Tank Annie Build

General

1. You play Tank Annie.
2. You rush Heartsteel #1.
3. You are gonna have tons of HP.
4. You build items that scale and/or benefit from HP stacking.
• And you build Armor and MR tanky items, depending on the situation and adapting to the enemy team.

General

1. You rush Heartsteel.

Item Order

1. Item Order after Heartsteel is flexible. You need to see what you need in particular game:
• Get Overlord's Bloodmail for more damage and AD.
• Get Warmog's Armor as anti-poke item (helps you stay in lane) and for some sweet HP.
• Get Unending Despair, if there are prolonged fights in which you can stay near enemies (or enemies near you). The items gets better, the more HP you get.
• Get various Armor and/or MR items to counter enemy team.
• Get Titanic Hydra for more fun , more damage and some survivability.

Items

1. Sundered Sky is very good damage item for this build (as #2-#4 depending on the game). It scales off your HP (so Grasp, Heartsteel, Overgrowth). It gives damage and pretty good sustain in fights. Remember to switch targets to maximize the effect!
2. Guardian's Horn is a surprisingly good item for its price. You can keep it for a very long time (or even have it as 6th item).

Runes

1. Second Wind scales off with your HP, so it is going to be powerful sustain rune. You can use it by purposefully triggering it by letting enemies poke you a little or walking over some harmful spells.
2. Shield Bash is good rune for this build, since you can proc it reliably.
3. Triumph is better (heal + gold), but if you want to have easier time with your mana, go Presence of the Mind.

During game

1. Your main damage and power comes from auto attacks - Grasp of the Undying, Heartsteel
2. This is auto attack oriented Annie build, so do it! Especially if running with Titanic Hydra and Sundered Sky as well.
3. You can prioritize switching between champions in the fight, just to farm more Heartsteel procs.
4. You need to adapt your items to the game. Enemy team heavy on AP? Buy MR. They heavy on AD? Buy Armor. You need some damage? Well buy that.
5. Remember to consume your Heartsteel procs!
6. Remember to consume your Grasp of the Undying procs!

Champion

1. Keep track of the stacks of your Pyromania (Passive)!
2. Disintegrate (Q) has travel time, Incinerate (W) is as instant cast, and Summon: Tibbers (R) is a targeted ability. It means that instant stun that they cannot dodge or site step is W.
3. If you are not sure if you will land Tibbers, use Q first to stun them, then use R.
4. If you hit somebody with Mark (Snowball) and you go in, it is very telegraphed action. Opponents will expect you to use Tibbers right off. So they will use Flash as soon as you get to them. In such cases, it is better to stun them with Q or W. Followed by Tibbers to destroy them, while they are stunned.
5. Preparing to engage? Stack your Pyromania (Passive) with Incinerate (W) and Molten Shield (E).
6. If you want to catch somebody off guard or have better engage, use Molten Shield (E) on yourself for Movement Speed buff beforehand.
7. Annie combo #1: you can stun somebody with Disintegrate (Q) with 3 stacks! It has travel time, so during that you can use W or E to get full stacks and Q will still stun them.
8. Do not be shy and do not wait for 'special moment'. You have good engaging and catching tool - AoE stun with R. Paired with movement speed buff from E + Flash it is a certain AoE stun and often won fight.

Riot

1. Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
2. Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
3. Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.