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Annie Build

Top Tier 2

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 853 gamesUpdated

52.6%win rate0.0%pick0.8%ban

Who counters Annie

How to build Annie

Sorcerer's Shoes→Malignance→Shadowflame→Stormsurge

Sorcerer's Shoes → Malignance → Shadowflame → Stormsurge

54.4% win rate 12% of games 57 games
RunesDominationElectrocuteCheap ShotGrisly MementosRelentless HunterSorceryAbsolute FocusAxiom Arcanist41% of games
SpellsFlashIgniteFlash + Ignite73%
Skills
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Disintegrate
13457
Incinerate
89101213
Molten Shield
214151718
Summon: Tibbers
61116
StartDoran's RingHealth PotionHealth PotionDoran's Ring, Health Potion, Health Potion
Full Annie build →
52.6%win rate
Patch 26.20: 52.3% over 2,166 gamesPatch 26.21: 52.6% over 853 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
55.0%at Emerald+
0.0%pick rate
0.8%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
43.5%under 22 min
59.7%over 32 min

Annie Top gets better as the elo rises. 52.6% across Silver and above, and 55.0% at Emerald and up. It rewards players who know the matchup.

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Win 15–20m
MASTER+
Annie champion portraitT AnnievsJayce champion portraitT Jayce
5 / 4 / 1

Build

Sorcerer's Shoes|Malignance

Spells & runes

FlashTeleport|

Skills

QEQWQRQWQWRW
Loss 35–40m
MASTER+
Annie champion portraitT AnnievsIrelia champion portraitT Irelia
5 / 8 / 17

Build

Boots of Swiftness|Malignance→Shurelya's Battlesong→Rabadon's Deathcap

Spells & runes

IgniteFlash|

Skills

QEWQQRWWWWRQQEEREE
Loss 25–30m
MASTER+
Annie champion portraitT AnnievsRiven champion portraitT Riven
4 / 9 / 2

Build

Sorcerer's Shoes|Malignance→Hextech Rocketbelt

Spells & runes

IgniteFlash|

Skills

QWEQQRQWQWRWWE

Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 49.8% win rate · 41% of games · 233 games
DominationElectrocuteCheap ShotGrisly MementosRelentless Hunter
SorceryAbsolute FocusAxiom Arcanist
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 50.0% win rate · 17% of games · 98 games
SorceryDeathfire TouchManaflow BandCelerityScorch
PrecisionCut DownLegend: Haste
Shards Attack Speed · Move Speed · Health

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashIgniteFlash + Ignite73%52.6%635 games
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport20%55.5%173 games

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Sorcerer's Shoes76%Ionian Boots of Lucidity12%Boots4%
Sorcerer's Shoes most often · 54.9% win rate

Annie build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

Whole-build counts start over with every patch, and Annie Top is at 857 games so far this patch. The full build shows up here at 300.

Every slot, boots and full build for Annie →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 857 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Sorcerer's ShoesSorcerer's Shoes
75% · 55.0% win rate
Ionian Boots of LucidityIonian Boots of Lucidity
12% · 44.2% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Malignance+Sorcerer's Shoes6% of games · 43.8% win rate · 48 games
  2. Malignance›Stormsurge+Sorcerer's Shoes5% of games · 39.5% win rate · 43 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Annie against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Annie's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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