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.
Lissandra's Ring of Frost has a long cooldown at early ranks; engage her while it's on cooldown.
Lissandra's Ice Shard only slows the first unit it hits. Approach Lissandra from behind your team's minions to avoid being slowed.
The best way to stop Lissandra from moving using her Glacial Path is to immobilize her before she reactivates it.
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight some valuable Naafiri versus Lissandra matchup stats that can help you figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Naafiri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lissandra’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Naafiri may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Lissandra..
Naafiri usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than their foe does. Typically, they receives more damage than Lissandra. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Naafiri usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Lissandra, with a 49.2% win rate. Thus, Naafiri makes an ok counter for Lissandra.
While Naafiri does have a lower winrate than Lissandra, when facing one another, Naafiri also has a much lower difficulty level that makes them a less time consuming champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Naafiri into Lissandra.
Furthermore, Naafiri has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lissandra. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Naafiri vs Lissandra matchups, Lissandra is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Naafiri is a somewhat poor counter to Lissandra. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Naafiri against Lissandra.
To learn all of the intricacies of Naafiri in order to counter Lissandra during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Naafiri on average picks up a similar amount of CS as Lissandra. Champs who on average don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to have in your Naafiri versus Lissandra build include Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Profane Hydra. When Naafiri combined at least these three pieces in their build, they did significantly better when facing Lissandra than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Naafiri had an average winrate of 49.2% when countering Lissandra with these items in their kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Lissandra as Naafiri, Naafiri players should equip 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 sets players used for Naafiri vs Lissandra clashes, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Lissandra as Naafiri are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a particular skill level, you may use the selection menu above.