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The Naafiri Taliyah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Taliyah, 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 Taliyah. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Taliyah helps Naafiri perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Naafiri tries to synergize with Taliyah, they observes a marginal improvement in their complete damage output. This change may demonstrate that Taliyah helps provide protection for them to dish out more damage or that her support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Naafiri is played with Taliyah on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing alongside Taliyah.
Moreover, when Naafiri plays with Taliyah on the same side, they on average receives a little less damage than when they fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Taliyah does a decent job of protecting Naafiri during team fights.
There is no perfect companion for Naafiri that will no matter what be their best teammate. However, Taliyah is a relatively poor teammate for Naafiri. By being on the same team as Naafiri, she lowers their win rate by -2.3% to 47.9%. This demonstrates that there is a bad bond between Naafiri and Taliyah that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Taliyah has a greater difficulty than Naafiri. That means Naafiri players should be very careful when arranging Taliyah allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Playing alongside, Naafiri players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to soak up damage. Combined, these champs will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by aligning Naafiri and Taliyah together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a lot of magic damage. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Taliyah ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
To truly master Naafiri in order to work well with Taliyah during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to prioritize in your Naafiri and Taliyah synergy build consist of Serylda's Grudge, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Naafiri used at least these three finished items in their build, they performed a lot better as an ally of Taliyah than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Naafiri had an average winrate of 47.9% when playing alongside Taliyah with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest probability 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 rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Taliyah with Naafiri are given for every ranked division. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a distinct rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.