Lucian with Annie
How to Synergize Lucian and Annie
based on 3,639 Lucian with Annie pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Lucian Annie Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Lucian and Annie
Tips for Playing as Lucian with Annie
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
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.
Lucian Annie Synergy Stats
How to Play with Annie as Lucian in LoL
The Lucian 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, Lucian sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Annie. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Annie helps Lucian perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Lucian plays on the same team as Annie, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This could indicate that Annie helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Lucian is played alongside 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.
Additionally, when Lucian plays with Annie on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Annie does a poor job of protecting Lucian during teamfights.
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Is Lucian better when played alongside Annie?
There is no perfect ally for Lucian that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Annie is a very typical ally for Lucian. By playing on the same side as Lucian, she increases their win rate by 0.6% to 49.4%. This demonstrates that there is only a small synergy between Lucian and Annie that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Annie has a lower difficulty than Lucian. That means Lucian players don't need to be cautious when finding Annie allies to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
When playing together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Lucian and Annie together, you will not be granting your other teammates much engage potential. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Annie teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Lucian to work well with Annie during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to focus on in your Lucian and Annie synergy build consist of Bloodthirster, Rapid Firecannon, and Kraken Slayer. When Lucian used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Annie than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Lucian had an average winrate of 49.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Annie with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Lucian and Annie pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Annie with Lucian are given for all ranked divisions combined. To scope the stats and builds to a distinct player tier, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.