Annie vs Naafiri Counter Pick

Naafiri is built as an Assassin/Fighter with a difficulty score of just 2, one of the simplest kits to execute in the game, and it is enough to beat Annie in 53.9% of their 293 recorded games on patch 16.13.1, leaving Annie at 46.1% and the matchup rated Hard for her.

The packmates from We Are More apply pressure Annie cannot answer with a single stun: even landing Pyromania on Naafiri herself leaves her AI-controlled dogs still attacking, and Eviscerate both closes distance and heals those packmates back to full. Darkin Daggers deal physical damage at close range, so Annie’s 23 armor offers real mitigation, but Naafiri’s 340 move speed and dash access through Hounds’ Pursuit make it hard to keep the fight at the distance where Incinerate and Disintegrate do the most work.

The Call of the Pack grants Naafiri Untargetability while spawning more packmates, which can absorb or dodge the Tibbers engage that usually wins this kind of matchup for Annie. Trading around minion waves rather than committing to all-ins before core items is the safer approach, since Naafiri’s simplicity means she scales through repeated short trades rather than a single cooldown-dependent combo.