Naafiri with Irelia
How to Synergize Naafiri and Irelia
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Naafiri Irelia Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Naafiri and Irelia
Tips for Playing as Naafiri with Irelia
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Advice to Understand How Irelia Will Play
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
Naafiri Irelia Synergy Stats
How to Play with Irelia as Naafiri in LoL
The Naafiri Irelia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Irelia, 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 Irelia. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Irelia helps Naafiri perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Naafiri is an ally to Irelia, they observes a noticable drop in their total damage dealt. This change may signal that Irelia does not help cover for them to deal more damage or that her presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Naafiri is played together with Irelia on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays without Irelia. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing with Irelia.
Moreover, when Naafiri plays with Irelia on the same team, they usually takes a little less damage than when they fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Irelia does a decent job of protecting Naafiri during team fights.
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Is Naafiri better when played alongside Irelia?
There is no one best companion for Naafiri that will always be their #1 ally. Yet, overall, Irelia is a very bad teammate for Naafiri. By locking into the same side as Naafiri, she drops their win rate by -4.9% to 45.3%. This proves that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Naafiri and Irelia that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Irelia has a greater difficulty than Naafiri. That means Naafiri players need to be very careful when finding Irelia comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to work well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Naafiri and Irelia together, you probably will not be providing your team a great deal of AP. Make sure to have other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Irelia ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Naafiri in order to pair well with Irelia during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to get in your Naafiri and Irelia synergy build consist of Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Profane Hydra. When Naafiri included at least these three pieces in their build, they performed significantly better when fighting alongside Irelia than with most other common item sets. In fact, Naafiri boasted an average win rate of 45.3% when playing alongside Irelia with these items in their kit.
To have the best chance of beating 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 runes players picked for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 45.3% winrate overall.
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