I feel that I am basically a punching bag until 6. People have more range, more damage and more sustain than annie. With the E changes now Syndra just straight up kills you 6 and you can't survive with a well timed E. I feel like vlad will just out sustain your mana pool. I don't think Annie is a hyper carry or something that would justify getting kicked around so hard early game. I'm not talking about anything huge.
What Annie needs is the mana cost of her W drastically reduced and refunded when she kills minion. Increase her W damage if need be, for a melee spell it's very weak early on.
Annie is bullied very easily because she has atrocious wavepush, so she always gets shoved in while outranged.
She's supposed to be a skirmish/teamfight champ, so she should have strong wavepush to be able to roam since she'll never be a good 1v1 midlaner with her lack of DPS and range.
Id like to see something. Maybe even an orianna like passive where her autos get a bit of ap damage, or a pseudo sheen passive.
Annie needs a mini-rework to be more fun. Just replacing her Q with something more exciting would be a step forward. In the Onslaught gamemode, Jinx had an upgrade that made her flame chompers chase after nearby targets. A similar effect could be used for Annie. Her Q could summon a small fire elemental (visually, a poro made of flame) that Annie throws as a bouncing skill shot in a direction. If the skill shot misses, then the fire elemental starts seeking out the nearest target to explode on. It would be similar to Maokai's saplings, except the fire elemental would not persist as a ward. If it doesn't reach a target to explode on within 2 seconds or so after landing, it would simply fizzle out. As a compensation for becoming a skill shot, the cooldown and mana costs could be lowered, allowing Annie to create chaos by barraging the enemies with a hail of bouncing fire elementals. It would add a lot of excitement to Annie's kit. Let's be honest, the current targeted point-and-click Q is very boring, being no more interesting than a stronger autoattack.
That would be nice, at least better wave clear please
She has less damage, less wave clear, less mobility, less range than every other champ midlane pre-6
Post 6 she's still worse in every category than most of the popular assassin roster, but at least she can kill other mages once every 5 min
