Shaco with Naafiri
How to Synergize Shaco and Naafiri
based on 1,595 Shaco with Naafiri pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shaco Naafiri Synergy Summary
Best Shaco vs Naafiri Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shaco and Naafiri
Tips for Playing as Shaco with Naafiri
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
Advice to Understand How Naafiri Will Play
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Shaco Naafiri Synergy Stats
How to Play with Naafiri as Shaco in LoL
The Shaco Naafiri synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Naafiri, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Shaco sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Naafiri. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Naafiri helps Shaco perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shaco plays on the same team as Naafiri, he sees a small decrease in his full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Naafiri does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that their presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Shaco is played together with Naafiri on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Naafiri.
Moreover, when Shaco plays with Naafiri on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Naafiri does a decent job of protecting Shaco in team fights.
Synergies between Shaco and Naafiri
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Is Shaco better when played alongside Naafiri?
There is no perfect ally for Shaco that will always be his top teammate. However, overall, Naafiri is a very typical teammate for Shaco. By locking into the same side as Shaco, they lowers their win rate by -0.5% to 48.9%. This signals that there is not really a strong bond between Shaco and Naafiri that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Naafiri has a much lower diffuclty than Shaco. That means Shaco players don't need to be cautious when arranging Naafiri comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by bringing Shaco and Naafiri together, you will not be providing your other teammates very much AP. Plan to pick other champs on your team that offsets this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Naafiri ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Shaco to synergize with Naafiri during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to include in your Shaco and Naafiri synergy build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Shaco combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Naafiri than with many other typical builds. In fact, Shaco had an average winrate of 48.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Naafiri with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, Shaco players should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Shaco and Naafiri pairings, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.9% win rate overall.
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