Naafiri with Katarina
How to Synergize Naafiri and Katarina
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Naafiri Katarina Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Naafiri and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Naafiri with Katarina
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Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Naafiri Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Naafiri in LoL
The Naafiri Katarina synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Katarina, 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 Katarina. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Katarina helps Naafiri perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Naafiri plays on the same team as Katarina, they observes a noticable drop in their complete damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Katarina doesn't help cover for them to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Naafiri is played together with Katarina on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays without Katarina. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing alongside Katarina.
Moreover, when Naafiri plays with Katarina on the same team, they usually receives more damage than when they plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Katarina does a poor job of covering Naafiri in team fights.
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Is Naafiri better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no top champion pairing for Naafiri that will no matter what be their #1 synergy. However, overall, Katarina is a very bad companion for Naafiri. By playing on the same side as Naafiri, she decreases their win rate by -4.5% to 45.7%. This shows that there is a terrible bond between Naafiri and Katarina that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Katarina has a much greater difficulty compared to Naafiri. That means you must be careful when enlisting Katarina teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Naafiri and Katarina together, you may not be granting your team very much utility. Plan to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Katarina ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should 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 in order to pair well with Katarina during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to use in your Naafiri and Katarina synergy build consist of Serylda's Grudge, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Naafiri included at least these three finished items in their build, they did a lot better when fighting alongside Katarina than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Naafiri had an average win rate of 45.7% helping carry Katarina with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 45.7% winrate overall.
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