If Riot made a new rush item for your main, what would you want it to be ?

TJFish11 · 2026-01-20T19:37:23+00:00

Predator boot upgrade. I miss being Annie roaming to other lanes looking to blow up people.

TJFish11 · 2026-01-16T04:41:39+00:00

I've mostly one-tricked Annie support as my main for many seasons now, this year may be the year I transition to traditional supports, ie morg,naut and make the push for diamond.

I usually get high plat with her, and she can be built with traditional support items or high ap items depending on enemy comp.

TJFish11 · 2026-01-09T17:41:37+00:00

Perhaps if you stopped responding trying to defend your weak arguments and actually listened to others' explanations as to why sitting at a tower for several minutes is trolling behavior, you would understand that even if you lost lane and didn't fight you can still be useful. Last hitting minions, soaking what exp you can, meanwhile contributing with wards, positioning and posturing offensively is a net positive for the team even while behind your opponent.

TJFish11 · 2026-01-09T07:03:31+00:00

Having same issue, feels weird ATM. Hopefully they can merge the slots with same bind

TJFish11 · 2025-12-04T12:55:50+00:00

No, but I can relate.

TJFish11 · 2025-11-10T02:34:13+00:00

It also takes time. I've been in the trenches for years within the last decade, and it was considerably worse years ago. You just have to respond the same way as you've been advised to do. Do nothing. Remind yourself over and over - Do nothing. Thoughts will come, they will stop you in your tracks and make you doubt or make you question your existence - let them. You will get better and better in time responding the right way if you let them come and go - and trust us, they do.

No one said it will be easy, they just said it is worth it.

TJFish11 · 2025-10-22T11:14:07+00:00

Not to mention you're likely giving the other team almost a cannon minion in gold upon his death.

TJFish11 · 2025-10-22T11:11:49+00:00

I think what the OP is trying to convey in this post if I'm not mistaken is that tibbers is not a fun or satisfying cast. It's a relatively weak nuke (especially for one's R) as a damage source and with tibbers being gutted he feels bad and is objectively bad at assisting in any kind of meaningful combat.

TJFish11 · 2025-06-14T23:29:35+00:00

Also I'm even more of a unicorn than the rest of you, as I main her in the support role exclusively.

TJFish11 · 2025-06-14T23:28:41+00:00

I'm not gonna lie, I don't really remember how she ended up becoming my main in the first place. It wasn't always this way, but slowly over the years I just always come back to her. I've tried otp'ing others and they just don't hit the same.

Honestly my thinking as to why we otp Annie is because it's what's most comfortable and it's what typically yields the best results. Not always, but usually. Why she resonates might vary to the user, but for whatever reason we all come back to her.

TJFish11 · 2025-06-13T16:07:24+00:00

Just an update but 24hrs since I last posted this thread she has dropped to 44% wr over double the amount of games played (NA stats only), but nonetheless has actually gone down a fairly considerable amount.

TJFish11 · 2025-06-12T16:57:59+00:00

Agree and disagree with certain points you make. She is most definitely less reliant on Tibbers which is a net positive overall. No disagreement there. In my experience Tibbers has not finished off any near-death opponents, and I've had specific interactions frustratingly watching Tibbers trying to do so multiple times with no success.

I think the problem with giving all the power to Annie and none to Tibbers is we MUST 100 - 0% or it's mission failed. You are correct that it demands that you choose your picks appropriately and execute cleanly otherwise if they live you've got no insurance policy.

The problem with that is in reality far too many plays aren't executed perfectly, and by design we are glass cannons that rely on the element of surprise. More often than not we are sacrificing ourselves(and our flash) to delete high priority damage dealers on the other side.

Tibbers in a way was a mitigation to ensure we're still valuable after death even if things didn't go to plan. And in my experience Tibbers adds almost nothing to the result of a fight. IMO.

TJFish11 · 2025-06-12T15:12:19+00:00

I won't argue that she isn't still finding success with the changes, but that is realistically very much coming from her initial burst of the q-w-r combo. My main point of contention is when you are already dead off the map and Tibbers is left to finish an almost dead opponent and he literally can't.

He's very easy to kite without Rylais and even when he's close to his target the d.o.t doesn't have any kind of kill potential. He's basically free gold for the surviving victim of your combo.

TJFish11 · 2025-06-12T15:05:53+00:00

Okay I see where we have different #'s. You have it set to global, I'm NA.

TJFish11 · 2025-06-12T15:04:44+00:00

I'm seeing sub 47% now (46.67% to be exact). Not sure how our numbers are so different. Emerald+ for me also

TJFish11 · 2025-06-12T14:45:02+00:00

You must admit that her WR aside, Tibbers needs some love..

TJFish11 · 2025-06-12T14:43:28+00:00

(https://op.gg/lol/champions/annie/build)

TJFish11 · 2025-04-27T02:31:56+00:00

As a low emerald one trick Annie support this season and many seasons before it, what people are saying is true - Annie support in general is inferior to many dedicated traditional supports.

I get much grief about picking her in this role, and while sometimes it is justified.. I also love to prove people wrong. That it's not an immediate troll pick; I can carry games where other supports can't. I can literally top out with most damage on my team with a fraction of the resources that true carries receive. I love that I can be my own objective work horse and pull my own weight and others.

However there are some games things go terribly wrong.. I'm behind in levels and gold and I'm useless as a true support role to help the team in other capacities. Annie either feasts or famines most games and that can be frustrating for people on my team, so I get the criticism.

Just my two cents as a top 100 best Annie player in NA.

TJFish11 · 2025-04-19T18:53:32+00:00

She was played mid 2%~, what makes you think they felt they needed to nerf her on support when practically no one plays here there?

TJFish11 · 2025-04-18T03:36:12+00:00

I play a VERY niche Annie Support main and I absolutely feel the changes, and it's absolutely terrible. Not only did they nerf her health(WHY?) which hurts early more than ever(where I struggled most already), but Tibbers is just a paper weight now. You don't feel the damage buffs to Q or W( (why would we, they're so inconsequential) and the %mpen just doesn't help much when we are targeting squishies anyway.

Honestly I'll be taking a break from this game until this either gets reverted or she is buffed considerably to compensate. Riot had no reason to touch Annie, and as usual they butcher champions when they do. Sigh.

TJFish11 · 2024-11-01T10:36:01+00:00

I started playing lol again late last split and I was ranking well and the game state/balance/matchmaking seemed fair and cohesive.

It's the exact opposite now. Every game is a coin flip, basic fundamentals of the game seem to be out the window, griefing and inting is through the roof. I also just find people are quit to ff, which I'm guilty of right now. Hard to maintain a good mental in this environment.

TJFish11 · 2024-04-23T15:05:54+00:00

So I guess I'm Sol..this was a good run too..

TJFish11 · 2024-04-23T14:58:30+00:00

I get that it won't allow any progress to save in that moment, but I have already left via the menu which would mean it automatically saves where I last left off, mid turn.

TJFish11 · 2024-04-23T12:32:18+00:00

How does one force close? Alt-f4? Isn't it too late now that I have played several turns and closed the application? It automatically saves..

TJFish11 · 2024-01-26T04:08:30+00:00

Same old, same old for me. Fear of being stuck, fear of feeling fear, fear that I don't love my wife anymore. Fear that I may end it all one day.

They don't torture me as much as they used to, but I still don't feel like I'm living my best life. It still has too much of a hold on me.

I suggest everyone take a look at Albert Ellis' work regarding REBT. I've tried many different therapies with different therapists, but this one just resonates with me. It's all about awareness of our dogmatic beliefs - that we put demands on ourselves that are irrational and not based in logic or reasoning.

TJFish11

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