Kai'Sa vs Naafiri
How to Beat Naafiri as Kai'Sa
based on 2,027 Kai'Sa vs Naafiri matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kai'Sa vs Naafiri Matchup Summary
Best Kai'Sa vs Naafiri Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Naafiri as Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa against Naafiri
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
Kai'Sa vs Naafiri Counter Stats
How to Counter Naafiri with Kai'Sa in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight some valuable Kai'Sa versus Naafiri counter stats that may help us distinguish the differences between the two. For instance, Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Naafiri’s ratio of NaN, showing that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Naafiri..
Kai'Sa normally has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Naafiri. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kai'Sa and Naafiri
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Who is Better, Kai'Sa or Naafiri?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kai'Sa usually loses when facing off against Naafiri, with a 45.5% win rate. Thus, Kai'Sa makes a bad counter to Naafiri.
While Kai'Sa does have a much lower winrate compared to Naafiri, when they face off with one another, Kai'Sa also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Kai'Sa into Naafiri.
Moreover, Kai'Sa also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Naafiri. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa vs Naafiri matchups, Naafiri is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Kai'Sa is a trash counter for Naafiri. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kai'Sa against Naafiri.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Kai'Sa in order to counter Naafiri during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa most often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Naafiri. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Kai'Sa versus Naafiri build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Kraken Slayer. When Kai'Sa combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better versus Naafiri than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Kai'Sa had an average win rate of 45.5% when countering Naafiri with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating Naafiri as Kai'Sa, Kai'Sa players should take the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Kai'Sa vs Naafiri LoL games, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 45.5% winrate overall.
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