Alistar with Naafiri
How to Synergize Alistar and Naafiri
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Alistar Naafiri Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Naafiri
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Naafiri
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Advice to Understand How Naafiri Will Play
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Alistar Naafiri Synergy Stats
How to Play with Naafiri as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar 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, Alistar sees a very large drop in his 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 Alistar perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Alistar tries to synergize with Naafiri, he gets a little decrease in his total damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Naafiri does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that their support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played together with Naafiri on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Naafiri. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Naafiri.
Moreover, when Alistar plays with Naafiri on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Naafiri does a decent job of protecting Alistar in team fights.
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Naafiri?
There is no one best champion pairing for Alistar that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Naafiri is a good ally for Alistar. By locking into the same team as Alistar, they increases their win rate by 1.9% to 51.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a potentially meaningful synergy between Alistar and Naafiri that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Naafiri has a much lower diffuclty than Alistar. That means Alistar players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Naafiri teammates to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Playing together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by aligning Alistar and Naafiri together, you will not be providing your side a great deal of AP. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Naafiri ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Alistar to work well with Naafiri during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to have in your Alistar and Naafiri synergy build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Naafiri than with most other typical builds. In fact, Alistar had an average win rate of 51.3% helping carry Naafiri with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, Alistar players should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.3% winrate overall.
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