Annie tweaks

Quick Shroom·2/6/2015, 11:29:17 AM·1 votes·971 views

Ok I got dumpstered by an Annie. And I feel my issue with her is that stun.

So serious discussion here. What if her stun worked like Yasuo's knockup? I feel like having it timeout after a bit would allow a time where you could be like "ok her stun is down i can poke a bit."

Its just rough when you are behind and she is sitting on a stun for as long as she wants. It seems she is used and abused at all elo's. Would this change be ok or is it something absurd?

13 Comments

The Loli Bully2/6/2015, 11:55:34 AM1 votes

Your entire match history is Teemo and you feel your issue is Annie's stun?

Raja Chachki2/6/2015, 3:05:34 PM1 votes

Oh, what is really great is when Annie sits on 3 stacks, no one realizes she has stun, and she can just E, flash, TIBBERS :). And I disagree, her stun is her only form of CC, and without it she can never hit her W, and she'll definitely start to miss a lot of Tibbers. However, there is little counterplay to her stun, and her damage.....so Annie support is just going to be very strong.

Cornerstone12/6/2015, 4:47:11 PM1 votes

I've been playing a lot of Annie lately, and have gone up against a couple. It doesn't seem quite right to have an unlimited stun available, but really, it is no different than the numerous other stun champions that have a stun/cc on demand (Leona, Jax, Xerath, Heimer, etc, etc) The disadvantage of Annie's stun is she can't cast an ability at all, or she looses it. Other champs can cast other abilities and still keep their stun on constant demand. It only seems unfair, because her stun potential is highly visible, almost mocking you -- its saying, "I'm dangerous, stay away from me." The invisible threat of cc from other champs just don't seem as life threatening because you can't see the danger sign, but they are just as deadly as Annie's.

Bottom line, there is no problem.

Raxicor2/6/2015, 6:05:31 PM1 votes

In the meantime, it depends on who you play against her. She can be easily kited by long ranged casters, at least in laning phase, because her spells are all short-ranged besides Tibbers. I would suggest(not limited to) Azir , Orianna , or Lux .

Not sure what I think of a timer on her passive ability. Its appealing for a laning phase counter, but it would really weaken her teamfight later on. All the other team would have to do is back up to make her almost useless for initiations. Unless we buff her attacks as well as add this timer, so that she's less reliant on the stun.

Also Yasuo's abilities are resourceless so he can afford to spam abilities for his knock-up. I don't know if a similar style of fighting would be as kind to a mana reliant champion.

Quick Shroom2/7/2015, 3:51:34 AM1 votes

Well not sure why i got 3 downvotes for asking a question but whatever. Thank you everyone who actually responded to the topic in a way that creates discussion.

I may just ban Annie more often myself because she annoys me lol. But yeah she makes sense the way she is from what you guys have said.