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.
Keep your distance to avoid being Flung back into Singed's allies.
Singed needs to run close to your team to be effective. Try to take advantage of this by using crowd control effects on him while attacking his allies.
Be careful when chasing Singed. He's very difficult to bring down, and can leave his Poison Trail to damage you in your pursuit.
The stat comparisons shown here feature some critical Naafiri vs. Singed matchup statistics that can help you explain the differences and similarities between this set of champs. As an example, Naafiri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Singed’s ratio of NaN, showing that Naafiri may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Singed. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Naafiri typically has a much larger longest kill spree than their foe does. On average, they receives less damage than Singed. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Naafiri usually loses when trying to fight Singed, with a 45.9% win rate. As a result, Naafiri makes a poor counter to Singed.
While Naafiri does have a much lower win rate compared to Singed, when facing one another, Naafiri also has a lower level of difficulty that makes them a less challenging character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Naafiri into Singed.
Furthermore, Naafiri also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Singed. This often 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 overall in League of Legends, in Naafiri vs Singed matchups, Singed is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Naafiri is a trash counter for Singed. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Naafiri against Singed.
If you would like to truly master Naafiri in order to counter Singed during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Naafiri on average accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Singed. Champs who on average don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Naafiri versus Singed build include Eclipse, Serylda's Grudge, and Profane Hydra. When Naafiri included at least these three pieces in their build, they performed a lot better when facing Singed than with most other typical builds. In fact, Naafiri boasted an average win rate of 45.9% when countering Singed with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Singed as Naafiri, Naafiri players should use 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 combinations players chose for Naafiri vs Singed battles, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 45.9% winrate overall.
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