Naafiri with Lucian
How to Synergize Naafiri and Lucian
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Naafiri Lucian Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Naafiri and Lucian
Tips for Playing as Naafiri with Lucian
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Naafiri Lucian Synergy Stats
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The Naafiri Lucian synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lucian, 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 Lucian. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Lucian helps Naafiri perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Naafiri is paired with Lucian, they sees a small increase in their full damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Lucian supports by providing protection for them to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Naafiri is played with Lucian on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing alongside Lucian.
Additionally, when Naafiri plays with Lucian on the same team, they on average receives a little more damage than when they fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Lucian does a poor job of protecting Naafiri in team fights.
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Is Naafiri better when played alongside Lucian?
There is no perfect companion for Naafiri that will 100% of the time be their top synergy. However, overall, Lucian is a not very good ally for Naafiri. By locking into the same team as Naafiri, he decreases their win rate by -2.8% to 47.4%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad synergy between Naafiri and Lucian that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Lucian has a much greater difficulty compared to Naafiri. That means you need to be cautious when enlisting Lucian comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing on the same side, Naafiri players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by bringing Naafiri and Lucian together, you will not be providing your other teammates much AP. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Lucian teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should 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 Lucian during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Naafiri and Lucian synergy build include Serylda's Grudge, Axiom Arc, and Profane Hydra. When Naafiri bought at least these three pieces in their build, they performed much better when paired up with Lucian than with many other typical builds. In fact, Naafiri boasted an average winrate of 47.4% when playing alongside Lucian with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, Naafiri players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Lucian with Naafiri are displayed for all skill levels combined. If you would like to filter the stats and builds to a distinct skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.