Annie·Top Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Annie Top build, you should take Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Electrocute as your keystone, followed by Cheap Shot, Grisly Mementos and Relentless Hunter in the primary tree, as well as Absolute Focus and Axiom Arcanist in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Adaptive Force in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Malignance as your first item, followed by Sorcerer's Shoes and Stormsurge. For your last 3 items, you should build Shadowflame, Rabadon's Deathcap and finish with Void Staff. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - W - E. Right now, this build has 58.9% winrate over 275 matches played.

Optional

Your second option for Annie Top build would be to take Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells. The runes that this build takes advantage of are Deathfire Touch as your keystone, Axiom Arcanist, Transcendence and Gathering Storm in the primary tree, and Conditioning with Overgrowth in the secondary tree. The shards used in this build are Adaptive Force in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense. The items for the build are Malignance, which you should build first, followed by Sorcerer's Shoes as your second item and Liandry's Torment as your third item. The rest of the items in order are Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Shadowflame and Rabadon's Deathcap. The skill order for this build is Q - W - E. In the current patch, this build has a 54.3% win rate over 70 matches.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Deathfire Touch as your keystone, Manaflow Band, Celerity and Scorch in the primary tree, and Legend: Haste with Cut Down in the secondary tree, as well as Adaptive Force, Adaptive Force, and Health as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Malignance as your first item, then Ionian Boots of Lucidity as a second item and Hextech Rocketbelt as a third item. You want to finish the build with Shadowflame, Rabadon's Deathcap and Zhonya's Hourglass. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - W - E. This build is currently sitting at a 55.9% win rate across 59 matches played.

Situational Annie Runes and Items

Depending on the context of your game, your matchup, and enemy champions, you might want to consider building some situational items or take specific runes. Carefully examine your team, enemy team, game state , and your matchup to plan your Annie build accordingly! For example, when it comes to rune shards, you might want to take either Armor or Magic Resist, depending on which champion you are about to lane against.