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 Zhonya's Hourglass. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - W - E. Right now, this build has 53.0% winrate over 532 matches played.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Deathfire Touch as your keystone, Manaflow Band, Celerity and Scorch in the primary tree, and Cut Down with Legend: Haste in the secondary tree, as well as Attack Speed, Move Speed, and Health as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Blackfire Torch as your first item, then Sorcerer's Shoes as a second item and Liandry's Torment as a third item. You want to finish the build with Shadowflame, Rabadon's Deathcap and Rylai's Crystal Scepter. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - W - E. This build is currently sitting at a 56.6% win rate across 76 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Annie Top build in the current patch, try Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery and Cosmic Insight as your primary rune tree, and Transcendence with Gathering Storm as your secondary tree. Use Ability Haste, Move Speed and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Malignance as your first item, then finish Sorcerer's Shoes as your second item, and Archangel's Staff as third item. The last 3 options are Rabadon's Deathcap, Actualizer and Cryptbloom. The ability order for this build is Q - W - E. As of the current patch, this build has a 60.7% win rate over 56 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.