Hwei vs Naafiri
How to Beat Naafiri as Hwei
based on 2,486 Hwei vs Naafiri matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Hwei vs Naafiri Matchup Summary
Best Hwei vs Naafiri Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Naafiri as Hwei
Tips for Playing as Hwei against Naafiri
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Hwei vs Naafiri Counter Stats
How to Counter Naafiri with Hwei in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature some strategic Hwei vs. Naafiri counter stats that can help us interpret the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Hwei’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Naafiri’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Hwei may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Naafiri..
Hwei often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than their counter does. Commonly, they takes less damage than Naafiri. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Hwei and Naafiri
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Who is Better, Hwei or Naafiri?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Hwei usually loses when trying to fight Naafiri, with a 44.6% win rate. As a result, Hwei makes a poor counter to Naafiri.
While Hwei does have a much lower winrate than Naafiri, when they face off with one another, Hwei also has a much greater difficulty level that makes them a more complex character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Hwei into Naafirias their relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash their full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Hwei also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Naafiri. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Hwei vs Naafiri matchups, Naafiri is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Hwei is a bad counter for Naafiri. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Hwei against Naafiri.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Hwei to counter Naafiri during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Hwei on average gets a similar amount of CS as Naafiri. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Hwei versus Naafiri build consist of Malignance, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Hwei incorporated at least these three pieces in their build, they did much better versus Naafiri than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Hwei had an average winrate of 44.6% when playing against Naafiri with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Naafiri as Hwei, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Gathering Storm, and Manaflow Band runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Hwei vs Naafiri counter picks, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 44.6% win rate overall.
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