Heimerdinger with Annie
How to Synergize Heimerdinger and Annie
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Heimerdinger Annie Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Heimerdinger and Annie
Tips for Playing as Heimerdinger with Annie
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
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.
Heimerdinger Annie Synergy Stats
How to Play with Annie as Heimerdinger in LoL
The Heimerdinger 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, Heimerdinger sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Annie. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Annie helps Heimerdinger perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Heimerdinger plays on the same team as Annie, he sees a little drop in his complete damage output. This may signal that Annie does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Heimerdinger is played 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 Heimerdinger plays with Annie on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Annie does a poor job of protecting Heimerdinger during team fights.
Synergies between Heimerdinger and Annie
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Is Heimerdinger better when played alongside Annie?
There is no ideal synergy for Heimerdinger that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. Yet, Annie is a terrible companion for Heimerdinger. By locking into the same side as Heimerdinger, she lowers their win rate by -3.7% to 45.9%. This signals that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Heimerdinger and Annie that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Annie has a lower difficulty than Heimerdinger. That means Heimerdinger players don't need to be very careful when finding Annie comrades to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by grouping Heimerdinger and Annie together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates very much attack damage. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Annie ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Heimerdinger in order to work well with Annie during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to build first in your Heimerdinger and Annie synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Heimerdinger used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Annie than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Heimerdinger had an average winrate of 45.9% when playing alongside Annie with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.9% win rate overall.
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