48983507DEL12 votesAnnie Mid is my main and for a good reason: She's got a strong early game and a strong late game. Her damage output is insane, her last hitting capability is very convinient, her super high range auto attacks are good for last hitting even against longer ranged champs like Lux and Ziggs and she can easily burst them if she can dodge their skills to get close to them, and she counters my arch enemy, Akali, as well as other assassins. Her problem is her Mid game, as she is difficult to roam with since she has no gap closer and can easily be caught out. She is also countered by champs like Syndra and Oriana since they have a better zoning capability than Lux or Ziggs with just as much burst as Annie. Also, although she can easily win lane against champs like Zed and Fizz, she is super countered by assassins with a lot of mobility, as they can perform outplays by dodging Tibbers unlike assassins like Akali and now Talon, although a good Talon should still be able to pull off his burst before an Annie can react. Her final weakness is her reliability on 
, since she has no gap closer. It is her escape, engage, and outplay tool and without it she is super vulnerable; it you get caught, you have to use it to escape, which means you won't have it for the next teamfight when you need it to engage. This can be solved, however, with the Summoner's Insight Mastery and with 
Distortion Enchanted Boots, to lower the cooldown of Flash. Annie is super strong especially at lower Elos and can easily get you out of Bronze or Silver by taking her Mid and even Support (you're gonna have to hope they don't pick Morgana, Caitlyn, or Leona, although Caitlyn can be bursted even though she is poky, and Leona can be poked even though she is bursty, but Morgana is nearly impossibly). I don't want people to pick her up, however, because then I can't use her :p
Llanite2 votesSimple point-and-click OP.
KzooCrasher1 votesBeen playing her for several months now with a 70% win rate. This is not new and you convienently left out her other counters and all her downsides.
chriserit1 votesI am playing her by 1-2 months and yea she is really good but there is one thing you should think about ... all the champions actually popular in mid are countered by annie (zed, fizz, yasuo and so on) so yea she is pretty strong but try to play her against a syndra, orianna and similar she will no more be so awesome
so... I think actually the real problem it's about popular champ not about annie
Salidfingers1 votesUsually always the case.
disregardable1 votesAnother problem I've had with Annie is roaming. She just doesn't have any.
Salidfingers1 votesShe has one of the best roams with a early stun
Sailor Mint1 votesShe doesn't have strong wave clear for a while, especially on standard Q first builds. The nerf to her base numbers made rushing Sorc shoes a lot worse.
Her support roams with mobo are really strong, mostly because she doesn't have to deal with wave management.
Salidfingers1 votesThere has been times where I just naturally pushed and went bot at level 4 and gotten first blood. Not saying you can do it all the time, but the early stun to bot lane is amazing if you pull it off. You don't need mobos for that.
FarRockBF1 votesI main annie mid. She is just bad versus AP mids (short cast range) but strong versus the current AD mid meta.
Sailor Mint1 votesAnnie and Lux are two champions that never fully disappear from the mid lane meta.
Her base damage got hit so her level 6 is a lot weaker than it used to.
Drogmyre1 votesI really wish Lux would just go fuck off for a season or so. Even half a season. Even if she's not strong, she's just a massive pain in my ass.
xJLx MCHammer1 votesI play a lot of Annie mid. Like you said, Plats and higher know how to deal with her. Her range is small so they know how to Zone and still stay within save range.
Pros -Easy to CS -Stuns -Free Mr -Teddy -huge nuker
Cons -Range -CD -Easy to gank
The reality is, when you starting playing vs those plat Syndra, xerath, and other long range mids, you start to hate Annie because you can't deal with it. You will never get to use R,Q,E without burning a flash
Final GirI1 votesI have somewhere around 43 games played with Annie in Ranked and about a 63% win rate. She is great even against AP mids, not just AD mids.
FarRockBF2 votesI have somewhere around 43 games played with Annie in Ranked and about a 63% win rate. She is great even against AP mids, not just AD mids.
You are bronze. Not hating, just in bronze AP mids don't understand what a huge advantage having longer cast range is...
Try laning vs a gold+ AP mid laner...
Final GirI1 votesI have somewhere around 43 games played with Annie in Ranked and about a 63% win rate. She is great even against AP mids, not just AD mids.
You are bronze. Not hating, just in bronze AP mids don't understand what a huge advantage having longer cast range is...
Try laning vs a gold+ AP mid laner...
You're right, I am Bronze. Doesn't mean I don't know anything about the game. Anytime I try to talk about anything or put my view into it, assholes like yourself come along and just tell me I don't know anything cuz I'm bronze.
Direwolfiez2 votesPeople shit on me whenever I post here because I'm unranked. I know that feel, bro.
Sailor Mint1 votesIt's been working out just fine for Annie Bot!
Salidfingers1 votesI remember when I used to take Annie mid people used to mock me.
Talon "was" an easy counter against her to.
Perfect example that talon controlled the ap burst mages that where the only ones complaining in mid. Now since he left the scene other are becoming out of control
Direwolfiez1 votesI remember when I used to take Annie mid people used to mock me.
Right? People boot me all the time in Team Builder when I try and play Annie mid, but I usually end up carrying hard with her. People just think she's only useful as a support. Ha.
Final GirI2 votesI remember when I used to take Annie mid people used to mock me.
Right? People boot me all the time in Team Builder when I try and play Annie mid, but I usually end up carrying hard with her. People just think she's only useful as a support. Ha.
I miss Season 3, back when Annie mid was a real thing and Annie support was the weird thing.
Sire Hippington1 votesshe's great mid unless u face a longranged mage, without flash there is little u can do vs syndra, xerath, lux and co as they simply outrange u. vs anything with about annies range, she's a monster though. Thats why i think that toplane Annie is even stronger than midlane Annie, she's prettymuch a better vs off Ryze. alos, 625range aa harras ftw.
SouL1ess1 votesWeakness is Talon? Roflmao.
Annie is fking annoying to a Talon.
I would rather play someone like Brand or Anivia or Zed against Annie instead of Talon.
Also I'm unranked and Annie mid is not really a headache, so I don't know why no one in gold knows how to deal with Annie.
