A question for High Elo players

Jinzo Torrance··1 votes·360 views

What is Annie counterplay? How can I stop her from using item 3152 and/or summoner 4 and deleting my team and/or my ass? How do I lane against her if I'm melee?

Thanks in advance

P.S.: Please don't say "Call for ganks" that's not counterplay, that's a bullshit gimmick for beating a champion that works against everyone for that matter.

7 Comments

Revali2 votes

if you're AD, try rushing items like item 3156 item 3071 the effective MR and the hp from cleaver while still granting Decent ad to keep up with her is nice, while giving good chunk of cdr and keeps you on pace with her RoA buildpath if she chooses to go that route, making you just as tanky as her.

If you're ap and melee, i'd recommend the same way except it should look more something like this depending on the champ item 3027 item 3001 etc

As for your team, she's a reliable burst mage with the problem of range which the two afformentioned in your post help her fix, if your team doesn't wanna build any form of hp or magic resist, if you're a tank toplaner/jungler, try getting something like item 3190 and help mitigate some of her damage

edit: feel free to correct me on something if i'm wrong.

Jinzo Torrance2 votes

So she ha no "counterplay"" but can only be counterbuilt by building Banshee, Locket, Maw if AD, Abyssal if AP? That's it? So you just bend everytime she has Flash or sometimes Protobelt if it's enough range?

Doe Riot think this is fun for anyone? 100-0 burst with a stun whose only "counterplay" is it's average range, which they gave her methods to fix?

Revali1 votes

Banshees is the best to build against her as you can completely block her stun with it, sorry I forgot to mention that.

those items are usually more than enough to keep you alive through her whole combo until she gets pen later on

and no, its mostly just keeping your distance with burst mages and going in when its apt to, ie after annie uses her stun to push a wave. etc, with them

now if this is the later part in the game, counterbuilding is more important than counterplay those items will keep most alive in the case she manages to reach them through a frontline.

just how I see burst mages.

Jinzo Torrance2 votes

Nevermind the counterbuild which almost every champion has (Maw, Banshee vs AP, BC against tanks, Warmogs+Thorn vs some ADC etc.), "Stay out of her range" is enough for Riot standards of counterplay?

Dreadlocks1 votes

Pretty much, it's like that for most champs anyways.

Dreadlocks1 votes

out range her. if ur melee ur probably going to have a hard time.. so I'd recommend rushing mercs and perhaps another mr item like hex drinker or abysal, as far as flash, ur best bet is to time it so u know when it's up.

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