Naafiri with Rek'Sai
How to Synergize Naafiri and Rek'Sai
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Naafiri Rek'Sai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Naafiri and Rek'Sai
Tips for Playing as Naafiri with Rek'Sai
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Advice to Understand How Rek'Sai Will Play
Keeping tunnels spread out across the map will ensure you have choices when you want to cast Void Rush.
Cast Burrow before travelling around the map to take advantage of the increased Move Speed and the safety provided by Tremor Sense.
Tremor Sense can warn you of enemies closing in, and is particularly useful when entering enemy territory.
Naafiri Rek'Sai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rek'Sai as Naafiri in LoL
The Naafiri Rek'Sai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rek'Sai, 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 Rek'Sai. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Rek'Sai helps Naafiri perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Naafiri plays on the same team as Rek'Sai, they sees a marginal improvement in their full damage dealt. This could indicate that Rek'Sai helps provide cover for them to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Naafiri is played with Rek'Sai 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 Rek'Sai.
Moreover, when Naafiri plays with Rek'Sai on the same side, they usually receives a little less damage than when they fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Rek'Sai does a decent job of protecting Naafiri in teamfights.
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Is Naafiri better when played alongside Rek'Sai?
There is no one best champion pairing for Naafiri that will no matter what be their #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Rek'Sai is a below average companion for Naafiri. By being on the same side as Naafiri, he drops their win rate by -1.3% to 48.9%. This demonstrates that there is a bad strategic relationship between Naafiri and Rek'Sai that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Rek'Sai has a greater difficulty than Naafiri. That means Naafiri players must be very careful when enlisting Rek'Sai comrades to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working together, Naafiri players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Naafiri and Rek'Sai together, you may not be giving your other teammates much magical damage output. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Rek'Sai ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Naafiri in order to work well with Rek'Sai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to get in your Naafiri and Rek'Sai synergy build include Serylda's Grudge, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Naafiri used at least these three great items in their build, they did significantly better when paired up with Rek'Sai than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Naafiri boasted an average win rate of 48.9% helping carry Rek'Sai with these items in their kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, you 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 runes that we analyzed for Naafiri and Rek'Sai pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.9% winrate overall.
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