Annie with Rek'Sai
How to Synergize Annie and Rek'Sai
based on 320 Annie with Rek'Sai pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Annie Rek'Sai Synergy Summary
Best Annie vs Rek'Sai Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Annie and Rek'Sai
Tips for Playing as Annie with Rek'Sai
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 Rek'Sai Will Play
Keeping tunnels spread out across the map will ensure you have choices when you want to cast Void Rush.
Cast Burrow before travelling around the map to take advantage of the increased Move Speed and the safety provided by Tremor Sense.
Tremor Sense can warn you of enemies closing in, and is particularly useful when entering enemy territory.
Annie Rek'Sai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rek'Sai as Annie in LoL
The Annie Rek'Sai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rek'Sai, 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 large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Rek'Sai. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Rek'Sai helps Annie perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Annie is an ally to Rek'Sai, she sees a little increase in her total damage dealt. This change may indicate that Rek'Sai helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Annie is played with Rek'Sai 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 synergisticly with Rek'Sai.
Moreover, when Annie plays with Rek'Sai on the same side, she typically takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Rek'Sai does a decent job of protecting Annie in teamfights.
Synergies between Annie and Rek'Sai
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Is Annie better when played alongside Rek'Sai?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Annie that will always be her top teammate. Yet, Rek'Sai is a relatively poor teammate for Annie. By being on the same team as Annie, he drops their win rate by -2.4% to 46.9%. This shows that there is a bad bond between Annie and Rek'Sai that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Rek'Sai has a much lower diffuclty than Annie. That means Annie players don't need to be cautious when finding Rek'Sai allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Working on the same side, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by bringing Annie and Rek'Sai together, you will not be providing your team a great deal of engage potential. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Rek'Sai ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, 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 to work well with Rek'Sai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Annie and Rek'Sai synergy build include Malignance, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Annie bought at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Rek'Sai than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Annie had an average winrate of 46.9% helping carry Rek'Sai with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Manaflow Band runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Annie and Rek'Sai pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.9% win rate overall.
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