User blog comment:Willbachbakal/(Champion Rework) Annie, the Dark Child/@comment-1920550-20150728013356/@comment-1330314-20150728014657

That's true, Annie would lose the power to insta-stun enemies with this, which would significantly change the reasons to pick her. However, she'd still have the power to apply an AoE stun with her W, and I tried to compensate for the loss of her reliability with tons of additional power everywhere else, plus a bit more reliability on her E. Her CC contribution would definitely be a lot less stable, but at the same time I feel like she'd have a ton more things to do that would make her contribute well to her team.