Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
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The Ahri Naafiri synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Naafiri, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Ahri sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Naafiri. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Naafiri helps Ahri perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Ahri tries to synergize with Naafiri, she gets a little decrease in her total damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Naafiri does not help cover for her to deal more damage or that their allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Ahri is played alongside Naafiri on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Naafiri.
Moreover, when Ahri plays with Naafiri on the same team, she usually takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Naafiri does a decent job of protecting Ahri during team fights.
There is no perfect champion pairing for Ahri that will no matter what be her #1 ally. Yet, Naafiri is a relatively poor companion for Ahri. By locking into the same side as Ahri, they lowers their win rate by -2.2% to 46.0%. This shows that there is a bad strategic relationship between Ahri and Naafiri that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Naafiri has a much lower diffuclty than Ahri. That means Ahri players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Naafiri teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
When playing alongside, Ahri players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by bringing Ahri and Naafiri together, you probably will not be providing your side much magic damage. Make sure to include other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Naafiri ally, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ahri to pair well with Naafiri during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, 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 by a lot.
The best items to have in your Ahri and Naafiri synergy build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Ahri combined at least these three finished items in her build, she did much better when fighting alongside Naafiri than with many other typical builds. In fact, Ahri had an average winrate of 46.0% helping carry Naafiri with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, Ahri players should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.0% winrate overall.
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