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.
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
The Annie Brand synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Brand, 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 Brand. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Brand helps Annie perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Annie is paired with Brand, she gets a small decrease in her full damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Brand does not help protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Annie is played together with Brand 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 with Brand.
Additionally, when Annie plays with Brand on the same team, she usually takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Brand does a poor job of covering Annie in teamfights.
There is no perfect ally for Annie that will no matter what be her #1 ally. Yet, overall, Brand is a very typical teammate for Annie. By locking into the same team as Annie, he decreases their win rate by -0.7% to 48.6%. This signals that there is not really a strong bond between Annie and Brand that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Brand has a lower difficulty than Annie. That means Annie players don't need to be careful when enlisting Brand allies to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, Annie players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Annie and Brand together, you will not be granting your side a great deal of AD. We recommend you have other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Brand ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
To truly master Annie to work well with Brand during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Annie and Brand synergy build include Malignance, Shadowflame, and Liandry's Torment. When Annie combined at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Brand than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Annie boasted an average winrate of 48.6% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Brand with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, Annie players should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Absolute Focus runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Annie and Brand pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Brand with Annie are given for all ranked divisions. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a specific rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.