Rank #1 Season 12 Annie Guide
UPDATED SEASON 13 BUILD + RUNE PHILOSOPHY
Annie’s Best Builds:
Ludens -> Shadowflame -> Death Cap -> Void Staff -> Situational
Good for burst damage, solo carrying, and good into squishy teams
Liandry’s -> Rylais -> Death Cap -> Void Staff -> Situational
Good for shredding tanks and countering low mobility / melee teams
Rocketbelt -> Shadowflame -> Death Cap -> Void Staff -> Situational
Rocketbelt active procs spell shields so super good into things like Crown of the Shattered Queen, Banshee’s Veil, Sivir E, Edge of Night, Nocturne Shield, etc.
You can make some adjustments based on the game with any of these builds. For example:
Shadowflame is a good snowball item. Build this second if you’re ahead or don’t build it at all
Mythic + Death Cap + Void Staff is the STRONGEST 3 item spike in the game. If you can skip Shadowflame (or HAVE to skip because you’re super far behind), that is 100% okay
You can REPLACE Shadowflame with void staff if the enemy team is building MR
You can add Zhonya’s wherever needed. This is a very good item in the right situations
I go sorc shoes every game, but Ionian Boots aren’t bad with the Liandry’s and Rocketbelt builds
Annie’s Best Runes
JS Default Electrocute
Main Tree: Electrocute + Cheap Shot + Eyeball Collection + Relentless Hunter
Secondary Tree: Manaflow + Scorch
You can mix in Taste of Blood, Ultimate Hunter, and other secondary runes for preference
This is what I take 90% of my annie games
First Strike Annie
Main Tree: First Strike + Perfect Timing + Future’s Market + Cosmic Insight
Secondary Tree: Manaflow + Scorch
This is a new modern style of Annie that is built to get ROA fast and scale well. It works because new Annie E lets you reflect ANY spell damage GUARANTEEING a first strike proc
I run this in very slow paced games
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