Naafiri with Leona
How to Synergize Naafiri and Leona
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Naafiri Leona Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Naafiri and Leona
Tips for Playing as Naafiri with Leona
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Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Naafiri Leona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Leona as Naafiri in LoL
The Naafiri Leona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Leona, 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 Leona. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Leona helps Naafiri perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Naafiri is an ally to Leona, they observes a marginal improvement in their total damage dealt. This change could indicate that Leona helps provide protection for them to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Naafiri is played together with Leona 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 synergisticly with Leona.
Additionally, when Naafiri plays with Leona on the same side, they on average takes a little less damage than when they plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Leona does a decent job of covering Naafiri in teamfights.
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Is Naafiri better when played alongside Leona?
There is no ideal ally for Naafiri that will no matter what be their best ally. However, Leona is a good teammate for Naafiri. By being on the same side as Naafiri, she improves their win rate by 1.1% to 51.3%. This signals that there is a good bond between Naafiri and Leona that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Leona has a greater difficulty than Naafiri. That means Naafiri players must be cautious when finding Leona comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Playing on the same side, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to support your allies. When paired, these champions should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Conversely, by aligning Naafiri and Leona together, you will not be granting your team a lot of AP. Make sure to have other champions on your team that offsets this gap in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Leona ally, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Naafiri to work well with Leona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to have in your Naafiri and Leona synergy build include Serylda's Grudge, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Naafiri included at least these three finished items in their build, they did significantly better when paired up with Leona than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Naafiri had an average win rate of 51.3% helping carry Leona with these items in their kit.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you 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 rune sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.3% win rate overall.
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