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.
Shadow Assault is a powerful escape tool, but can also be offensively used to assault a group.
You can use Assassin's Path to get behind the enemy and set up for Noxian Diplomacy's melee attack.
Remember to pick your target before the fight. Focusing all of Talon's abilities on one target can be very rewarding, but splitting them up between many may leave you helpless.
The Naafiri Talon synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Talon, 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 Talon. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Talon helps Naafiri perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Naafiri tries to synergize with Talon, they observes a marginal improvement in their full damage output. This change could demonstrate that Talon supports by providing cover for them to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Naafiri is played with Talon 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 with Talon.
Moreover, when Naafiri plays with Talon on the same team, they on average receives more damage than when they fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Talon does a poor job of covering Naafiri in team fights.
There is no top companion for Naafiri that will 100% of the time be their top synergy. However, Talon is a very bad teammate for Naafiri. By playing on the same side as Naafiri, he decreases their win rate by -9.7% to 40.5%. This shows that there is a terrible bond between Naafiri and Talon that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Talon has a much greater difficulty compared to Naafiri. That means Naafiri players should be cautious when enlisting Talon comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to play well with you.
When playing together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by aligning Naafiri and Talon together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates enough AP. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Talon teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Naafiri to pair well with Talon during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to have in your Naafiri and Talon synergy build consist of Serylda's Grudge, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Naafiri used at least these three pieces in their build, they performed much better when fighting alongside Talon than with most other common builds. In fact, Naafiri boasted an average win rate of 40.5% when playing alongside Talon with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against 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 runes players picked for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 40.5% win rate overall.
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