Annie with Poppy
How to Synergize Annie and Poppy
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Annie Poppy Synergy Summary
Best Annie vs Poppy Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Annie and Poppy
Tips for Playing as Annie with Poppy
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 Poppy Will Play
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
Annie Poppy Synergy Stats
How to Play with Poppy as Annie in LoL
The Annie Poppy synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Poppy, 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 Poppy. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Poppy helps Annie perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Annie is an ally to Poppy, she gets a marginal improvement in her complete damage dealt. This difference could signal that Poppy helps provide cover for her to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Annie is played alongside Poppy 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 Poppy.
Moreover, when Annie plays with Poppy on the same team, she usually receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Poppy does a poor job of protecting Annie in teamfights.
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Is Annie better when played alongside Poppy?
There is no ideal synergy for Annie that will always be her #1 synergy. Yet, Poppy is a below average companion for Annie. By locking into the same team as Annie, she decreases their win rate by -1.9% to 47.4%. This shows that there is a negative bond between Annie and Poppy that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Poppy has a lower difficulty than Annie. That means Annie players don't need to be cautious when lining up Poppy comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide utility and CC for your side. Together, these champs should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
In contrast, by aligning Annie and Poppy together, you probably will not be giving your other allies enough attack damage. Plan to have other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Poppy teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Annie in order to pair well with Poppy during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to include in your Annie and Poppy synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Shadowflame. When Annie bought at least these three great items in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Poppy than with many other common item sets. In fact, Annie boasted an average win rate of 47.4% when playing alongside Poppy with this build.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, you should use 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 builds players used for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.4% win rate overall.
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