Talk:Annie/@comment-24496127-20160803020815/@comment-26203093-20160804154023

Let's just compare her to another burst mage. Veigar's Q is a skill shot now, so it's dodgeable. Antimatter drop is an activation time more than long enough to avoid. His E has a setup period. And his ult requires that half the work already be done so flash ulting is always conditional and something both parties are aware of.

Veigar flash engaging has no benefit to it because of the setup period. And both parties duck and weave and feel around for an opportunity. With annie, the best you can do, is know the size of tibber's ult, and try not to stand directly next to each other, which means you're fucking up your own chance at engagements. And the point about annie wasting her stun on the frontline - no, a good annie doesn't. Any good engager doesn't. Their value is based on how many targets they can lock down at once, and even if the front line just charges right in, they're not suddenly a larger threat than the 4 other combined behind them.

It means Annie does all the decision making outside of people figuring out whether or not to risk staying close for the sake of a succesful engage or stay apart to counter annie.