Darius with Annie
How to Synergize Darius and Annie
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Darius Annie Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Darius and Annie
Tips for Playing as Darius with Annie
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
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.
Darius Annie Synergy Stats
How to Play with Annie as Darius in LoL
The Darius Annie synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Annie, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Darius sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Annie. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Annie helps Darius perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Darius tries to synergize with Annie, he observes a small increase in his total damage output. This difference could indicate that Annie helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Darius is played together with Annie on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Annie.
Moreover, when Darius plays with Annie on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Annie does a poor job of covering Darius in team fights.
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Is Darius better when played alongside Annie?
There is no ideal synergy for Darius that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. Yet, Annie is a very typical teammate for Darius. By locking into the same side as Darius, she decreases their win rate by -0.5% to 48.7%. This demonstrates that there is only a small synergy between Darius and Annie that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Annie has a much greater difficulty compared to Darius. That means Darius players need to be cautious when finding Annie comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much greater level of skill to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by aligning Darius and Annie together, you probably will not be granting your side enough tankyness. Plan to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Annie ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Darius in order to pair well with Annie during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Darius and Annie synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Sundered Sky. When Darius combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Annie than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Darius boasted an average winrate of 48.7% helping carry Annie with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.7% win rate overall.
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