Leona with Naafiri
How to Synergize Leona and Naafiri
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Leona Naafiri Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Naafiri
Tips for Playing as Leona with Naafiri
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Advice to Understand How Naafiri Will Play
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Leona Naafiri Synergy Stats
How to Play with Naafiri as Leona in LoL
The Leona 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, Leona sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Naafiri. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Naafiri helps Leona perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Leona is an ally to Naafiri, she observes a small decrease in her full damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Naafiri does not provide cover for her to deal more damage or that their presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played alongside Naafiri on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Naafiri. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Naafiri.
Additionally, when Leona plays with Naafiri on the same team, she usually receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Naafiri does a decent job of covering Leona in teamfights.
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Is Leona better when played alongside Naafiri?
There is no ideal ally for Leona that will always be her #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Naafiri is a very typical teammate for Leona. By being on the same side as Leona, they drops their win rate by -0.9% to 51.3%. This proves that there is a weak synergy between Leona and Naafiri that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Naafiri has a lower difficulty than Leona. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Naafiri comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide utility and CC for your side. Combined, these champions may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Although, by pairing Leona and Naafiri together, you may not be giving your other allies much AP. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Naafiri ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Leona to pair well with Naafiri during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to focus on in your Leona and Naafiri synergy build consist of Thornmail, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona combined at least these three finished items in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Naafiri than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Leona boasted an average win rate of 51.3% helping carry Naafiri with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, Leona players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Naafiri with Leona are given for all skill levels combined. To narrow the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier on the page.