Across the sands of Shurima, a chorus of howls rings out. It is the call of the dune hounds, voracious predators who form packs and compete for the right to hunt in these barren lands. Among them, one pack stands above all, for they are driven not only by canine instincts, but by the ancient power of the Darkin.
The Naafiri Nilah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nilah, 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 Nilah. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Nilah helps Naafiri perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Naafiri is paired with Nilah, they observes a little decrease in their complete damage output. This difference may signal that Nilah doesn't help cover for them to dish out more damage or that their allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Naafiri is played alongside Nilah on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays without Nilah. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing alongside Nilah.
Additionally, when Naafiri plays with Nilah on the same team, they usually takes a little less damage than when they fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Nilah does a decent job of covering Naafiri in team fights.
There is no ideal champion pairing for Naafiri that will 100% of the time be their #1 ally. However, overall, Nilah is a good companion for Naafiri. By locking into the same side as Naafiri, they increases their win rate by 2.8% to 53.0%. This proves that there is a somewhat important bond between Naafiri and Nilah that results in them performing better together than alone.
Nilah has a much greater difficulty compared to Naafiri. That means Naafiri players must be careful when lining up Nilah allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Naafiri and Nilah together, you probably will not be giving your other allies a great deal of magical damage output. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Nilah ally, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
To truly master Naafiri in order to work well with Nilah during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to get in your Naafiri and Nilah synergy build include Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Profane Hydra. When Naafiri used at least these three finished items in their build, they did a lot better when paired up with Nilah than with many other typical builds. In fact, Naafiri had an average win rate of 53.0% helping carry Nilah with these items in their kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, Naafiri players should equip 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 sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 53.0% win rate overall.
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