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Use Moonfall and Lunar Rush to stay on targets and activate Moonsilver Blade for extra damage.
Consider when to cast Lunar Rush without Moonlight and when to wait for another Crescent Strike.
Landing Crescent Strike is critically important, but don't be afraid to miss. The cooldown is short and the mana cost is low.
The Naafiri Diana synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Diana, 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 Diana. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Diana helps Naafiri perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Naafiri is an ally to Diana, they sees a barely noticable drop in their complete damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Diana does not provide protection for them to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Naafiri is played alongside Diana 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 Diana.
Additionally, when Naafiri plays with Diana on the same team, they often takes a little less damage than when they plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Diana does a decent job of protecting Naafiri in team fights.
There is no ideal champion pairing for Naafiri that will 100% of the time be their ideal ally. However, Diana is a very typical companion for Naafiri. By playing on the same team as Naafiri, she raises their win rate by 0.6% to 50.8%. This proves that there is a weak bond between Naafiri and Diana that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Diana has a greater difficulty than Naafiri. That means you should be cautious when enlisting Diana teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by bringing Naafiri and Diana together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a lot of utility. Plan to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Diana ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Naafiri in order to pair well with Diana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to use in your Naafiri and Diana synergy build consist of Edge of Night, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Naafiri bought at least these three great items in their build, they performed much better as an ally of Diana than with most other common item sets. In fact, Naafiri had an average win rate of 50.8% when playing alongside Diana with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you 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 rune builds players chose for Naafiri and Diana pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Diana with Naafiri are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to an individual division, you should use the selection menu located at the top of this page.