Caitlyn with Annie
How to Synergize Caitlyn and Annie
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Caitlyn Annie Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Caitlyn and Annie
Tips for Playing as Caitlyn with Annie
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.
Advice to Understand How Annie Will Play
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.
Caitlyn Annie Synergy Stats
How to Play with Annie as Caitlyn in LoL
The Caitlyn Annie synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Annie, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Caitlyn sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Annie. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Annie helps Caitlyn perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Caitlyn tries to synergize with Annie, she gets a barely noticable drop in her complete damage output. This difference may indicate that Annie does not provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Caitlyn is played with Annie on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Annie. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Annie.
Additionally, when Caitlyn plays with Annie on the same side, she typically receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Annie does a decent job of protecting Caitlyn during teamfights.
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Is Caitlyn better when played alongside Annie?
There is no perfect companion for Caitlyn that will no matter what be her best teammate. Yet, Annie is a very typical companion for Caitlyn. By locking into the same team as Caitlyn, she drops their win rate by -0.6% to 48.7%. This shows that there is not really a strong synergy between Caitlyn and Annie that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Annie has a lower difficulty than Caitlyn. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Annie allies to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Caitlyn and Annie together, you may not be giving your team a great deal of protection for burst damage. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Annie ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing 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 learn all of the intricacies of Caitlyn to work well with Annie during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to have in your Caitlyn and Annie synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, The Collector, and Axiom Arc. When Caitlyn included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Annie than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Caitlyn boasted an average winrate of 48.7% helping carry Annie with this build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Caitlyn and Annie pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.7% win rate overall.
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