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The Naafiri Qiyana synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Qiyana, 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 Qiyana. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Qiyana helps Naafiri perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Naafiri is paired with Qiyana, they gets a moderate decrease in their complete damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Qiyana does not help cover for them to deal more damage or that her presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Naafiri is played alongside Qiyana on the same side, 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 Qiyana.
Additionally, when Naafiri plays with Qiyana on the same side, they often receives a little more damage than when they plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Qiyana does a poor job of protecting Naafiri in teamfights.
There is no top companion for Naafiri that will always be their top synergy. However, overall, Qiyana is a very bad companion for Naafiri. By locking into the same team as Naafiri, she decreases their win rate by -5.2% to 45.0%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Naafiri and Qiyana that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Qiyana has a much greater difficulty compared to Naafiri. That means Naafiri players must be careful when enlisting Qiyana comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much higher level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by pairing Naafiri and Qiyana together, you may not be granting your side enough magic damage. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Qiyana teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Naafiri in order to pair well with Qiyana during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to get in your Naafiri and Qiyana synergy build include Serylda's Grudge, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Naafiri incorporated at least these three finished items in their build, they performed much better when fighting alongside Qiyana than with many other common item sets. In fact, Naafiri had an average winrate of 45.0% when playing alongside Qiyana with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing 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. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 45.0% winrate overall.
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