Don't go in first to a large teamfight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Tumble has many uses, but it cannot pass over walls.
Condemn can be used to both pin targets to walls to ensure a kill, or to escape a pursuer.
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 stat comparisons provided here emphasize several valuable Vayne vs. Annie counter stats that can help you grasp the distinctions between this pair of champions. As an example, Vayne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Annie’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Vayne may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Annie..
Vayne normally has a similar longest killing spree as her matchup does. On average, she takes more damage than Annie. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Vayne usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Annie, with a 49.2% win rate. Therefore, Vayne makes an ok counter to Annie.
While Vayne does have a lower win rate than Annie, when facing one another, Vayne also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Vayne into Annieas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Vayne has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Annie. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Vayne vs Annie matchups, Annie is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Vayne is a somewhat poor counter for Annie. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Vayne against Annie.
To truly master Vayne to counter Annie during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vayne on average racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Annie. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Vayne versus Annie build include Statikk Shiv, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Vayne used at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better vs Annie than with most other common builds. In fact, Vayne boasted an average win rate of 49.2% battling Annie with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Annie as Vayne, Vayne players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Vayne vs Annie fights, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.2% winrate overall.
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