Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
The Annie Ahri synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ahri, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Annie sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Ahri. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Ahri helps Annie perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Annie plays on the same team as Ahri, she gets a pretty big loss in her total damage dealt. This may indicate that Ahri does not support by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Annie is played alongside Ahri on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Ahri.
Moreover, when Annie plays with Ahri on the same side, she often takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Ahri does a decent job of protecting Annie in teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best companion for Annie that will always be her top synergy. Yet, overall, Ahri is a very bad ally for Annie. By being on the same side as Annie, she drops their win rate by -3.6% to 45.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a very bad bond between Annie and Ahri that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Ahri has a lower difficulty than Annie. That means Annie players don't need to be very careful when finding Ahri teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
Working together, Annie players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by grouping Annie and Ahri together, you will not be giving your other teammates very much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Ahri ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Annie in order to pair well with Ahri during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to include in your Annie and Ahri synergy build include Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Stormsurge. When Annie included at least these three great items in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Ahri than with many other typical builds. In fact, Annie had an average win rate of 45.7% when playing alongside Ahri with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Manaflow Band runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Annie and Ahri pairings, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 45.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Ahri with Annie are presented for all ranked divisions. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.