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 Samira 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, Samira sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Annie. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Annie helps Samira perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Samira is paired with Annie, she gets a small increase in her complete damage dealt. This change could signal that Annie supports by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Samira 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 synergisticly with Annie.
Additionally, when Samira plays with Annie on the same team, she usually receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Annie does a decent job of covering Samira during teamfights.
There is no ideal ally for Samira that will always be her #1 synergy. However, overall, Annie is a very typical teammate for Samira. By being on the same team as Samira, she increases their win rate by 0.3% to 49.0%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small strategic relationship between Samira and Annie that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Annie has a lower difficulty than Samira. That means Samira players don't need to be cautious when lining up Annie teammates to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by grouping Samira and Annie together, you probably will not be giving your side much engage. Plan to include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Annie ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
To truly master Samira in order to pair well with Annie during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to build first in your Samira and Annie synergy build include Guardian Angel, Bloodthirster, and The Collector. When Samira used at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Annie than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Samira boasted an average winrate of 49.0% helping carry Annie with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.0% winrate overall.
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