Naafiri vs Lee Sin
How to Beat Lee Sin as Naafiri
based on 1,459 Naafiri vs Lee Sin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Naafiri vs Lee Sin Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Lee Sin as Naafiri
Tips for Playing as Naafiri against Lee Sin
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Advice to Win Against Lee Sin
Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.
Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.
Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.
Naafiri vs Lee Sin Counter Stats
How to Counter Lee Sin with Naafiri in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore several vital Naafiri against Lee Sin matchup stats that may help you understand the distinctions between the two. As an example, Naafiri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lee Sin’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Naafiri may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Lee Sin..
Naafiri usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than their opponent does. Commonly, they receives less damage than Lee Sin. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Naafiri or Lee Sin?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Naafiri usually wins when playing against Lee Sin, with a 54.3% win rate. As a result, Naafiri makes a great counter to Lee Sin.
While Naafiri does have a much higher winrate than Lee Sin, when on opposite teams, Naafiri also has a much lower difficulty level that makes them a less complex champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Naafiri into Lee Sin.
Moreover, Naafiri also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lee Sin. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Naafiri vs Lee Sin 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 teammates during teamfights.
Naafiri is a great counter for Lee Sin. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Naafiri against Lee Sin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Naafiri to counter Lee Sin during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Naafiri typically picks up much more CS compared to Lee Sin. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Naafiri versus Lee Sin build consist of Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Opportunity. When Naafiri bought at least these three pieces in their build, they did significantly better countering Lee Sin than with most other common item sets. In fact, Naafiri had an average winrate of 54.3% when countering Lee Sin with these items in their kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Lee Sin as Naafiri, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Naafiri vs Lee Sin LoL games, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 54.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Lee Sin as Naafiri are displayed for all skill levels combined. If you want to scope the stats and builds to an individual rank, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.