Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
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.
The Aatrox Naafiri synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Naafiri, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Aatrox sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Naafiri. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Naafiri helps Aatrox perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Aatrox is paired with Naafiri, he gets a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Naafiri doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that their participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Aatrox is played together with Naafiri on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Naafiri.
Moreover, when Aatrox plays with Naafiri on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Naafiri does a decent job of covering Aatrox in team fights.
There is no ideal ally for Aatrox that will no matter what be his top ally. However, Naafiri is a not very good teammate for Aatrox. By playing on the same side as Aatrox, they lowers their win rate by -1.5% to 48.9%. This shows that there is a bad bond between Aatrox and Naafiri that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Naafiri has a lower difficulty than Aatrox. That means Aatrox players don't need to be very careful when finding Naafiri teammates to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working on the same side, Aatrox players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Aatrox and Naafiri together, you probably will not be providing your side enough magic damage. Make sure to include other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Naafiri ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
To truly master Aatrox in order to synergize with Naafiri during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to have in your Aatrox and Naafiri synergy build include Spear of Shojin, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Aatrox used at least these three great items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Naafiri than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Aatrox had an average win rate of 48.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Naafiri with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, Aatrox players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Naafiri with Aatrox are given for all skill levels combined. If you want to filter the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you can use the selection menu located at the top of this page.