Brandi wrote:So I really really like Annie but I'm not too great with her. If anyone know of any good guides I should read about for her... or just the game in general, that would be helpful~ Because even though I'd love to play with most of you, you are all at or near level 30 and so I feel more accomplished being able to get a couple kills in noob games than maybe pulling off an assist and trying to die less than 10 times with all you pro's <_<;
I'd link some guides that I found on a quick search, but they all recommend mejai's soulstealer, which I feel is not at all a good item choice, so yeah.
I
can
give play advice, as can most of the people here, if that's what you want.
When it comes to playing annie specifically, a main thing is to use disintegrate (her q) as a last hit on minions. Since you get the mana back on each kill it's equivalent to an auto attack and makes farming gold
much
easier. Her ult is a really, really great way to make use of your passive stun, as it's got the largest area of effect / longest effective range of her spells. Don't forget to use alt + right click to control tibbers. Even after you've casted and someone has seemingly gotten away in a fight, you can alt + right click to send tibbers after them. This is actually an effective tool in lane if you miss a kill with your combo, as tibbers is essentially free harass and can sometimes even finish particularly low champions.
Even if you don't have tibbers for the stun ,using your w is also fine. Both of them are AoE, meaning it's possible to get multiple enemies (and in team fights you should be focusing on getting the more-than-one stun and then blowing up a squishy champion whenever possible). Also consider alternative uses for your stun other than offense: if you see a nunu charging his ult or katarina casting her ult, you should stun them asap, even if you have to use your q to do it.
When it comes to overall playstyle, I tend to play a more last-hit focused annie until about level 4, but you should feel free to act aggressively in lane before then. Charging up your stun and then using it on the enemy champ(s) for essentially free harass is an effective tool in lane. At level 6, annie has pretty much complete lane dominance against most, and you should abuse this. Charge up your stun and then push the opponents away from minions in fear of getting stunned, chase to have them pop a summoner's spell when you have no intention of blowing up on them, and slowly edge their hp down to the point where you can jump on them.
I happen to be a lover of annie even if I've not played her lately, so this is my generic advice regarding her.
Also: you should give us your summoner name, brandi. We can at least add you in game even if you don't want to play until you're better. Aside from that, I'm pretty sure most of us are even willing to play against bots to help you improve.
