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Don't go in first to a large teamfight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Tumble has many uses, but it cannot pass over walls.
Condemn can be used to both pin targets to walls to ensure a kill, or to escape a pursuer.
The Naafiri Vayne synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vayne, 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 Vayne. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Vayne helps Naafiri perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Naafiri is paired with Vayne, they gets a little drop in their total damage dealt. This difference could signal that Vayne does not support by providing protection for them to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Naafiri is played alongside Vayne on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing alongside Vayne.
Moreover, when Naafiri plays with Vayne on the same team, they usually takes a little less damage than when they plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Vayne does a decent job of covering Naafiri during teamfights.
There is no perfect ally for Naafiri that will 100% of the time be their #1 ally. However, Vayne is a very typical teammate for Naafiri. By locking into the same team as Naafiri, she drops their win rate by -0.3% to 49.9%. This shows that there is a weak synergy between Naafiri and Vayne that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Vayne has a much greater difficulty compared to Naafiri. That means Naafiri players must be cautious when enlisting Vayne comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much higher level of skill to do well with you.
Working alongside, Naafiri players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by aligning Naafiri and Vayne together, you probably will not be giving your team enough magic damage. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Vayne ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Naafiri in order to pair well with Vayne during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to build first in your Naafiri and Vayne synergy build include Serylda's Grudge, Profane Hydra, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Naafiri included at least these three finished items in their build, they did a lot better when paired up with Vayne than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Naafiri boasted an average winrate of 49.9% when synergizing their build and playstyle to Vayne with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use 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 combinations that we analyzed for Naafiri and Vayne pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Vayne with Naafiri are presented for all ranked divisions. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.