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.
Udyr is one of the best junglers in the game. Taking advantage of this can give your team a large XP advantage and map control.
Damage is applied to turtle shield post-mitigation. Therefore, buying defensive items can drastically increase your survivability.
The Annie Udyr synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Udyr, 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 Udyr. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Udyr helps Annie perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Annie tries to synergize with Udyr, she sees a small increase in her complete damage output. This change may signal that Udyr provides protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Annie is played with Udyr on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Udyr.
Additionally, when Annie plays with Udyr on the same team, she often receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Udyr does a poor job of covering Annie in teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Annie that will always be her best synergy. Yet, overall, Udyr is a relatively poor teammate for Annie. By locking into the same side as Annie, he lowers their win rate by -1.8% to 47.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad synergy between Annie and Udyr that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Udyr has a greater difficulty than Annie. That means you must be careful when lining up Udyr teammates to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by bringing Annie and Udyr together, you may not be providing your other teammates a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to include other champs on your team that fills this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Udyr ally, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Annie in order to work well with Udyr during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to focus on in your Annie and Udyr synergy build include Malignance, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Annie included at least these three finished items in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Udyr than with most other common item sets. In fact, Annie had an average winrate of 47.5% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Udyr with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should equip 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 players chose for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Udyr with Annie are displayed for all skill levels, merged. To filter the statistics and builds to a particular rank, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.