So, when I first started league, Annie was very OP and she was VERY hard to counter. That is why I used her. But a few months ago, Annie was very easy to counter and her Timmers was weak. Now when I play league, she is nerfed again? I wish I known this when I was banning -_-
Zelorxon1 votesCALL JARED HE'S CRYING BibleThump
BlueBilberry1 votesAnnie is doing not badly generally but like quite a few mages, the Rylai nerf has changed how she is played. (I was reminded of this by how squishy she can be in a King Poro game last night.)
I think the devs will notice that after they buff the more obvious champs for their post-Rylai-nerf compensation (Mal, Viktor, Rumble, Elise, Vlad), then they will find that some of the other champs that required Rylai's in certain situations (like Annie and even Heimer) are going to start to drop off. (Sad when a group of complainers get their pleas and it has unintended consequences for an entire class.)
Speaking of interesting quirky bans and mages, it's worth nothing that similarly Heimer is not doing well in mid according to champion.gg - see http://champion.gg/champion/Heimerdinger/Middle. 6.22-6.24 have not been good for the simple to play mages.
hunterspec1 voteswhy are people calling annie op as fuck and begging for nerfs but not veigar with a monster aoe stun and a one shot w and missing health ult?
Avienal1 voteswhy are people calling annie op as fuck and begging for nerfs but not veigar with a monster aoe stun and a one shot w and missing health ult?
because 1, Veigar's E has a wind up so its relatively 'easy' to give enough time to proc a flash or similar ability, 2. you can move inside the cage long as you don't hit the wall which can let you dodge his W and even Q to an extent, 3. you can flash 'out' of the cage because when does ANYONE ever not get Flash outside of me wanting to renounce the cheese meta skill or niche build champions like Hecarim who can use ghost for instant damage boost.
Ultimately Annie is the simple mage who can do lots of raw damage and not have some utterly broken mechanics that does % health damage, % true damage, have 2 to 5 forms of CC and actually has a clear indicator on when she is ready to stun blast you, so if she is charged she can't waste it on a minion which could open her up for a dive or she needs to time building up charges for when to flash W or Flash R stun multiple enemies.
Just like Master Yi, Just like Ashe, Just like Garen, they are all simple champions that are easy to pick up and easy to be quite strong at what they do, but less the game meta tilts to them in the form of staple items for them getting strong or the champions that utterly screw them over get weakened alot, they tend to never by themselves be extremely broken piece of champions.
