Talk:VPBE/@comment-24385282-20160202032315/@comment-3974211-20160202162221

Annie is intended to be easy to pick up for new players without being someone who falls off as you level up - and, to be honest, she's perfect for that.

There's lots they could do to make her more "interesting", but it'd be hard to keep her entry-level. A lot of people have asked for Tibbers to be more involved - but Riot doesn't feel like people pick up Annie to be a minion-mancer; they pick her up to be "a fire starter", who just happens to have a teddy bear because she's an adorable 9 year old. If they can find ways to make Tibbers more interesting without taking anything away - they will (as they did with the E change), but they have no interest in making Annie+Tibbers more of a duo/pet champion.

And while they agree her E is boring - they feel there's not really any room in her budget to make it more interesting, not without taking away power elsewhere.