Lucian with Annie
How to Synergize Lucian and Annie
based on 3,842 Lucian with Annie pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Lucian Annie Synergy Summary
Best Lucian Annie Synergy Build
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Guide to Synergizing Lucian and Annie
Tips for Playing as Lucian with Annie
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Annie. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Annie helps Lucian perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Lucian plays on the same team as Annie, he observes a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Annie provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Lucian is played with Annie on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Annie. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Annie.
Moreover, when Lucian plays with Annie on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Annie does a decent job of covering Lucian in teamfights.
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Is Lucian better when played alongside Annie?
There is no top ally for Lucian that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, Annie is a pretty good companion for Lucian. By being on the same side as Lucian, she increases their win rate by 1.8% to 50.4%. This shows that there is pretty good synergy between Lucian and Annie that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Annie has a lower difficulty than Lucian. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Annie comrades to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to do well with you.
Playing together, Lucian players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Lucian and Annie together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates much engage potential. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Annie ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Lucian in order to work well with Annie during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to include in your Lucian and Annie synergy build include Navori Quickblades, Essence Reaver, and Kraken Slayer. When Lucian incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Annie than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Lucian had an average winrate of 50.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Annie with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Lucian and Annie pairings, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.4% win rate overall.
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