Katarina with Naafiri
How to Synergize Katarina and Naafiri
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Katarina Naafiri Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Naafiri Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Naafiri
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Naafiri
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Advice to Understand How Naafiri Will Play
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Katarina Naafiri Synergy Stats
How to Play with Naafiri as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina Naafiri synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Naafiri, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Katarina sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Naafiri. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Naafiri helps Katarina perform worse in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Katarina plays on the same team as Naafiri, she observes a little decrease in her total damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Naafiri does not support by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that their support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played alongside Naafiri on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Naafiri.
Moreover, when Katarina plays with Naafiri on the same side, she typically takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Naafiri does a poor job of protecting Katarina in team fights.
Synergies between Katarina and Naafiri
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Naafiri?
There is no one best companion for Katarina that will no matter what be her #1 ally. However, Naafiri is a very bad teammate for Katarina. By playing on the same team as Katarina, they drops their win rate by -3.1% to 45.7%. This signals that there is a terrible bond between Katarina and Naafiri that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Naafiri has a much lower diffuclty than Katarina. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Naafiri allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by pairing Katarina and Naafiri together, you may not be providing your other teammates a great deal of support. Make sure to have other champs on your team that fills this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Naafiri ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Katarina in order to work well with Naafiri during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to use in your Katarina and Naafiri synergy build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Katarina combined at least these three items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Naafiri than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average winrate of 45.7% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Naafiri with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 45.7% winrate overall.
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