Arena of Valor Annette Support Guide: Skill Combos and Peeling

To play Annette effectively in Arena of Valor, anchor beside your marksman in the Abyssal Dragon lane, prioritize disengage crowd control over raw damage, and hold defensive abilities to disrupt enemy dive attempts. Success with Annette relies on tethering targets together with her Skill 2 stun, trapping immobilized enemies inside the slow field of Skill 1, and deploying Hurricane Wall to physically block assassins from reaching your backline carries.

Annette's Ability Kit and Disengage Mechanics

Annette operates as a defensive support and zone controller built to peel for squishy teammates rather than frontline for damage.

Passive – Whisperwind: Grants Annette bonus movement speed when moving near allied heroes. This passive aids rotations between lane brushes and helps maintain defensive positioning alongside carries.
Skill 1 – Gusting Breeze: Summons a stationary wind vortex at a designated area. The vortex deals continuous ticking damage and applies a persistent movement speed slow to all enemies caught inside.
Skill 2 – Wind's Path: Fires a piercing wind sphere in a straight line. If the projectile hits a second target—such as another hero, a jungle creep, or a minion—it tethers the two units together, drags them into each other for a hard stun, and grants Annette a shield.
Ultimate / Skill 3 – Hurricane Wall: Knocks back surrounding hostile heroes and creates an impassable circular wind barrier that blocks enemy entry while granting crowd control immunity and movement speed to allies standing within it.

Essential Skill Combos

Layer Annette's abilities so displacement and crowd control force enemies to take the maximum duration of damage inside her vortex.

Combo	Input Sequence	Objective	Trigger Condition
Collision Trap	Skill 2 → Skill 1 → Basic Attack	Lane poke and guaranteed stun	An enemy hero lines up behind a lane minion or ally
Anti-Dive Barrier	Skill 3 → Skill 2 → Skill 1	Carry peel and assassin shutdown	A melee diver or assassin leaps onto your backline
Brush Ambush	Skill 1 → Skill 2 → Skill 3	Choke point lockdown	Clustered enemies advance into an unwarded brush

Collision Trap Execution

Cast Wind's Path through an active lane minion so the projectile pierces through and strikes the enemy hero behind it. As the tether pulls both targets together into a stun, place Gusting Breeze directly at the collision point. The stun locks both targets in place, forcing them to absorb the full vortex damage and slow ticks while your marksman follows up with basic attacks.

Anti-Dive Peeling Sequence

When mobile assassins dive your marksman, do not cast Wind's Path immediately. Fire Hurricane Wall first to instantly shove the attacker away and establish an impassable boundary. As the diver rebounds off the barrier, cast Wind's Path to tether them against an adjacent enemy or minion, then drop Gusting Breeze to prevent any re-engagement.

Lane Positioning and Peeling Strategy

Annette should maintain parallel spacing with late-game marksmen such as Violet, Tel'Annas, or Yorn. Position inside lane bushes along the river to conceal the wind-up of Wind's Path and safely deploy Gusting Breeze to slow approaching minion waves. When opposing duos step forward past their creeps, use the minion line to trigger two-target collision stuns.

During incoming ganks, switch focus to retreat safety:

Cast Hurricane Wall directly across the enemy pursuit line to deny straight dashes and intercept skillshots.
Direct your carry to retreat behind the barrier toward tower safety.
Save Wind's Path to stun pursuers who attempt to flank around the wall's outer perimeter.
Avoid casting Hurricane Wall offensively under enemy towers early in the match, as losing your ultimate leaves both lane partners vulnerable to counter-engages.

Objective Zoning and Choke Point Control

During late-game contests around the Dark Slayer and Abyssal Dragon pits, Annette controls engagements by cutting off jungle corridors. Deploy Hurricane Wall across narrow paths to bisect the opposing formation, separating enemy tanks from their damage dealers.

While the barrier remains standing, place Gusting Breeze at the exposed rim to punish enemies attempting to path around it. Stay close to your primary carry instead of roaming forward, and reserve Wind's Path to tether flanking bruisers who use mobility skills to bypass the wall.

Recommended Build and Arcana

Annette prioritizes cooldown reduction, movement speed, and hybrid survivability to maximize ability uptime during extended teamfights.

Item Path

Mother Earth: Genesis: Grants baseline defensive auras to allies while providing durability against burst damage.
Gilded Greaves: Offers magic defense and resistance to reduce incoming crowd control durations.
Virtuous Bracelet: Supplies essential mana sustainability and cooldown reduction.
Shield of the Lost: Lowers the attack speed of nearby enemies to weaken dive threats.
Medallion of Troy: Adds magic defense, maximum health, and cooldown reduction.
Berith's Agony: Provides physical defense, cooldown reduction, and percentage-health burn damage on Gusting Breeze ticks.

Arcana Setup

Indomitable (Red): Grants armor and maximum health for early-game trade resistance.
Benevolence (Purple): Supplies passive health regeneration and roaming movement speed.
Focus (Green): Delivers flat cooldown reduction to increase spell rotation frequency.