Sooo, why does Annie have the best Tank Steroid in the game?

Pierce The Veal·Jun 17, 2017·3 votes·383 views

There is no way a mage having a 40% damage reduction shield is balanced. As evidenced by her stats shown here: http://na.op.gg/champion/annie/statistics/mid

This is ridiculous, isn't it?

8 Comments

five oh tree Jun 17, 20173 votes

Warwick's is better. So is Ali's.

NahuiJun 17, 20172 votes

By best tank steroid I think he means the best type of steroid, being damage reduction rather than health, armor or MR boosts.

The two you named anyways were tanks, or quasi-tanks. Annie is a burst Mage. There's a problem here.

Pierce The VealJun 17, 20171 votes

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By best tank steroid I think he means the best type of steroid, being damage reduction rather than health, armor or MR boosts.

The two you named anyways were tanks, or quasi-tanks. Annie is a burst Mage. There's a problem here.

Exactly, my point. Even if you do get on her to shut her down she just usss her steroid, gain 40% damage reduction AND hurting you. Not to mention she can give it to tibbers...

Pierce The VealJun 17, 20171 votes

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Warwick's is better. So is Ali's.

Neither have an almost 100% uptime.

Asayake 5150glowJun 17, 20171 votes

Annie was made to counter assassins, this shield lets her do so (for example she won't be able to stun a Fizz when she's knocked up and he's untargetable).

Her winrate is due to being an easy champion.

Pierce The VealJun 18, 20171 votes

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Annie was made to counter assassins, this shield lets her do so (for example she won't be able to stun a Fizz when she's knocked up and he's untargetable).

Her winrate is due to being an easy champion.

That 40% damage reduction doesn't really care whether the person across from her is an assassin or a tank. I've heard this same excuse before and let me tell you, with her kit she already completely trashes assassins even without turning on her shield. Her shield makes her untouchable to everyone, and adds insult to injury. It is utterly bullshit that a regular ability can give FORTY percent damage reduction while being up 70% of the time. A smart annie can simply stun them when it's not up and wait on cooldowns when it is, and there will be simply nothing you can do against her.

Asayake 5150glowJun 18, 20171 votes

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That 40% damage reduction doesn't really care whether the person across from her is an assassin or a tank. I've heard this same excuse before and let me tell you, with her kit she already completely trashes assassins even without turning on her shield. Her shield makes her untouchable to everyone, and adds insult to injury. It is utterly bullshit that a regular ability can give FORTY percent damage reduction while being up 70% of the time. A smart annie can simply stun them when it's not up and wait on cooldowns when it is, and there will be simply nothing you can do against her.

You can't do shit to a Fizz who landed his R. When he'd get into Tibber's range, or Q range, he's troll polling. When he lands, his R knocks you up. That's why most mages are fucked so hard by Fizz.

Annie is pretty much a battle mages. She's got fairly low cooldowns and high DPS, with high burst and hard CC. Think of her as a ranged juggernaut. Being a juggernaut she gets E for damage reduction, but she's pretty squishy once it's down.

And if you think ranged juggernauts are stupid, I'll have to agree, but battlemages are literally ranged juggernauts, except squishier.

Pierce The VealJun 18, 20171 votes

But 99% of assassins can't pull the shit Fizz can. Actually, he's the only one who can do that shit. What is more likely to happen is

A) Annie fucks up and ends up getting bursted by assassin, doesn't die though because damage resuction and proceeds to 100-0 the assassin.

B) Assassin jumps on Annie only to instantly die without being able to do anything.

There basically isn't any other alternative.

If it's a juggernaut instead of an assassin they'll just be kited.

In short, Annie just shits on almost everybody. Just because it doesn't fit the current circlejerks of the time doesn't mean Annie isn't batshit OP.