Annie with Xerath
How to Synergize Annie and Xerath
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Annie Xerath Synergy Summary
Best Annie vs Xerath Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Annie and Xerath
Tips for Playing as Annie with Xerath
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.
Advice to Understand How Xerath Will Play
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
Annie Xerath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xerath as Annie in LoL
The Annie Xerath synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xerath, 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 Xerath. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Xerath helps Annie perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Annie tries to synergize with Xerath, she sees a little decrease in her complete damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Xerath doesn't help cover for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Annie is played together with Xerath on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Xerath.
Moreover, when Annie plays with Xerath on the same side, she typically receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Xerath does a poor job of covering Annie during teamfights.
Synergies between Annie and Xerath
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Is Annie better when played alongside Xerath?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Annie that will always be her top ally. Yet, Xerath is a very typical companion for Annie. By playing on the same team as Annie, he lowers their win rate by -0.2% to 49.1%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between Annie and Xerath that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Xerath has a greater difficulty than Annie. That means Annie players must be careful when finding Xerath teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting together, Annie players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Annie and Xerath together, you probably will not be giving your side a great deal of AD. We recommend you include other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your Xerath ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Annie to synergize with Xerath during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to build first in your Annie and Xerath synergy build consist of Malignance, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Annie bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when fighting alongside Xerath than with most other common builds. In fact, Annie had an average win rate of 49.1% when playing alongside Xerath with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing 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 runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.1% winrate overall.
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