Annie fix idea

Deliberate Inter·Feb 12, 2019·1 votes·978 views

Lets make annie Q free to cast because it doesnt make sense for it to mana refunding when you want to use it to harass as well, it wont make her godly like lissandra but maybe help a little

8 Comments

SaezioFeb 12, 20191 votes

You are kidding right? The whole point of it returning mana and CD is to help her farm.

Deliberate InterFeb 12, 20191 votes

then let it restore mana but not cost anything problem solved

SaezioFeb 12, 20191 votes

But it doesnt restore, It refunds it's mana cost and 50% cd IF you kill the target. The point is, that you have tools to farm without running out of mana. And it accomplishes that goal. Making it free would make it a trading tool. which it is not supposed to be.

Deliberate InterFeb 12, 20191 votes

You misunderstand, you can give a restore effect equivilent to mana refund now. She can trade AND farm with it as player decides and ofc, that makes skill floor and ceiling hgiehr cuaz what do ffrom the moment to moment. It is a good fix for a champion who needs let's be honest it's not so little a little bit of #love.

SaezioFeb 12, 20191 votes

But still the restore would only happen on lasthits? What's the difference? If the restore happened always, it's the same as making the spell free. And it's her most used spell so it's a huge buff.

Deliberate InterFeb 12, 20191 votes

No, the restore happens no matter what so annie gains mana if she uses Q on the enemy champion and if she kills a minion the CD is reduced by half and she gains the mana. Helps her get more Ws off , farm easier and also trade easier. it would help her but still keep her from being an A B or even C tier mage.

SaezioFeb 12, 20191 votes

I don't think that would be the right direction for annie. I think they should find a way to make her more challenging to play as and against. I think her skill floor and ceiling should be more apart from each other. Find a way to lower the floor and make her ceiling higher.

Deliberate InterFeb 12, 20191 votes

The skill ceiling for any champion will ALWAYS be higher than the best human player because we will never be able to click in front of us to attack or input anything while moving backwards in the same frame (like a scripter could do for example) so that nonsense about skill ceilings are a bad meme. That said, annie is a VERY difficult champion to play well because she is so short ranged, telegraphed and subject to predicable windows of burst and you need to dash dance very well / have very good spacing to get value on her. She is also extremely hard to play into MANY team comps and matchups, this is definitely the right direction to take annie if you want to preserve anything that makes her who she is today ;)