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The Soraka Naafiri synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Naafiri, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Soraka sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Naafiri. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Naafiri helps Soraka perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Soraka plays on the same team as Naafiri, she observes a small increase in her full damage dealt. This difference could signal that Naafiri helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that their allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Soraka is played together with Naafiri on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Naafiri.
Moreover, when Soraka plays with Naafiri on the same side, she on average takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Naafiri does a decent job of covering Soraka in team fights.
There is no ideal synergy for Soraka that will always be her top ally. However, Naafiri is a very typical teammate for Soraka. By locking into the same team as Soraka, they drops their win rate by -0.7% to 48.7%. This shows that there is only a small synergy between Soraka and Naafiri that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Naafiri has a lower difficulty than Soraka. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Naafiri comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Working cooperatively, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide utility and CC for your side. Together, these champions will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Conversely, by grouping Soraka and Naafiri together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates enough AP. Plan to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Naafiri ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Soraka to synergize with Naafiri during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to focus on in your Soraka and Naafiri synergy build consist of Ardent Censer, Dream Maker, and Moonstone Renewer. When Soraka used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Naafiri than with many other typical builds. In fact, Soraka had an average winrate of 48.7% when playing alongside Naafiri with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Naafiri with Soraka are shown for all skill levels, merged. To filter the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.