Across the sands of Shurima, a chorus of howls rings out. It is the call of the dune hounds, voracious predators who form packs and compete for the right to hunt in these barren lands. Among them, one pack stands above all, for they are driven not only by canine instincts, but by the ancient power of the Darkin.
Ashe has very few defensive options, and she's a good target to gank.
Be wary of moving around the map alone if Ashe has not recently cast her Enchanted Crystal Arrow.
The stat comparisons shown here underscore several significant Naafiri against Ashe matchup statistics that can help us distinguish the differences between these two champs. As an example, Naafiri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Ashe’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Naafiri may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Ashe. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Naafiri often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than their foe does. Commonly, they receives more damage than Ashe. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Naafiri usually wins when facing off against Ashe, with a 53.1% win rate. Thus, Naafiri makes a great counter for Ashe.
While Naafiri does have a higher win rate than Ashe, when they face off with one another, Naafiri also has a lower learning curve that makes them a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Naafiri into Ashe.
Moreover, Naafiri has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ashe. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Naafiri vs Ashe matchups, Naafiri is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Naafiri is a great counter to Ashe. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Naafiri against Ashe.
To truly master Naafiri in order to counter Ashe during both the early game 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 mind the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Naafiri usually accumulates a similar amount of CS as Ashe. Champions who on average don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Naafiri versus Ashe build consist of Guardian Angel, Edge of Night, and Serylda's Grudge. When Naafiri incorporated at least these three pieces in their build, they performed significantly better versus Ashe than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Naafiri boasted an average win rate of 53.1% battling Ashe with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Ashe as Naafiri, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Naafiri vs Ashe counter picks, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 53.1% winrate overall.
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