Annie with Caitlyn
How to Synergize Annie and Caitlyn
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Annie Caitlyn Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Annie and Caitlyn
Tips for Playing as Annie with Caitlyn
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 Caitlyn Will Play
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
Annie Caitlyn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Caitlyn as Annie in LoL
The Annie Caitlyn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Caitlyn, 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 Caitlyn. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Caitlyn helps Annie perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Annie plays on the same team as Caitlyn, she sees a small decrease in her complete damage dealt. This could signal that Caitlyn doesn't help protection for her to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Annie is played with Caitlyn on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Caitlyn. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Caitlyn.
Moreover, when Annie plays with Caitlyn on the same team, she often takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Caitlyn does a poor job of protecting Annie in team fights.
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Is Annie better when played alongside Caitlyn?
There is no perfect ally for Annie that will no matter what be her top synergy. However, Caitlyn is a very typical companion for Annie. By being on the same side as Annie, she lowers their win rate by -0.6% to 48.7%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong bond between Annie and Caitlyn that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Caitlyn has a lower difficulty than Annie. That means Annie players don't need to be careful when enlisting Caitlyn teammates to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Annie and Caitlyn together, you will not be giving your other teammates a lot of protection for burst damage. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Caitlyn ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Annie in order to synergize with Caitlyn during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to have in your Annie and Caitlyn synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Annie incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Caitlyn than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Annie had an average win rate of 48.7% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Caitlyn with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Absolute Focus runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.7% win rate overall.
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