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 Rell 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, Rell sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Annie. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Annie helps Rell perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Rell is paired with Annie, she sees a small increase in her total damage output. This may indicate that Annie provides protection for her to deal more damage or that her support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Rell is played with Annie on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Annie. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Annie.
Moreover, when Rell 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 covering Rell during teamfights.
There is no one best synergy for Rell that will no matter what be her ideal ally. Yet, overall, Annie is a very typical teammate for Rell. By playing on the same team as Rell, she raises their win rate by 0.3% to 49.6%. This shows that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Rell and Annie that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Annie has a much greater difficulty compared to Rell. That means Rell players need to be very careful when enlisting Annie allies to play with, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working cooperatively, Rell players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide a lot of utility for your team. When paired, these champions may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Conversely, by grouping Rell and Annie together, you will not be granting your side a lot of attack damage. Plan to pick other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Annie teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Rell in order to synergize with Annie during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for 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 use in your Rell and Annie synergy build include Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Celestial Opposition. When Rell used at least these three items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Annie than with many other typical builds. In fact, Rell boasted an average winrate of 49.6% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Annie with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, Rell players should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Rell and Annie pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Annie with Rell are displayed for all ranked divisions. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.