My names Haydos and I'm and Annie player from OCE, I reached Diamond in S11 with a 65% winrate and Diamond 1 50lp in S12. Hope this guide helps you out in your climb, feel free to leave a comment :)

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S12:

Early Game

In the early game we want to be making use of our large attack range and mostly getting the push on our enemy laner, gettting lvl 2 first and having lane freedom.

Once we get lvl 3 we can start looking for stun combos between enemy cooldowns, be cautious of mana, but with biscuit and your starter item it shouldn't be much of an issue. People often underestimate annies ability to kill early, if we can get some free combos off in the early game, an all in with ignite is almost always going to be a kill, dont underestimate your all in early.

Annie's lvl 6 is one of the strongest in the game, every game we should be looking for an all-in when we have our ultimate. Doing this at lvl 6 will almost always force the enemy to leave the lane and give you a gold lead, or better yet get a kill.

This is an example of the damage at lvl 6 in challenger
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Mid and Late Game

Once we get to the mid and late game we should always be looking for ways to influence the map whether that be by kills or objectives. I would always be shoving out whatever lane you're in and looking to roam by this stage.

Here are the main roaming paths:

As Annie we want to be playing around vision and making valuable picks. Below are the bushes that you can control ward to make cheesy picks around objective timers.

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When walking out of base we want to be looking at all lane states, including our own. If the mid wave is in a stable position or the mid laner just based, we can look to roam and move our impact around the map.

1. Try to trade when you have 3 stacks and E up. This way you can use E to gain movement speed and start your combo off with a stun (Q-W-Auto)

2. you can stall your Q to stun targets and make valuable isolations. If you use an ability whilst the q missle is in the air, the Q will end up being the stunning spell. In extreme situations you can stun with 1 stack (1stack-E-Q-W(air)-R(air)

3. Whenever you can use Q to stun you should do it, its a certain and takes out any counterplay

4. When making a flash play, look for a flash W over a flash R, W is instant while r has a channel time so it limits the reaction capabilities.

Flash is the most important thing with Annies kit. We should be timing our flashes with major objective teamfights and not be wasting them on 1. surviving a kill that means very little and 2. Getting a kill that means nothing. Since flash is up every 5 mins (bit less with cosmic insight), I'd be looking to time flash with every single drag/baron fight, whether that be to get a multiple person stun or to get a valuable pick.

In this clip you will see me utilize the flash W tip as well as having flash available to set up an objective play (Baron was up and Drag < 1 minute): Play Video

The survivability patch hurts Annie alot, you will find many circumstances where people survive when they otherwise shouldn't. Still testing out some builds but it looks like rocketbelt electrocute is still going to be the best option. Liandries shadowflame feels like a strong option, but one shotting is more important than ever and after 2 items with protobelt/ludens this is still entirely possible. I would only be taking predator into matchups that can roam well (Twisted Fate) lmk in comments any builds you guys want an opinion on.

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