Naafiri with Bard
How to Synergize Naafiri and Bard
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Naafiri Bard Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Naafiri and Bard
Tips for Playing as Naafiri with Bard
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Naafiri Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Naafiri in LoL
The Naafiri Bard synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Bard, 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 Bard. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Bard helps Naafiri perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Naafiri is an ally to Bard, they observes a little increase in their complete damage output. This may signal that Bard provides protection for them to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Naafiri is played alongside Bard on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays without Bard. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing with Bard.
Additionally, when Naafiri plays with Bard on the same team, they often takes a little less damage than when they fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Bard does a decent job of covering Naafiri in team fights.
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Is Naafiri better when played alongside Bard?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Naafiri that will 100% of the time be their ideal teammate. However, overall, Bard is a great companion for Naafiri. By playing on the same side as Naafiri, he raises their win rate by 4.2% to 54.4%. This clearly indicates that there is a very real bond between Naafiri and Bard that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Bard has a much greater difficulty compared to Naafiri. That means Naafiri players need to be cautious when finding Bard comrades to play with, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working alongside, Naafiri players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Naafiri and Bard together, you probably will not be granting your other allies much magical damage output. We recommend you have other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Bard ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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
If you would like to truly master Naafiri to work well with Bard during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to get in your Naafiri and Bard synergy build consist of Maw of Malmortius, Serylda's Grudge, and Profane Hydra. When Naafiri incorporated at least these three finished items in their build, they performed much better as an ally of Bard than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Naafiri had an average win rate of 54.4% when synergizing their build and playstyle to Bard with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, you 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 rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 54.4% win rate overall.
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