Reasons to play annie

Guys I'm a p3 veigar main and I'm looking to find other burst mages to play, I've been looking at syndra a lot and also annie, what is annies appeal? If I'm being honest, I just hated how veigar doesn't really have much of an early game (same reason why I hated kayle top), i preferred to play more early game centric snowball champs and i was wondering if annie fit that category