Annie is a powerful AP ARAM pick that can complement any team composition. The distinguishing feature of this champion is her bear ultimate which can stun and damage multiple enemies at once. Annie is also really great at managing the waves, and she is quite decent at poking.
To utilize the full potential of this pick, today we are gonna explore her highest win rate ARAM build!
Best Annie ARAM Items
Malignance
One of the best first items for Annie in ARAM is the Malignance. The item is great on Annie for several reasons. For starters, it will give us a huge increase in early max mana, enabling us much greater ability sustain. The increased sustain will enable us to put much more pressure on the enemies, and it will increase our overall efficiency.
Another great thing about Malignance is it’s “hatefog” passive. Hatefog will burn the ground beneath the enemies affected by our ultimate. The burn will provide much greater damage to our ultimate, making it significantly deadlier.
Liandry’s Torment
Another key item for Annie is Liandry’s Torment. This item is distinguished by the percentage of HP burn provided by its passive. The burn will be applied to all our abilities, making them effective even versus the tankiest opponents. Aside from the great passive, Liandry will also buff us up on the HP side, making us slightly harder to take down.
Shadowflame
Our Annie build is pretty optimized to welcome another really great AP item, the Shadowflame. This item will increase our flat AP by a pretty significant margin, and it will also give us some magic penetration on the stats side of things. On top of everything, Shadowflame will cause our abilities to deal 20% more damage to enemies below 30% HP.
Rabadon’s Deathcap
To increase our AP ratios even further, the next item I would recommend would be Rabadon’s Deathcap. It will increase our total AP by +30%, which is extremely good considering the amount of AP we will have accumulated by far. The increase will also be layered with an additional 130+ flat AP from this item.
Void Staff
Void Staff is pretty much the go-to of every full AP build. It’s quite significant as it will increase our magic penetration by 40%. Such an increase coupled with all the AP we have accumulated with previous items + Rabbadon will cause us to deal extraordinarily high amounts of damage.
Boots
The only viable boots choice for our build would be the Sorcerer’s Shoes. They will give us a hint of magic penetration, the most desired stat for our build.
Runes for Annie ARAM
- Dark Harvest
- Cheap Shot
- Eyeball Collection
- Ultimate Hunter
- Transcendence
- Gathering the Storm
Final Thoughts
Annie is a really interesting AP ARAM pick. To achieve the greatest effectiveness with this champion, it is important to utilize our whole kit. In the beginning of the game, I would recommend using abilities to poke enemies and push waves.
Pushed waves will condition enemies to retreat under their tower, enabling us to poke them even further and stronger. When it comes to build, the most reasonable build would be the one outlined above.
A full AP build will enable us to excel at the things we need to do the most, such as pushing and poking. In the later stages of the game, a fully loaded build will enable us to easily one-shot our enemies and march our way towards nexus!