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.
Using Blitzcrank's grab to pull an enemy into your tower range followed by a Power Fist will allow the tower to get several hits on them.
The 1-2-3 combo of Rocket Grab, Power Fist, and Static Field can devastate an individual opponent.
The Annie Blitzcrank synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Blitzcrank, 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 Blitzcrank. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Blitzcrank helps Annie perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Annie is paired with Blitzcrank, she sees a small increase in her full damage dealt. This change may signal that Blitzcrank helps provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Annie is played alongside Blitzcrank on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Blitzcrank. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Blitzcrank.
Moreover, when Annie plays with Blitzcrank on the same side, she often receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Blitzcrank does a decent job of covering Annie during team fights.
There is no perfect champion pairing for Annie that will always be her ideal teammate. Yet, Blitzcrank is a fantastic companion for Annie. By being on the same side as Annie, he increases their win rate by 4.1% to 53.4%. This proves that there is a very real strategic relationship between Annie and Blitzcrank that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Blitzcrank has a lower difficulty than Annie. That means Annie players don't need to be very careful when lining up Blitzcrank allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting together, Annie players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Annie and Blitzcrank together, you may not be granting your side a lot of AD. We recommend you include other champions on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Blitzcrank ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Annie in order to pair well with Blitzcrank during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to use in your Annie and Blitzcrank synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Stormsurge. When Annie used at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Blitzcrank than with most other common builds. In fact, Annie had an average winrate of 53.4% helping carry Blitzcrank with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Manaflow Band runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Annie and Blitzcrank pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 53.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Blitzcrank with Annie are given for every ranked division. If you would like to filter the statistics and builds to a distinct division, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.