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.
Xayah's attacks and abilities leave Feathers on the ground that she can later recall for massive area damage and control.
Xayah can use Featherstorm to dodge almost any ability while also creating a ton of Feathers. Try to utilize the offensive and defensive aspects of this ability.
The Annie Xayah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xayah, 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 Xayah. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Xayah helps Annie perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Annie tries to synergize with Xayah, she observes a little drop in her total damage output. This difference could indicate that Xayah does not help cover for her to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Annie is played alongside Xayah 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 with Xayah.
Additionally, when Annie plays with Xayah on the same team, she typically receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Xayah does a decent job of protecting Annie during teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Annie that will always be her top ally. Yet, overall, Xayah is a below average companion for Annie. By locking into the same team as Annie, she decreases their win rate by -2.5% to 46.8%. This proves that there is a bad synergy between Annie and Xayah that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Xayah has a lower difficulty than Annie. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Xayah comrades to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Annie players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Annie and Xayah together, you probably will not be granting your side very much tankyness. Plan to pick other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Xayah ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing 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 Xayah during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to use in your Annie and Xayah synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Annie used at least these three finished items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Xayah than with most other common builds. In fact, Annie had an average win rate of 46.8% when playing alongside Xayah with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, Annie players should take 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 sets players chose for Annie and Xayah pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.8% win rate overall.
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