Support Annie Build

Support Annie Build.

Support Annie build with runes and items. Support Annie guide offers in-depth how-to play, skill order and tips. Play Support Annie build in League of Legends Patch 26.2!

Author: Wrekah

TLDR

Starting items
Bandleglass Mirror should be final item in your build.
Tear of the Goddess should be final item in your build.
Quick Skill Order
Annie ability Molten Shield should be leveled first.
E
Annie ability Disintegrate should be leveled second.
Q
Annie ability Incinerate should be leveled third.
W
Final items
Ionian Boots of Lucidity should be final item in your build.
Moonstone Renewer should be final item in your build.
Redemption should be final item in your build.
Staff of Flowing Water should be final item in your build.
Diadem of Songs should be final item in your build.
Dawncore should be final item in your build.
Quick Runes
Major rune Summon Aery from Sorcery tree.
Minor rune Resolve.
Summoner spells
Pick Exhaust as your Summoner Spell.
Pick Flash as your Summoner Spell.

Support Annie Runes

Sorcery
Sorcery major tree Summon Aery rune.
Sorcery major tree Arcane Comet rune.
Sorcery major tree Phase Rush rune.
Sorcery major tree Axiom Arcanist rune.
Sorcery major tree Manaflow Band rune.
Sorcery major tree Nimbus Cloak rune.
Sorcery major tree Transcendence rune.
Sorcery major tree Celerity rune.
Sorcery major tree Absolute Focus rune.
Sorcery major tree Scorch rune.
Sorcery major tree Waterwalking rune.
Sorcery major tree Gathering Storm rune.
Resolve
Resolve minor tree Demolish rune.
Resolve minor tree Font of Life rune.
Resolve minor tree Shield Bash rune.
Resolve minor tree Conditioning rune.
Resolve minor tree Second Wind rune.
Resolve minor tree Bone Plating rune.
Resolve minor tree Overgrowth rune.
Resolve minor tree Revitalize rune.
Resolve minor tree Unflinching rune.
Passive
Passive tree Adaptive Force rune (+9 Adaptive Force).
Passive tree Attack Speed rune (+10% Attack Speed).
Passive tree Ability Haste rune (+8 Ability Haste).
Passive tree Adaptive Force rune (+9 Adaptive Force).
Passive tree Move Speed rune (+2 Movement Speed).
Passive tree Health Scaling rune (+10-180 Health (based on level)).
Passive tree Health rune (+65 Health).
Passive tree Tenacity And Slow Resist rune (+10 Tenacity and Slow Resist).
Passive tree Health Scaling rune (+10-180 Health (based on level)).

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How it works

General

  1. You support your team by providing healing, shielding and various buffs.
  2. You rush Moonstone Renewer.
  3. You can peel from your carries with Exhaust.

Playstyle

  1. Play safe and focus on supporting your allies. 🛡️
  2. Heal, shield, and buff. ✨
  3. Position behind your frontline. ⏳

How to play

Support Annie

  1. You will heal your allies with Font of Life rune. Getting Rylai's Crystal Scepter will make your Tibbers healer as well (AoE aura)!
  2. Mid-late game, your Molten Shield (E) will have about 4 sec cooldown. Spam it.
  3. Early on, this build struggles with mana. Stack Tears (Disintegrate (Q) on minions). After one item and stacked Tear, you will be fine!

General

Starter items

  1. Start with Tear of the Goddess and Bandleglass Mirror. Rush Moonstone first, then get Diadem of Songs second. Then adapt.
  2. Keep stacking your Tear! The sooner you get it, the sooner you can start healing your team and providing additional sustain.

Adaptation

  1. Your team needs to engage or position? Get items like Shurelya's Battlesong or Trailblazer.
  2. Your team getting poked to death? Consider getting Redemption AND/OR Locket of the Iron Solari next.
  3. If you are just getting poked and cannot manage to stay alive - get Kaenic Rookern or Warmog's Armor (caution: needs enough HP!)
  4. You have tanks, bruisers and your team lack damage? As a last resort, you can buy few items to even help with that!

Countering

  1. Remember to counter an enemy team. For example, if they have lots of healing, get Oblivion Orb early.

Buffing your team

  1. If your team has a lot of AP scaling champs, you can get Staff of the Flowing Water.
  2. If your team has a lot of auto attackers AND/OR melee champs, get Ardent Censer.
  3. If your team has a lot of auto attacks, you can also get Bandlepipes to increase their attack speed.

Tips and Tricks

Champion

  1. Keep track of the stacks of your Pyromania (Passive)!
  2. Disintegrate (Q) has travel time, Incinerate (W) is as instant cast, and Summon: Tibbers (R) is a targeted ability. It means that instant stun that they cannot dodge or site step is W.
  3. If you are not sure if you will land Tibbers, use Q first to stun them, then use R.
  4. If you hit somebody with Mark (Snowball) and you go in, it is very telegraphed action. Opponents will expect you to use Tibbers right off. So they will use Flash as soon as you get to them. In such cases, it is better to stun them with Q or W. Followed by Tibbers to destroy them, while they are stunned.
  5. Preparing to engage? Stack your Pyromania (Passive) with Incinerate (W) and Molten Shield (E).
  6. If you want to catch somebody off guard or have better engage, use Molten Shield (E) on yourself for Movement Speed buff beforehand.
  7. Annie combo #1: you can stun somebody with Disintegrate (Q) with 3 stacks! It has travel time, so during that you can use W or E to get full stacks and Q will still stun them.
  8. Do not be shy and do not wait for 'special moment'. You have good engaging and catching tool - AoE stun with R. Paired with movement speed buff from E + Flash it is a certain AoE stun and often won fight.

Riot

  1. Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
  2. Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
  3. 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.

Skill Order

  • Annie [object Object] ability.
    Q
    Disintegrate
  • Annie [object Object] ability.
    W
    Incinerate
  • Annie [object Object] ability.
    E
    Molten Shield
  • Annie [object Object] ability.
    R
    Summon: Tibbers

Items

Starting items
Bandleglass Mirror item.
Tear of the Goddess item.
Boots
Ionian Boots of Lucidity item.
Rush this
Moonstone Renewer item.
Diadem of Songs item.
Good support items
Staff of Flowing Water item.
Dawncore item.
Echoes of Helia item.
Buffing your team
Ardent Censer item.
Bandlepipes item.
Staff of Flowing Water item.
Counter poke
Locket of the Iron Solari item.
Banshee's Veil item.
Warmog's Armor item.
Redemption item.
Kaenic Rookern item.
For engage
Shurelya's Battlesong item.
Trailblazer item.
Situational items
Additional considerations for these items is advised!
Knight's Vow item.
Rylai's Crystal Scepter item.
Mikael's Blessing item.
Counter healing
Oblivion Orb item.
Morellonomicon item.
Situational dmg items
Liandry's Torment item.
Rod of Ages item.
Rabadon's Deathcap item.
Cosmic Drive item.
Imperial Mandate item.
Cryptbloom item.
For survivability
Frozen Heart item.
Spirit Visage item.
Zhonya's Hourglass item.
Kaenic Rookern item.
Banshee's Veil item.
For the last fight
Additional considerations for these items is advised!
Elixir of Sorcery item.
Seeker's Armguard item.
Elixir of Iron item.
Example final build
Ionian Boots of Lucidity item.
Moonstone Renewer item.
Redemption item.
Staff of Flowing Water item.
Diadem of Songs item.
Dawncore item.