Naafiri with Akali
How to Synergize Naafiri and Akali
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Naafiri Akali Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Naafiri and Akali
Tips for Playing as Naafiri with Akali
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Advice to Understand How Akali Will Play
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.
Naafiri Akali Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akali as Naafiri in LoL
The Naafiri Akali synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akali, 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 very large drop in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akali. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Akali helps Naafiri perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Naafiri plays on the same team as Akali, they sees a small decrease in their total damage output. This could signal that Akali 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 with Akali on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays without Akali. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing synergisticly with Akali.
Additionally, when Naafiri plays with Akali on the same side, they usually receives a little more damage than when they plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Akali does a poor job of protecting Naafiri during teamfights.
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Is Naafiri better when played alongside Akali?
There is no one best companion for Naafiri that will no matter what be their top teammate. However, Akali is a below average teammate for Naafiri. By locking into the same team as Naafiri, she decreases their win rate by -2.2% to 48.0%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative bond between Naafiri and Akali that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Akali has a much greater difficulty compared to Naafiri. That means you must be careful when lining up Akali teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a much higher level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working alongside, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by bringing Naafiri and Akali together, you will not be giving your other teammates enough crowd control. Plan to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Akali teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Naafiri to work well with Akali during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to focus on in your Naafiri and Akali synergy build consist of Serylda's Grudge, Axiom Arc, and Profane Hydra. When Naafiri combined at least these three pieces in their build, they did much better when paired up with Akali than with most other typical builds. In fact, Naafiri had an average win rate of 48.0% when playing alongside Akali with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, Naafiri players should take 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 picked for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.0% winrate overall.
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