>>534759934
As an Annie player, I would say that she isn't awful right now, but she might be one of the harder midlaners to make work in an elo past the braindead stage. her range is lacking, making her lose lane passively versus any artillery mage, and her damage is lacking just enough to lose to real assassins and burst champions. and any champion with repeated movement is a free loss. her strength is not in her lane, but her ability to sit strong side and make pressure for objectives. with teamwork, annie is very powerful. she just doesn't get any favors from her kit or any of the recent changes. her getting percent pen to make it "viable to hit tanks" in trade for nearly all of tibber's utility damage is fucking tragic, and she's been made one of the squishiest champs in her archetype despite her needing to get within 600 units of a fight. tibbers doesn't even do that much damage on launch either- it's equivalent damage to Q on summon up until rank 3.

play annie