Blitzcrank vs Annie
How to Beat Annie as Blitzcrank
based on 2,310 Blitzcrank vs Annie matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Blitzcrank vs Annie Matchup Summary
Best Blitzcrank vs Annie Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Annie as Blitzcrank
Tips for Playing as Blitzcrank against Annie
Using Blitzcrank's grab to pull an enemy into your tower range followed by a Power Fist will allow the tower to get several hits on them.
The 1-2-3 combo of Rocket Grab, Power Fist, and Static Field can devastate an individual opponent.
Advice to Win Against Annie
Annie's summoned bear, Tibbers, burns opposing units around himself. Try to keep your distance from him after he's been summoned.
Keep an eye out for a white, swirling power around Annie. It means she's ready to unleash her stun.
Summoner Smite can be used to help take down Tibbers.
Blitzcrank vs Annie Counter Stats
How to Counter Annie with Blitzcrank in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some critical Blitzcrank against Annie counter stats that can help us interpret the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Blitzcrank’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Annie’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Blitzcrank may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Annie. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Blitzcrank typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Annie. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Blitzcrank and Annie
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Who is Better, Blitzcrank or Annie?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Blitzcrank usually wins when trying to fight Annie, with a 52.9% win rate. Thus, Blitzcrank makes a good counter for Annie.
While Blitzcrank does have a higher winrate than Annie, when on opposite teams, Blitzcrank also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult character to learn. You should be be fine when picking Blitzcrank into Annie.
Furthermore, Blitzcrank has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Annie. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Blitzcrank vs Annie matchups, Blitzcrank is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Blitzcrank is an above average counter to Annie. Focus your play on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Blitzcrank against Annie.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Blitzcrank to counter Annie during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Blitzcrank on average picks up a lot less CS compared to Annie. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Blitzcrank versus Annie build include Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Blitzcrank incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better versus Annie than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Blitzcrank boasted an average win rate of 52.9% battling Annie with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Annie as Blitzcrank, Blitzcrank players should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Celerity, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Blitzcrank vs Annie LoL games, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Annie as Blitzcrank are given for all ranked divisions. To narrow the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.