Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
Annie's summoned bear, Tibbers, burns opposing units around himself. Try to keep your distance from him after he's been summoned.
Keep an eye out for a white, swirling power around Annie. It means she's ready to unleash her stun.
Summoner Smite can be used to help take down Tibbers.
The stats shown here show several influential Kai'Sa against Annie counter stats that may help us interpret the differences between the pair. Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Annie’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Annie..
Kai'Sa often has a similar longest killing spree as her foe does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Annie. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kai'Sa usually loses when trying to fight Annie, with a 47.7% win rate. Therefore, Kai'Sa makes a poor counter for Annie.
While Kai'Sa does have a lower winrate compared to Annie, when they face off with one another, Kai'Sa also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champion to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Kai'Sa into Annie.
Additionally, Kai'Sa has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Annie. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa vs Annie matchups, Annie is the better champ with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Kai'Sa is a terribly counter to Annie. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kai'Sa against Annie.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kai'Sa to counter Annie during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa most often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Annie. Champs who on average don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Kai'Sa versus Annie build consist of Wit's End, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Terminus. When Kai'Sa included at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better vs Annie than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Kai'Sa boasted an average winrate of 47.7% when countering Annie with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Annie as Kai'Sa, Kai'Sa players should take the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Kai'Sa vs Annie face-offs, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.7% winrate overall.
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