Naafiri with Caitlyn
How to Synergize Naafiri and Caitlyn
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Naafiri Caitlyn Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Naafiri and Caitlyn
Tips for Playing as Naafiri with Caitlyn
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Advice to Understand How Caitlyn Will Play
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
Naafiri Caitlyn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Caitlyn as Naafiri in LoL
The Naafiri Caitlyn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Caitlyn, 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 large worsening in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Caitlyn. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Caitlyn helps Naafiri perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Naafiri is paired with Caitlyn, they observes a barely noticable drop in their total damage output. This could indicate that Caitlyn does not provide cover for them to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Naafiri is played together with Caitlyn on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays without Caitlyn. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing with Caitlyn.
Additionally, when Naafiri plays with Caitlyn on the same team, they on average receives a little less damage than when they plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Caitlyn does a decent job of protecting Naafiri in teamfights.
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Is Naafiri better when played alongside Caitlyn?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Naafiri that will always be their #1 ally. Yet, Caitlyn is a very typical companion for Naafiri. By being on the same team as Naafiri, she decreases their win rate by -0.3% to 49.9%. This proves that there is only a small strategic relationship between Naafiri and Caitlyn that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Caitlyn has a much greater difficulty compared to Naafiri. That means Naafiri players should be cautious when enlisting Caitlyn allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Naafiri and Caitlyn together, you will not be giving your team a lot of AP. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Caitlyn teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Naafiri in order to pair well with Caitlyn during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Naafiri and Caitlyn synergy build consist of Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Axiom Arc. When Naafiri incorporated at least these three finished items in their build, they did much better when fighting alongside Caitlyn than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Naafiri had an average winrate of 49.9% helping carry Caitlyn with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Naafiri players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Naafiri and Caitlyn pairings, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.9% win rate overall.
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