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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.
The Naafiri Ahri synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ahri, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Naafiri sees a large worsening in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Ahri. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Ahri helps Naafiri perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Naafiri is an ally to Ahri, they gets a measurable drop in their complete damage output. This change may signal that Ahri doesn't help protection for them to deal more damage or that her presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Naafiri is played together with Ahri on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing alongside Ahri.
Additionally, when Naafiri plays with Ahri on the same team, they usually takes a little more damage than when they fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Ahri does a poor job of protecting Naafiri during teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best companion for Naafiri that will always be their ideal synergy. However, Ahri is a terrible companion for Naafiri. By being on the same team as Naafiri, she decreases their win rate by -4.2% to 46.0%. This clearly indicates that there is a terrible bond between Naafiri and Ahri that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Ahri has a greater difficulty than Naafiri. That means you must be very careful when finding Ahri allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by aligning Naafiri and Ahri together, you probably will not be granting your side very much magical damage output. Plan to have other champs on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Ahri ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Naafiri in order to synergize with Ahri during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Naafiri and Ahri synergy build consist of Serylda's Grudge, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Naafiri included at least these three pieces in their build, they performed a lot better as an ally of Ahri than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Naafiri boasted an average win rate of 46.0% helping carry Ahri with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Naafiri players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Naafiri and Ahri pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.0% win rate overall.
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