The Dark Child

Previous Lore

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"I never play with matches." - Annie

There have always been those within Noxus who did not agree with the evils perpetrated by the Noxian High Command. The High Command had just put down a coup attempt from the self-proclaimed Crown Prince Raschallion, and a crackdown on any form of dissent against the new government was underway. These political and social outcasts, known as the Gray Order, sought to leave their neighbors in peace as they pursued dark arcane knowledge.

The leaders of this outcast society were a married couple: Gregori Hastur, the Gray Warlock, and his wife Amoline, the Shadow Witch. Together they led an exodus of magicians and other intelligentsia from Noxus, resettling their followers beyond the Great Barrier to the northern reaches of the unforgiving Voodoo Lands. Though survival was a challenge at times, the Gray Order's colony managed to thrive in a land where so many others would have failed.

Years after the exodus, Gregori and Amoline had a child: Annie. Early on, Annie's parents knew there was something special about their daughter. At the age of two, Annie miraculously ensorcelled a shadow bear - a ferocious denizen of the petrified forests outside the colony - turning it into her pet. To this day she keeps her bear 'Tibbers' by her side, often keeping him spellbound as a stuffed doll to be carried like a child's toy. The combination of Annie's lineage and the dark magic of her birthplace have given this little girl tremendous arcane power.

" Annie may be one of the most powerful champions ever to have fought in a Field of Justice. I shudder to think of her capabilities when she becomes an adult." - High Councilor Kiersta Mandrake

In the time shortly before the League, there were those within the sinister city-state of Noxus who did not agree with the evils perpetrated by the Noxian High Command. The High Command had just put down a coup attempt from the self-proclaimed Crown Prince Raschallion, and a crackdown on any form of dissent against the new government was underway.

These political and social outcasts, known as the Grey Order, sought to leave their neighbors in peace as they pursued dark arcane knowledge. The leaders of this outcast society were a married couple: Gregori Hastur, the Grey Warlock, and his wife Amoline, the Shadow Witch.

Together they led an exodus of magicians and other intelligentsia from Noxus, resettling their followers beyond the Great Barrier to the northern reaches of the unforgiving Voodoo Lands. Though survival was a challenge at times, the Grey Order's colony managed to thrive in a land where so many others would have failed.

Years after the exodus, Gregori and Amoline had a child: Annie. Early on, Annie's parents knew there was something special about their daughter. At the age of two, Annie miraculously ensorcelled a shadow bear - a ferocious denizen of the petrified forests outside the colony - turning it into her pet. To this day she keeps her bear Tibbers by her side, often keeping him spellbound as a stuffed doll to be carried like a child's toy.

The combination of Annie's lineage and the dark magic of her birthplace have given this little girl tremendous arcane power. It is this same girl who now finds herself as one of the most sought-after champions within the League of Legends - even by the city-state who would have exiled her parents had they not fled beforehand.

Previous Abilities

Affinity

Kindle

Ghastly Shield Upon activation, Annie's ghostly guardians corporealize, protecting her from harm.

1st Pyromania (I)

1st Incinerate (Q)

1st Disintegrate (W)

1st Molten Shield (E)

Infernal Guardian (1st R)

1st Tibbers

Previous Splash Art

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1st Classic Annie

2nd Classic Annie

1st Goth Annie

2nd Goth Annie

1st Red Riding Annie

1st Annie in Wonderland

1st Prom Queen Annie

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1st Frostfire Annie

2nd Frostfire Annie

Classic Skin

Goth Annie

Red Riding Annie

Annie in Wonderland

Prom Queen Annie

Frostfire Annie

FrankenTibbers Annie

Reverse Annie

Patch History

V7.22

• Stats
  • Base health increased to 524 from 511.68.
  • Health growth increased to 88 from 76.

V7.15

• Red Riding Annie and Sweetheart Annie
  • Summon Tibbers
    • Bug Fix: Now use appropriate fire SFX when spawned.

V7.9 May 4th Hotfix

• General
  • New Effect: Attack animations have received non-gameplay impacting adjustments.

V7.9

• Stats
  • Magic resistance growth increased to 0.5 from 0.

V6.17

• Summon Tibbers
  • Tibbers' bonus movement and attack speed after Annie's death decays 20% faster.

V6.16

• Summon Tibbers
  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where Tibbers would repeatedly cancel his bear slaps when you ordered him to attack a unit he was already attacking.

V6.15

• Incinerate
  • Bug Fix: Now properly stun (but don't damage) invulnerable targets when proccing Pyromania.
• Summon Tibbers
  • Bug Fix: Now properly stun (but don't damage) invulnerable targets when proccing Pyromania.

V6.14

• Summon Tibbers
  • If Tibbers' target enters Fog of War, Tibbers now continues pathing to the target's last known location, rather than stopping in his tracks.
  • Tibbers no longer forgets how to attack his target if crowd controlled.
  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where Tibbers couldn't be ordered to attack Inhibitors or the Nexus, though he sometimes decided to do so on his own.
  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where Tibbers could fail to go berserk if Annie gave him a command at the moment she died.

V6.10

• Summon Tibbers
  • Bug Fix: Cooldown no longer resets to full if Tibbers lives past the end of the ability's cooldown.

V6.9

• Pyromania
  • The current stacks are displayed beneath Annie's overhead health bar, similar to Jhin's ammunition.
• Incinerate
  • Bug Fix: Annie should no longer damage enemies who escape the area during the cast time. Note that if you escape the area in the same instant the ability resolves - it will still damage you, as with all other abilities.
  • Range increased to 625 from 560.
• Molten Shield
  • Duration reduced to 2.5 seconds from 5.
  • Damage return on being attacked increased to 30 / 45 / 60 / 75 / 90 from 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60.
  • Damage return ratio increased to (+ 30% AP) from (+ 20% AP).
  • Removed: Movement speed on Tibbers.
  • Removed: Armor and Magic resistance.
  • New Effect: Now grants 16 / 22 / 28 / 34 / 40% damage reduction.
• Summon Tibbers
  • Initial damage reduced to 150 / 275 / 400 from 175 / 300 / 425.
  • Initial damage AP ratio reduced to 65% AP from 80% AP.
  • Burn damage reduced to 10 / 15 / 20 from 20 / 30 / 40.
  • Burn damage AP ratio reduced to 10% AP from 20% AP.
  • Tibbers' on-hit damage reduced to 50 / 75 / 100 from 80 / 105 / 130.
  • Tibbers' on-hit damage now scales with 15% AP.
  • Tibbers' attack range increased to 150 from 125.
  • New Effect - Enrage: Tibbers gains 275% attack speed and 100% movement speed that decays over 3 seconds, as well as the ability to ignore unit collision, upon being summoned, when Annie dies and when she stuns a champion with Pyromania.
  • New Effect: Tibbers will now persist after Annie's death. Tibbers must remain within 1200 units of Annie's body and will first prioritize her killer, then low health enemies (champions over minions).
  • New Effect: Tibbers will now regenerate 10% of his maximum health every second if he's been out of combat for at least 5 seconds.
  • New Effect: Tibbers restores 50% of his missing health when Annie dies, but then loses health periodically.
  • New Effect: Tibbers now utilizes the large monster health bar instead of a minion health bar.
  • AI improvements:
    • Target reacquisition after being disabled.
    • Target prioritization
    • Longer leash range
    • Annie can target herself to have him return to following her.

V5.21

• Summon Tibbers / Molten Shield
  • Fixed a bug where the reflected damage from Tibbers' Molten Shield wasn't triggering spell effects.

V5.9

• General
  • Attack range reduced to 575 from 625.

V5.6

• Summon Tibbers
  • Tibbers aura base damage changed to 20 / 30 / 40 from 35 at all ranks.

V5.2

• Molten Shield
  • Armor and Magic Resist Bonus reduced to 10 / 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 from 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60.
• Summon Tibbers
  • When Annie casts Molten Shield, Tibbers gains +300 bonus movement speed, decaying over 0.75 seconds.
  • Tibbers now also receives Molten Shield's Armor and Magic Resist if cast while he is summoned.
  • Tibbers collision radius reduced.

V4.5

• Stats
  • Base armor increased to 12.5 from 8.5.

V4.4

• Disintegrate
  • Base damage reduced to 80 / 115 / 150 / 185 / 220 from 85 / 125 / 165 / 205 / 245.
  • Ability power scaling increased to (+ 80% AP) from (+ 70% AP).
  • If Disintegrate kills its target, the cooldown is reduced by half (in addition to refunding the mana).
• Incinerate
  • Base damage decreased to 70 / 115 / 160 / 205 / 250 from 80 / 130 / 180 / 230 / 280.
  • Ability power ratio increased to (+ 85% AP) from (+ 75% AP).
• Summon Tibbers
  • Base damage decreased to 175 / 300 / 425 from 200 / 325 / 450.
  • Ability power ratio increased to (+ 80% AP) from (+ 70% AP).

V4.1

• Pyromania
  • Stun duration reduced to seconds from 1.75 at all levels.
• Summon Tibbers
  • Cooldown reduced to 120 / 100 / 80 seconds from 120.

V3.8

• Summon Tibbers
  • Tibbers' health increased to 1200 / 2100 / 3000 from 1200 / 1600 / 2000.
  • Tibbers' magic resist increased to 30 / 50 / 70 from 25 / 45 / 65.
  • Mana cost reduced to 100 at all ranks from 125 / 175 / 225.

V1.0.0.154

• Disintegrate
  • Mana cost reduced to 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80 from 60 / 70 / 80 / 90 / 100.
• Incinerate
  • Targeting cone is now attached to Annie.
• Molten Shield
  • Cooldown reduced to 10 seconds from 16.
  • Duration reduced to 5 seconds from 8.

V1.0.0.152

• Stats
  • Movement speed increased to 335 from 310.

V1.0.0.141

• Summon Tibbers
  • Reactivating the ability while Tibbers is active now allows you to control your pet, similar to Alt+Right Clicking.
  • You will also see a self-only targeting particle when using this ability, depicting what command your pet is following.

V1.0.0.139

• Stats
  • Base health increased to 460 from 424.
• Incinerate
  • Mana cost reduced to 70 / 80 / 90 / 100 / 110 from 80 / 95 / 110 / 125 / 140.
• Molten Shield
  • Fixed a bug where it was returning damage to turrets.
  • Duration reduced to 8 seconds from 15.
  • Cooldown reduced to 16 seconds from 30.
  • Mana cost reduced to 20 from 25.
  • Armor and magic resist bonus increased to 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60 from 10 / 20 / 30 / 40 / 50.

V1.0.0.138

• Pyromania
  • Now works like other charged passives; activating a spell with the stun no longer builds a charge, but the number of charges required to energize reduced to 4 from 5.

V1.0.0.122

• Disintegrate
  • Base damage reduced to 85 / 125 / 165 / 205 / 245 from 90 / 130 / 170 / 210 / 250.
  • Ability power ratio reduced to (+ 70% AP) from (+ 75% AP)
• Incinerate
  • Base damage reduced to 80 / 130 / 180 / 230 / 280 from 85 / 135 / 185 / 235 / 285.
  • Ability power ratio reduced to (+ 75% AP) from (+ 80% AP).

V1.0.0.120

• Fixed a bug where Molten Shield damage wouldn't trigger if the damage done to Annie was absorbed by other shields.

V1.0.0.118b

• General
  • Reverted last patch's walking animation update.
• Disintegrate
  • Base damage changed to 90 / 130 / 170 / 210 / 250 from 80 / 125 / 170 / 215 / 260.
  • Ability power ratio increased to (+ 75% AP) from (+ 60% AP).
  • Mana cost reduced to 60 / 70 / 80 / 90 / 100 from 60 / 75 / 90 / 105 / 120.
• Incinerate
  • Ability power ratio increased to (+ 80% AP) from (+ 60% AP).
  • Base damage reduced to 85 / 135 / 185 / 235 / 285 from 85 / 145 / 205 / 265 / 325.
  • Mana cost reduced to 80 / 95 / 110 / 125 / 140 from 80 / 100 / 120 / 140 / 160.
• Summon Tibbers
  • Mana cost reduced to 125 / 175 / 225 from 150 / 200 / 250.
  • No longer gives experience on death.
  • Gold bounty increased to 50 from 15.
  • Tibber's health increased to 1200 / 1600 / 2000 from 1200 at all ranks.
  • Now gains armor per rank: 30 / 50 / 70.
  • Now gains magic resist per rank: 25 / 45 / 65.
  • Reduced the duration to 45 seconds from 60 seconds.
  • Area-of-effect burn damage is now 35 at all ranks from 40 / 60 / 80, but now has a (+20% AP) ability power ratio.

V1.0.0.118

• General
  • Walking animation updated.
• Pyromania
  • Added a gray version of the charging icon.

V1.0.0.112

• General
  • Classic Skin Splash Art updated.

V1.0.0.111

• General
  • Updated tooltips.

V1.0.0.105

• Summon Tibbers
  • Tooltip cleaned up for clarity and included the damage values for Tibbers' area of effect damage.

V1.0.0.100

• Corrected the buff tooltip on Molten Shield so it correctly states that all attackers receive magic damage.

V1.0.0.99

• Molten Shield
  • Now reflects damage to all normal attacks instead of just melee attacks.

V1.0.0.86

• Fixed a bug where using Molten Shield after respawning would not trigger the Pyromania counter.

V1.0.0.79

• Disintegrate
  • Missile speed increased.

V1.0.0.75

• Pyromania
  • Fixed a bug that allowed Annie to double stun.

V1.0.0.63

• Stats
  • Basic attack projectile speed increased to 1200 from 780.

V0.9.25.34

• Summon Tibbers
  • If Tibbers kills a sigil monster, Annie will now receive the sigil.
• Disintegrate
  • Spell projectile changed back to previous look.

V0.9.25.24

• Incinerate
  • Ability power ratio increased to (+ 60% AP) from (+ 50% AP).
• Summon Tibbers
  • Ability power ratio increased to (+ 70% AP) from (+ 60% AP).

V0.9.25.21

• Summon Tibbers
  • AI improved to function better.

V0.9.22.16

• Summon Tibbers
  • Renamed from Infernal Guardian.

V0.9.22.15

• Infernal Guardian
  • Area of effect on Tibbers' burning aura reduced to 350 from 400.
• Disintegrate
  • Base damage increased to 90 / 130 / 170 / 215 / 260 from 80 / 125 / 170 / 215 / 260.

V0.9.22.7

• Infernal Guardian
  • Cast range reduced from 650 to 600.

V0.8.22.115

• Infernal Guardian
  • Tibbers now dies after 60 seconds or when Annie dies.

July 10, 2009 Patch

• Stats
  • Attack speed reduced to be in line with other casters.
• Infernal Guardian
  • Base damage reduced to 200 / 325 / 450 from 250 / 375 / 500.

June 26, 2009 Patch

• Stats
  • Attack speed reduced to be in line with other casters.
• Pyromania: stun duration modified to 1.75 from 1 / 1.25 / 1.5 / 1.75 / 2 / 2.25 sec.

June 19, 2009 Patch

• Infernal Guardian
  • Cast range reduced to 700 from 800.

June 12, 2009 Patch

• Stats
  • Base damage increased to 49 from 40.

May 15, 2009 Patch

• Made new recommended items.

April 25, 2009 Patch

• Updated recommended items.

Alpha Week 7

• General
  • Ability power growth per level reduced to 0 from 6.
  • Fixed tooltip errors.
• Incinerate
  • Base damage increased to 85 / 145 / 205 / 265 / 325 from 80 / 135 / 190 / 245 / 300.
• Infernal Guardian
  • Base damage increased to 250 / 375 / 500 from 200 / 325 / 450

Alpha Week 4

• Molten Shield
  • Ability power ratio increased to (+ 20% AP) from (+ 15% AP).
  • Damage to attacker increased to 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60 from 10 / 20 / 30 / 40 / 50.

Alpha Week 3

• Pyromania
  • Stun duration increased to 5 seconds from 4.
• Disintegrate
  • Base damage reduced to 80 / 125 / 170 / 215 / 260 from 80 / 130 / 180 / 230 / 280.
  • Ability power ratio reduced to (+ 60% AP) from (+ 75% AP).

Alpha Week 2

• General
  • Fixed bug with Annie's attack timing.
  • Fixed a bug with Annie's Pyromania which caused her passive to not activate with some spells.
  • Fixed tooltip typos for Disintegrate, Incinerate, Infernal Guardian.
  • Fixed tooltip functionality for Molten Shield.
• Infernal Guardian
  • Reduced Tibbers' attack damage and armor.