User blog comment:Willbachbakal/(Champion Rework) Annie, the Dark Child/@comment-5588011-20150729094313/@comment-1330314-20150731230241

That's true, I did remove a ton of reliability from Annie's kit. She does still maintain a degree of reliability, due to her ability to lay down point-and-click stuns, but she's currently far too reliable.

I also don't think the permanent uptime on her stun is a part of Annie's identity. It might be a significant reason why people play her competitively, if ever, but to me that just means she needs a different set of advantages to make her worth playing. I do think point-and-click hard CC would still be a significant reason to pick her, but she'd also be the only champion with constant access to what would essentially be a second champion, whose raw tankiness would be supplemented by her own hard-hitting spells.