User blog comment:Willbachbakal/(Champion Rework) Annie, the Dark Child/@comment-4888212-20150728220507/@comment-4888212-20150729004920

what do you mean "land" all abilities?

E is an autoattack. Q is point and click W is AoE with very slight delay and you can just stun with Q/E beforehand and move tibbers there or conjour him during the stun. i dont see this being hard to pull off. im not even talking proscene here. you can just keep tibbers between the minions and the enemy and zone him because he will fear the 380-460 AP ratio hammer. and if he comes in he is dead, especially since tibbers runs faster than the enemy.

malzahar has delay on the silence and pool, and overall isnt a healthy laner either, so if you compare him to annie and notice annie is still stronger theres something wrong. 460% AP ratio basically means you deal 1k dmg with 200 AP.

and people who play annie a dozen times will be able to constantly pull that off. ive mastered harder stuff and im far from a pro. honestly, using 2 characters isnt micromanaging either. any RTS gamer does that with a blindfold on.

what i want to say is, a GOOD annie will be the strongest lanebully in the game. a bad annie will just suck terribly and build lichbane to improve her burst because she cant handle tibbers micromanagement.

but you always have to look at both and find a way how both can be healthy. the bad annie would be healthy, but the good annie player would just be devastating. the enemy might just leave the lane and go jungle, he gets more CS there.

you also forget that you can send annie top against melee laners as well as counterpick, nobody forced her to be mid only.

strategic diversity being the point here.