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Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
The Naafiri Poppy synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Poppy, 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 Poppy. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Poppy helps Naafiri perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Naafiri is paired with Poppy, they sees a marginal improvement in their complete damage output. This change could demonstrate that Poppy supports by providing cover for them to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Naafiri is played together with Poppy 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 synergisticly with Poppy.
Additionally, when Naafiri plays with Poppy on the same side, they usually takes a little more damage than when they plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Poppy does a poor job of covering Naafiri in teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best companion for Naafiri that will 100% of the time be their #1 ally. Yet, Poppy is a below average companion for Naafiri. By playing on the same side as Naafiri, she decreases their win rate by -3.0% to 47.2%. This signals that there is a bad strategic relationship between Naafiri and Poppy that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Poppy has a much greater difficulty compared to Naafiri. That means Naafiri players must be careful when finding Poppy comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Naafiri players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by grouping Naafiri and Poppy together, you will not be providing your other allies much magic damage. Plan to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Poppy teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Naafiri to work well with Poppy 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 pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Naafiri and Poppy synergy build include Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Profane Hydra. When Naafiri bought at least these three items in their build, they did significantly better as an ally of Poppy than with most other common item sets. In fact, Naafiri boasted an average winrate of 47.2% when playing alongside Poppy with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Naafiri players should take 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 builds players chose for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Poppy with Naafiri are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a particular division, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.