How to win lane as Annie against Hwei · 52.38% win rate over 1,115 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Hwei | Level 1: Hwei's multiple ranged poke tools outrange and outdamage Annie's early kit before she has any stun leverage. |
| Level 2 | Hwei | Level 2: Annie still lacks the item power to punish Hwei's safe poke-and-retreat pattern from max range. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | Level 3 skill-based: Annie's stun starts landing reliably enough that clean execution can flip a poke trade either way. |
| Levels 4-5 | Annie | Levels 4-5 favor Annie: her stun-punish window now consistently beats Hwei's setup-heavy combo before it goes off. |
| Level 6 | Annie | Level 6 favors Annie: Tibbers gives her a closing tool that reaches Hwei before his combo/root sequence fully lands. |
| First item | Annie | First item favors Annie: her completed burst mythic lets a landed stun kill Hwei before he can kite with his ranged kit. |
| Two+ items | Hwei | 2+ items favor Hwei: his fully scaled combo-plus-ultimate becomes one of the highest burst-and-CC packages in the game, edging past Annie's single-combo threat. |
Levels 1-2 are difficult: Hwei's kit gives him multiple ranged poke options that outrange your Disintegrate, and he can chip your health bar without ever entering stun range. Play very passively, hold E for the shield when he pokes, and don't contest CS you can't safely reach. By level 3 the trades even out as your stun starts landing reliably enough to punish his positioning — this becomes a genuinely close, mechanically-decided window where good stun timing can flip a poke exchange into a kill.
The full Annie vs Hwei report continues with the mid-game plan, the late-game and teamfight plan, every power spike to play around, and the win conditions for both sides — plus cooldown tracking and the live enemy-jungle tracker inside the app.
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