Why is Annie even allowed to be viable?
We keep Taric on trash tier because he is mechanically too simple, same thing with Sona. These champs are so easy to pick up and to play that if they were actually strong in ranked they would be completly op as 100% of their power can be accessed pretty easy. Ya know you can still play those champs and maybe win a game or so, but it is highly recommended to pick up a champ with a higher mechanical level and play with these.
But for some reason we STILL have no Annie nerfs.
And I tell ya what out of all mages in mid this one causes so much frustration it's unbelievable. Playing against some assassin? Whatever, they have to put themselves at risk mostly and if they get strong they STILL don't have hard instant cc. Playing against literally any other mage? Also fine. but Annie? No, fuck that.
I understand getting outplayed or losing a contest of skill. But losing against Annie is not that. There is barely anything in her kit that has "fail"-potential. Nothing you could dodge, nothing big you as a player could screw up... "Here let me pick this champ that will make me less likely to lose by default i and I can be 0/14235/0 and still be a massive thread to teamfights."
On top of that she is mainly the reason AP supports can't have nice things (which is the point that pisses me off the most actually). We had a strong spellthief's edge once? Oh sorry Annie abused it and became the number 1 support? Annnd it got nerfed - and since then nothing because "ap mages might suddenly go bot". This ain't about mages. Lux support was a normal thing once, WAY before we had actual support items and no one cared or though of it as OP. It's really just Annie.
So either you give her kit some goddamn complexity so she actually has to put effort into her play or nerf her to the ground.
Simple possible fixes:
1.) Turn Q into a skillshot. She could even keep the mana refund then, wouldn't care much about that. 2.) Tibbers cast no longer instant. This should have been done ages ago and everyone opposing this change is a salty Annie main abusing the unhealthiest part of her kit to win games. 3.) Make Q and W also interact with Tibbers when he is summoned. We have done this with the molten shield, why not give special effects to Q and W too?
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