Kassadin with Naafiri
How to Synergize Kassadin and Naafiri
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Kassadin Naafiri Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kassadin and Naafiri
Tips for Playing as Kassadin with Naafiri
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
Advice to Understand How Naafiri Will Play
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Kassadin Naafiri Synergy Stats
How to Play with Naafiri as Kassadin in LoL
The Kassadin 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, Kassadin sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Naafiri. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Naafiri helps Kassadin perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kassadin is an ally to Naafiri, he gets a little drop in his total damage dealt. This difference may signal that Naafiri does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that their participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Kassadin is played together with Naafiri on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Naafiri. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Naafiri.
Moreover, when Kassadin plays with Naafiri on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Naafiri does a decent job of covering Kassadin in teamfights.
Synergies between Kassadin and Naafiri
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Is Kassadin better when played alongside Naafiri?
There is no top companion for Kassadin that will always be his ideal teammate. Yet, Naafiri is a terrible ally for Kassadin. By being on the same side as Kassadin, they lowers their win rate by -9.9% to 40.1%. This clearly indicates that there is a terrible bond between Kassadin and Naafiri that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Naafiri has a much lower diffuclty than Kassadin. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Naafiri teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Kassadin and Naafiri together, you will not be giving your team very much AP. Make sure to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Naafiri ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Kassadin in order to pair well with Naafiri during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to use in your Kassadin and Naafiri synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Malignance, and Rod of Ages. When Kassadin incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Naafiri than with many other typical builds. In fact, Kassadin had an average winrate of 40.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Naafiri with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Kassadin and Naafiri pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 40.1% win rate overall.
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