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 54.5% winrate over 543 matches played.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells, with runes being First Strike as your keystone, Cash Back, Triple Tonic and Cosmic Insight in the primary tree, and Manaflow Band with Scorch in the secondary tree, as well as Adaptive Force, Adaptive Force, and Health Scaling as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Malignance 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 Void Staff, Rabadon's Deathcap and Hextech Rocketbelt. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - W - E. This build is currently sitting at a 55.8% win rate across 197 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Annie Top build in the current patch, try Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells, Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Grisly Mementos and Relentless Hunter as your primary rune tree, and Absolute Focus with Axiom Arcanist as your secondary tree. Use Adaptive Force, Adaptive Force and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Hextech Rocketbelt as your first item, then finish Sorcerer's Shoes as your second item, and Malignance as third item. The last 3 options are Shadowflame, Rabadon's Deathcap and Liandry's Torment. The ability order for this build is Q - W - E. As of the current patch, this build has a 56.1% win rate over 98 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.