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Annie - Ruining League for Me

PunkDisorder·3/6/2016, 4:48:32 AM·2 votes·894 views

I've noticed something lately. Every time that I take a break from league, it's after I've played against Annie.

Riot Games. You are making a game. Games are supposed to be fun. If something is in the game that makes players want to stop playing it, you should take it seriously. Every single game I play against Annie, whether it be loss or win, is stressful and makes me feel angry. She is not FUN, assuming you remember what fun is. Her kit is not DYNAMIC. There is no COUNTERPLAY. Fix your champions before releasing more. To those who are going to bring up her win-rate, remember, this is not about win/loss, this is about how interesting and dynamic that champion is fun to play with, as, and against.

Here, let me fix her for you.

Q - Removed Mana Refund on unit kill W- No Change E - No longer goes on tibbers R- Now takes 1 second to channel, shows a red zone where the spell will be cast. Passive - Every 6 spells, up from every 4.

Tuddah!

13 Comments

Valderis Vandala3/7/2016, 12:32:13 AM3 votes

So basically you want to see her gutted into inviability.

Hentai Lewds3/11/2016, 8:33:43 AM3 votes

" Q - Removed Mana Refund on unit kill" :D go play annie and cs only with her aa then come back :) " E - No longer goes on tibbers " don't tell you focus tibs :( "R- Now takes 1 second to channel, shows a red zone where the spell will be cast." wot ya drunk m8 ? " Passive - Every 6 spells, up from every 4." how is she going to get 6 stacks if " Q - Removed Mana Refund on unit kill" :)) do you even tried to read your own post ? xD lolz She needs bufs not nerfs :) and btw i have alot of fun with her when i make plebs like you ragequit :X

48983507DEL13/7/2016, 2:24:05 AM2 votes

Addressing your proposed changes.

Annie is given the ability to CS with Q to teach new players how to last hit properly. Is it unfair? Only if you don't take advantage of this properly.

You see, if she is last hitting with Q, this means her stun won't constantly be up. If she is holding the stun, she has to CS with her auto attacks, which any person who has ever played Annie will tell you is very difficult.

While she's holding her stun, you just have to farm safely, because she will miss a lot of CS without using Q. Once she uses it, you can safely trade with her.

Is E on Tibbers really that overpowered? Really? Like, out of all things, you want THAT nerfed?

If her R is now channeled, what's stopping her from using her W as a point-and-click stun?

I already made a post about her lack of counterplay making her very punishing only if you make positioning mistakes. Other than that, her weaknesses (short range, lack of mobility, relative squishiness, etc.) are very overbearing and make her pretty sub-optimal in most matchups.

Finally, changing her passive to 6 stacks instead of 4. This is just straight up gutting her. Taking away the core part of her entire kit is NOT the way to balance her at all. If this was done, her stats would have to be substantially increased to compensate, meaning she'd be even MORE punishing when she takes advantage of her stun being up, and even LESS fun to play as/against.

Dreadlocks3/6/2016, 4:51:42 AM1 votes

Gut*

Billy VoHagen3/8/2016, 7:08:08 AM1 votes

And annie is now the worst champion.

Calabok3/8/2016, 7:45:49 PM1 votes

I agree, Buff Annie

48983507DEL13/7/2016, 12:58:46 AM1 votes

Her counterplay is actually having decent positioning. If she is able to get in range in burst you down, it means YOU made a mistake with where you are standing. She has an incredibly short range, meaning you can stay back and deal your damage without her ever being able to drop her ult on you.

Annie punishes mistakes, so naturally if you are making a lot of those, you are going to have a difficult time. She's incredibly predictable, meaning you can outplay her pretty easily if you actually know what you're doing.

Yeniboi3/6/2016, 4:57:40 AM1 votes

Just the ult. I don't even need a second, like like .5 would be enough.

RogueWill3/7/2016, 12:52:18 AM1 votes

So... how are you supposed to play Annie after that? You have an immobile mage with no real CC since you changed it to 6 spells, so either you have it at the begining of trade or you just won't have it at all. The mana refund on Q is no big deal, makes the stacking a tad easier but is not big deal, the E in tibbers is also not much of a problem, it was done so you use your tibbers besides nuking people, is nice but not needed. The 1 sec cast on ult would mean she can't no longer nuke people, the only way to make it somewhat viable woudl be to buff up the hell up of tibbers so she can do something with it, then tibbers woudl kill you without annie bing close and you still would complain