Annie
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Excellent (8/10)
Epic Relics
Rare Relics OK
Annie is a highly flexible champion capable of executing aggressive burn strategies, methodical control gameplans, and massive skill-chain combos. While her baseline kit struggles against the inflated health pools of top-tier encounters, her 6-star upgrade transforms her into a premier damage dealer, though stack limit mechanics require careful management.
C6 Destiny Control
Game Start: Create a 1 cost Wild Card in your deck for every 7 cards in your deck.
Game Start: Grant a random spell from your deck an item with "-1 cost and draw 1". Create 4 copies of it in your deck.
Power: Game Start: Shuffle 3 Tibbers into your deck. Your Tibbers cost 2 less and have +5|+5.
Strategy
Optimized for her 6-star upgrade, this build leverages Deck of Destiny to generate Wild Cards, which count as skills and are duplicated by her constellation power. This creates massive board-wiping potential and card advantage.
Searing Brilliance provides crucial card draw and discounts, ensuring you can continuously cycle through your deck. Emotional Support Bear ensures a massive 10/10 Tibbers can be deployed for early board stabilization and fast level-ups.
C6 First Turn Kill Aggro
Power: When an ally that costs 1 or less attacks, deal 1 to the enemy Nexus.
When I level up, Rally.
When I level up, Stun all enemies.
Strategy
This aggressive setup is designed to end encounters on the first turn. By attacking with Annie and a 1-cost unit, Shock and Awe rapidly fills the stack with skills, which are then doubled by her 6-star power.
This sequence levels Annie up mid-combat, triggering Tempest Blade to stun the enemy board and Crownguard Inheritance to rally. The resulting sequence bypasses blockers and delivers overwhelming direct Nexus damage.
Disintegrate Engine
Game Start: Create 7 copies of me in deck. Champion Spells cost 1 less.
Round Start: Create a Fleeting copy of me in hand.
Allies have Challenger.
Strategy
This control-oriented approach focuses on abusing Annie's champion spell and is highly effective at 2 or 3 stars. Echoing Spirit reduces the cost of the fleeting Disintegrate generated by The Grand General's Counterplan to zero, while also adding a card draw effect at champion level 27.
Laurent Bladerack allows allies to challenge and eliminate the disintegrated targets, ensuring consistent removal of large enemy threats and maintaining complete board control.
Relentless Burn (Speedrun)
All of your spells and skills deal 1 extra damage.
When I'm summoned, create 2 Warning Shots in hand.- When I'm summoned, create 2 Warning Shots in hand.
Strategy
This build focuses on relentless burn damage by using double Dreadway Chase Guns to generate four Warning Shots upon summon. Luden's Tempest amplifies the damage of these shots and Annie's inherent skills.
This setup is exceptionally fast for clearing low-star adventures and monthly challenges, allowing you to burst down the enemy Nexus before they can establish a board.
Guardian Oath Cheese
Play: Shuffle 5 level 2 champions into your deck and double their stats, then draw one of them.
Allied champions have +1|+1 and cost 2 less.- Allied champions have +1|+1 and cost 2 less.
Strategy
A highly effective strategy for accounts without her 6-star upgrade facing difficult content. Because Annie only costs 1 mana, she can immediately flood the board with heavily discounted, oversized champions.
This bypasses her native scaling issues in high-difficulty encounters and provides an easy win condition against bosses with massive health pools.
Zoe & Poro King Summon Loop
Zoe Specialized
Start adventures with +1 Revive. Last Breath: If it's the first time I've been slain this game, revive me with 1 Health.
When I'm summoned, deal 1 to all enemies.- When I'm summoned, create 2 Warning Shots in hand.
Strategy
This build focuses on immediate board clear and Nexus damage upon champion summon, specifically tailored for the 10-star Zoe adventure. Leverage Annie's low cost and Guardian Angel to repeatedly trigger her summon effects.
Utilize damage spells like Noxian Fervor or Disintegrate to control Annie's health, allowing her to die to lower-damage sources and trigger Guardian Angel's revive more consistently.
Zoe Twin Drakehounds
Zoe Specialized
- Game Start: Create 7 copies of me in deck. Champion Spells cost 1 less.
Overwhelm Attack: Deal 2 to the enemy Nexus. If I've already attacked this round, deal 2 to all enemies as well.
Scout. Round End: Shuffle me into your deck.
Strategy
Designed to counter the wide boards and Poros in the 10-star Zoe adventure. Twin Drakehounds deals immediate Nexus and board damage on attack, bypassing enemy blocks.
Galeforce allows for multiple attacks to trigger the board-wide damage effect, while Echoing Spirit provides free Disintegrates to maintain absolute control over the enemy's strongest units.
Other Relic Options
When I'm summoned or Attack: Deal 1 to all enemies.
Your Nexus has Tough.
Power: Your elemental spells and Skills deal 2 extra damage.
Whirling Blade provides excellent AoE damage on summon and attack, synergizing perfectly with her skill-based kit. Turret Plating is an essential tech choice for surviving aggressive encounters like the Swain adventure. Icon of Valhir is a solid alternative for elemental damage but is often outclassed by Deck of Destiny or Shock and Awe at higher star levels.
Constellation
Annie's constellation upgrades significantly accelerate her gameplan, shifting her from a standard aggressive champion to a dominant combo piece. However, her early nodes scale poorly against the highest difficulty tiers, and her reliance on the spell stack can lead to mechanical bottlenecks.
Pyromania
Your spells and skills deal 1 extra damage.
Playful Trick
+1 Starting Mana. Round Start: Create a Fleeting Guile in hand.Review
Creates a Guile. This slow-speed stun is considered sluggish and can disrupt her aggressive pacing, though it provides necessary defensive utility.
Pyromania II
Your spells and skills deal 2 extra damage.Review
Grants +2 damage to skills and spells. While effective in lower-difficulty adventures, this fixed damage increase scales poorly against the inflated health pools found in Nightmare encounters.
Raiding Party
When you damage the enemy Nexus, grant the top ally in your deck +1|+1.Review
Raiding Party. Grants +1|+1 to the top ally in deck when damaging the enemy Nexus. This power is widely considered underwhelming and lacks synergy with her primary spell-damage focus.
Manaflow
Game Start: Get a mana gem.Review
Manaflow. Provides a crucial extra mana gem, enabling powerful Turn 1 plays (like Annie plus a 1-drop) or a Turn 2 Tibbers deployment.
Dark Child
Allied Skills activate an additional time.Review
Dark Child. Doubles allied skills. This is a massive power spike that transforms her into a premier damage dealer and board clearer. However, players must carefully manage the game's 9-skill stack limit, as generating too many skills simultaneously will cause excess skills to be deleted without resolving.
Gameplay Tips
- Managing the Spell Stack
When utilizing builds that generate numerous skills (especially at 6 stars with Shock and Awe), carefully sequence your spells before declaring an attack. The game has a hard limit on the stack (9 skills), and overfilling it will cause your crucial damage or stun skills to be deleted without resolving.
- Bypassing Cheat-Death Mechanics
Annie's champion spell, Disintegrate, is an exceptional tool for handling enemies with revive mechanics like Tryndamere. Target a weak unit first to exhaust the passive revive, then use Disintegrate to permanently remove the primary threat.
- Early Tibbers Deployment
If equipped with her signature relic, Emotional Support Bear, Tibbers becomes a 2-cost unit within her deck. Prioritize drawing and playing him on the first or second turn to establish an impenetrable defensive wall and accelerate Annie's level-up condition.
- Sacrificial Aggression
Do not be afraid to let Annie die in combat if you have The Grand General's Counterplan or Guardian Angel equipped. Sacrificing her allows you to replay her or revive her, re-triggering powerful summon effects like Dreadway Chase Gun to maintain continuous burn damage.
- Disintegrate Timing
When using Annie's champion spell, ensure it is cast before declaring an attack to guarantee skill damage resolves prior to unit combat. Simultaneously playing the spell with an attack will prioritize unit damage, potentially leading to Annie's premature defeat.