitalize, Biscuit Delivery, and Time Warp Tonic runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Annie with Poppy are shown for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.