Naafiri with Garen
How to Synergize Naafiri and Garen
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Naafiri Garen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Naafiri and Garen
Tips for Playing as Naafiri with Garen
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Naafiri Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Naafiri in LoL
The Naafiri Garen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Garen, 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 Garen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Garen helps Naafiri perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Naafiri plays on the same team as Garen, they observes a little decrease in their complete damage dealt. This may indicate that Garen doesn't help cover for them to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Naafiri is played with Garen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing with Garen.
Additionally, when Naafiri plays with Garen on the same team, they on average takes a little less damage than when they plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Garen does a decent job of covering Naafiri during team fights.
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Is Naafiri better when played alongside Garen?
There is no top champion pairing for Naafiri that will 100% of the time be their best synergy. However, Garen is a below average companion for Naafiri. By locking into the same side as Naafiri, he drops their win rate by -2.0% to 48.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative bond between Naafiri and Garen that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Garen has a greater difficulty than Naafiri. That means you should be very careful when finding Garen allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting alongside, Naafiri players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by bringing Naafiri and Garen together, you may not be giving your team a great deal of magic damage. Make sure to include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Garen ally, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Naafiri to pair well with Garen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Naafiri and Garen synergy build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Naafiri combined at least these three great items in their build, they did a lot better when fighting alongside Garen than with many other common item sets. In fact, Naafiri had an average win rate of 48.2% when synergizing their build and playstyle to Garen with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Naafiri players should use 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 this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.2% win rate overall.
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