Lee Sin with Naafiri
How to Synergize Lee Sin and Naafiri
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Lee Sin Naafiri Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Lee Sin and Naafiri
Tips for Playing as Lee Sin with Naafiri
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Advice to Understand How Naafiri Will Play
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Lee Sin Naafiri Synergy Stats
How to Play with Naafiri as Lee Sin in LoL
The Lee Sin 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, Lee Sin sees a very large drop in his 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 Lee Sin perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Lee Sin is an ally to Naafiri, he gets a little decrease in his full damage output. This difference could signal that Naafiri does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that their presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Lee Sin is played alongside 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 Lee Sin plays with Naafiri on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Naafiri does a poor job of covering Lee Sin in team fights.
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Is Lee Sin better when played alongside Naafiri?
There is no one best companion for Lee Sin that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. However, Naafiri is a not very good companion for Lee Sin. By playing on the same team as Lee Sin, they lowers their win rate by -1.3% to 46.0%. This signals that there is a bad strategic relationship between Lee Sin and Naafiri that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Naafiri has a much lower diffuclty than Lee Sin. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Naafiri teammates to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by pairing Lee Sin and Naafiri together, you may not be providing your team very much magic damage. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Naafiri ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Lee Sin in order to pair well with Naafiri during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to include in your Lee Sin and Naafiri synergy build include Black Cleaver, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Lee Sin bought at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Naafiri than with most other typical builds. In fact, Lee Sin boasted an average winrate of 46.0% when playing alongside Naafiri with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.0% winrate overall.
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