Akali with Naafiri
How to Synergize Akali and Naafiri
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Akali Naafiri Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Akali and Naafiri
Tips for Playing as Akali with Naafiri
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Advice to Understand How Naafiri Will Play
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Akali Naafiri Synergy Stats
How to Play with Naafiri as Akali in LoL
The Akali 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, Akali sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Naafiri. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Naafiri helps Akali perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Akali tries to synergize with Naafiri, she observes a marginal improvement in her full damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Naafiri provides protection for her to dish out more damage or that their support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played with Naafiri on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Naafiri.
Moreover, when Akali plays with Naafiri on the same side, she on average receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Naafiri does a poor job of protecting Akali during team fights.
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Is Akali better when played alongside Naafiri?
There is no ideal ally for Akali that will 100% of the time be her #1 ally. Yet, overall, Naafiri is a not very good ally for Akali. By playing on the same team as Akali, they decreases their win rate by -1.1% to 48.0%. This shows that there is a bad bond between Akali and Naafiri that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Naafiri has a much lower diffuclty than Akali. That means Akali players don't need to be careful when lining up Naafiri allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Akali players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by bringing Akali and Naafiri together, you may not be giving your other allies enough support. Plan to bring other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Naafiri teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Akali to work well with Naafiri during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to build first in your Akali and Naafiri synergy build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Akali bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Naafiri than with many other common item sets. In fact, Akali boasted an average win rate of 48.0% when playing alongside Naafiri with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.0% win rate overall.
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