Annie

Recommended Build

Patch 16.11 · Diamond+ Solo Queue · Updated 6/9/2026

52.1% Based on 409 games wr in Mid

Build path

1. Boots any step
   

   Sorcerer's Shoes

   1100 gold

   12 Magic Penetration
   45 Move Speed
   
   

   Sorcerer's Shoes

   46% pick · 51.6% Based on 182 picks wr
2. Item 1
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     Doran's Ring

     400 gold

     18 Ability Power
     90 Health
     
     Drain
     Restore 1 Mana every second, increased to 2 Mana per second for 5 seconds after dealing damage to an enemy champion. If you can't gain Mana, heal for 45% of this value instead.
     
     Helping Hand
     Attacks deal 5 bonus physical damage to minions.
     Doran's Ring

     100% pick · 52.1% Based on 409 picks wr
3. Item 2 2 options
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     Malignance

     2700 gold

     90 Ability Power
     600 Mana
     15 Ability Haste
     
     Scorn
     Gain 20 Ultimate Ability Haste.
     
     Hatefog
     Damaging a champion with your Ultimate burns the ground beneath them for 3s, dealing magic damage per second and reducing their Magic Resist.
     
     Malignance

     63% pick · 55.2% Based on 252 picks wr
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     Hextech Rocketbelt

     2650 gold

     70 Ability Power
     300 Health
     20 Ability Haste
     
     Supersonic
     Dash in target direction, unleashing missiles that deal magic damage.
     or Hextech Rocketbelt

     26% pick · 47.6% Based on 103 picks wr
4. Item 3 2 options
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     Hextech Rocketbelt

     2650 gold

     70 Ability Power
     300 Health
     20 Ability Haste
     
     Supersonic
     Dash in target direction, unleashing missiles that deal magic damage.
     Hextech Rocketbelt

     48% pick · 55.2% Based on 172 picks wr
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     Malignance

     2700 gold

     90 Ability Power
     600 Mana
     15 Ability Haste
     
     Scorn
     Gain 20 Ultimate Ability Haste.
     
     Hatefog
     Damaging a champion with your Ultimate burns the ground beneath them for 3s, dealing magic damage per second and reducing their Magic Resist.
     
     or Malignance

     21% pick · 46.7% Based on 75 picks wr
5. Item 4 3 options
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     Shadowflame

     3200 gold

     110 Ability Power
     15 Magic Penetration
     
     Cinderbloom
     Magic and true damage Critically Strike enemies below 40% Health, dealing 20% increased damage.
     Shadowflame

     26% pick · 56.7% Based on 60 picks wr
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     Rabadon's Deathcap

     3500 gold

     130 Ability Power
     
     Magical Opus
     Increases your total Ability Power by 30%.
     or Rabadon's Deathcap

     15% pick · 64.7% Based on 34 picks wr
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     Void Staff

     3000 gold

     95 Ability Power
     40% Magic Penetration
     
     
     or Void Staff

     13% pick · 41.4% Based on 29 picks wr

Most-built legendary at each step (purchase order).

Summoner spells

Flash

Teleports you a short distance toward your cursor.

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Ignite

Deals true damage over time to target enemy champion and reduces healing effects on them for the duration.

Ignite 50% · 50.0% Based on 204 picks wr

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Q Disintegrate

Annie hurls a Mana infused fireball, dealing damage and refunding the Mana cost if it destroys the target.

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W Incinerate

Annie casts a blazing cone of fire, dealing damage to all enemies in the area.

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E Molten Shield

Grants Annie or an ally a shield, a burst of Move Speed, and damages enemies who strike her with attacks or spells.

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R Summon: Tibbers

Annie wills her bear Tibbers to life, dealing damage to units in the area. Tibbers can attack and also burns enemies that stand near him.

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Domination

Electrocute · selected

Hitting a champion with 3 separate attacks or abilities in 3s deals bonus adaptive damage.

Dark Harvest

Damaging a low health champion inflicts adaptive damage and harvests a soul from the victim.

Hail of Blades

Gain a large amount of Attack Speed and bonus true damage for the first 3 attacks made against enemy champions.

Cheap Shot · selected

Deal bonus true damage to enemy champions with impaired movement or actions.

Taste of Blood

Heal when you damage an enemy champion.

Sudden Impact

Damaging basic attacks and abilities deal bonus true damage to enemy champions after using a dash, leap, blink, teleport, or when leaving stealth.

Sixth Sense

On a long Cooldown, automatically sense a nearby untracked and unseen ward, tracking it for the team.

Level 11: Also reveal the ward for 10s.

Grisly Mementos · selected

Collect 1 memento on champion takedowns, up to 18 total.

Gain 6 Trinket Haste for each collected.

Deep Ward

Your wards in the enemy jungle are Deep, gaining Health and Duration.

Level 9: Wards in the river are also Deep.

Treasure Hunter

Unique takedowns grant additional gold the first time they are collected.

Relentless Hunter · selected

Unique takedowns grant permanent out of combat MS.

Ultimate Hunter

Unique takedowns grant permanent cooldown reduction on your Ultimate.

Sorcery

Axiom Arcanist · selected

Your Ultimate has increased damage, healing, and shielding. Scoring a takedown on an enemy champion reduces your Ultimate's current cooldown.

Manaflow Band

Hitting an enemy champion with an ability permanently increases your maximum mana by 25, up to 250 mana.

After reaching 250 bonus mana, restore 1% of your missing mana every 5 seconds.

Nimbus Cloak

After casting a Summoner Spell, gain a short Move Speed increase that allows you to pass through units.

Transcendence

Gain bonuses upon reaching the following levels:
Level 5: +5 Ability Haste
Level 8: +5 Ability Haste
Level 11: On Champion takedown, reduce the remaining cooldown of basic abilities by 20%.

Celerity

All Move Speed bonuses are 7% more effective on you and gain 1% Move Speed.

Absolute Focus · selected

While above 70% health, gain extra adaptive damage.

Scorch

Your first damaging ability hit every 10s burns champions.

Waterwalking

Gain MS and AP or AD, adaptive in the river.

Gathering Storm

Gain increasing amounts of AD or AP, adaptive over the course of the game.

Stat shards

Adaptive Force · selected

+9 Adaptive Force (AD or AP — whichever helps more).

Attack Speed

+10% Attack Speed.

Ability Haste

+8 Ability Haste.

Adaptive Force · selected

+9 Adaptive Force (AD or AP — whichever helps more).

Move Speed

+2% Move Speed.

Bonus Health

+10–180 Bonus Health (based on level).

Health

+65 flat Health.

Tenacity & Slow Resist

+10% Tenacity and Slow Resist.

Bonus Health · selected

+10–180 Bonus Health (based on level).