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.
Devastating Charge deals more damage based on the distance traveled. Try using Onslaught of Shadows or Summoner Spells such as Ghost or Flash to maximize this damage.
Spirit of Dread restores Health when nearby enemies take damage, including damage dealt by allies. Cast this during a large fight to maximize Hecarim's survivability.
The Annie Hecarim synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Hecarim, 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 very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Hecarim. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Hecarim helps Annie perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Annie is paired with Hecarim, she observes a small decrease in her full damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Hecarim doesn't help cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Annie is played with Hecarim on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Hecarim.
Moreover, when Annie plays with Hecarim on the same side, she on average receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Hecarim does a decent job of protecting Annie during team fights.
There is no top champion pairing for Annie that will no matter what be her ideal teammate. Yet, Hecarim is a very typical ally for Annie. By locking into the same side as Annie, he improves their win rate by 0.4% to 49.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak synergy between Annie and Hecarim that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Hecarim has a lower difficulty than Annie. That means Annie players don't need to be very careful when arranging Hecarim comrades to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to work well with you.
When playing on the same side, Annie players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Annie and Hecarim together, you may not be granting your other allies a great deal of engage potential. Plan to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Hecarim ally, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Annie in order to pair well with Hecarim during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to include in your Annie and Hecarim synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Annie included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Hecarim than with many other typical builds. In fact, Annie had an average win rate of 49.7% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Hecarim with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, Annie players 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 that we analyzed for Annie and Hecarim pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.7% winrate overall.
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