Naafiri with Hecarim
How to Synergize Naafiri and Hecarim
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Naafiri Hecarim Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Naafiri and Hecarim
Tips for Playing as Naafiri with Hecarim
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Advice to Understand How Hecarim Will Play
Devastating Charge deals more damage based on the distance traveled. Try using Onslaught of Shadows or Summoner Spells such as Ghost or Flash to maximize this damage.
Spirit of Dread restores Health when nearby enemies take damage, including damage dealt by allies. Cast this during a large fight to maximize Hecarim's survivability.
Naafiri Hecarim Synergy Stats
How to Play with Hecarim as Naafiri in LoL
The Naafiri Hecarim synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Hecarim, 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 Hecarim. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Hecarim helps Naafiri perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Naafiri is paired with Hecarim, they observes a small decrease in their total damage output. This may indicate that Hecarim does not support by providing cover for them to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Naafiri is played together with Hecarim on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays without Hecarim. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing alongside Hecarim.
Moreover, when Naafiri plays with Hecarim on the same team, they typically receives a little less damage than when they fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Hecarim does a decent job of covering Naafiri during teamfights.
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Is Naafiri better when played alongside Hecarim?
There is no perfect ally for Naafiri that will no matter what be their ideal ally. Yet, overall, Hecarim is a below average ally for Naafiri. By playing on the same side as Naafiri, he drops their win rate by -2.7% to 47.5%. This demonstrates that there is a negative bond between Naafiri and Hecarim that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Hecarim has a much greater difficulty compared to Naafiri. That means you need to be very careful when enlisting Hecarim teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much greater level of skill to do well with you.
Working cooperatively, Naafiri players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by grouping Naafiri and Hecarim together, you will not be giving your other teammates very much magical damage output. Make sure to include other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Hecarim teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Naafiri to work well with Hecarim during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Naafiri and Hecarim synergy build consist of Edge of Night, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Naafiri used at least these three finished items in their build, they performed much better when fighting alongside Hecarim than with many other common builds. In fact, Naafiri boasted an average winrate of 47.5% when playing alongside Hecarim with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing 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. Of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.5% winrate overall.
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