Talk:Annie/@comment-26001789-20150526065241/@comment-1973463-20150528080036

I don't buy RoA on her either (I'll get to why in a moment), but saying that her sustained damage is low is kind of wrong. Her sustained damage is extremely high with her ult and short cooldowns. And the shield feedback damage. And it's mostly AoE to boot. Only dedicated sustained damage mages like Cass and Karthus can beat her raw sustained damage.

If Irelia is hitting Annie's Molten Shield (instead of the, say, Darius next to her) while Tibbers sits on her, that's 40%+ AP dps. Sitting there autoing Annie with shield and bear up has you take roughly the same amount of damage as sitting there while Fiddlesticks channels Drain on you. And this is before Incinerate and Disintegrate. And Disintegrate especially has a very short cooldown for rather nice dps.

Anyway I still don't get RoA on her. But that's not because I don't like health. Health is amazing on her. I don't get RoA because I get Rylai's instead. The permaslow it gives her is kind of awesome. Land a stun on someone and they are never getting away, even if they flash (unless it's over a wall). It also helps her kite bruisers and helps you keep Tibbers in range to do damage. And the bear slows too. So you can run away from an entire team if no one is close enough to use a gap closer and the bear is trailing behind you, slowing them.