[2023] State of Annie in soloq.

She was hotfixed during the 13.3 patch which brought her down from ~56% to ~54%. This is likely still out of line but we wanted to be confident she wouldn’t fall back into “strong but not OP” range naturally, as she fell from 58%-56% from patch start to before the micropatch.

With that said, my guess is we nerf next opportunity (11.5). We intend for her to be good, but she’s clearly over the line at the moment. A reasonable resting win-rate for Annie, a simple champion with limited mobility and range, is likely in the 52% area, considering how many champions sit <48% to account for opposite pattern. We are a little slow in this case due to the micropatch hitting a little lighter than expected and the weird circumstances of the patch (support and mid meta being in flux)

I know there’s people actively still thinking about them. RoA and Seraphs were just improved and Horizon Focus is being looked at. The rest of the mage item system is still being thought about. Identifying what the actual issues are is the difficult part as all of the items are gold efficient and work, and mages continue to be pro play dominant. So it’s not as simple as “fix mage items” when the problems aren’t clear.

We are tracking Lillia's performance. We are cautious about buffing early speed due to her ability to quickly overtake junglers in both move speed and clear speed if she's too effective.

We are intentionally avoiding buffs that might put her on the pro radar as we've seen her jump from 0-100% presence and need to be nerfed to compensate. We currently believe the current shape (scaling AP jungler) allows her to rest at higher win-rates than before for the average soloq player.