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 on this page clarify some significant Seraphine against Annie matchup stats that can help us figure out the differences and similarities between these two champs. As an example, Seraphine’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Annie’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Seraphine may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Annie. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Seraphine normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Annie. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Seraphine usually wins when taking on Annie, with a 51.5% win rate. Thus, Seraphine makes a good counter to Annie.
While Seraphine does have a higher winrate than Annie, when on opposite teams, Seraphine also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Seraphine into Annie.
Furthermore, Seraphine has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Annie. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Seraphine vs Annie matchups, Seraphine is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Seraphine is a decent counter to Annie. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Seraphine against Annie.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Seraphine to counter Annie during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Seraphine on average gets a similar amount of CS relative to Annie. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Seraphine versus Annie build include Dream Maker, Moonstone Renewer, and Dawncore. When Seraphine combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when facing Annie than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Seraphine had an average winrate of 51.5% battling Annie with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Annie as Seraphine, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Triple Tonic, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Seraphine vs Annie face-offs, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Annie as Seraphine are shown for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to an individual division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.