Across the sands of Shurima, a chorus of howls rings out. It is the call of the dune hounds, voracious predators who form packs and compete for the right to hunt in these barren lands. Among them, one pack stands above all, for they are driven not only by canine instincts, but by the ancient power of the Darkin.
Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
The Naafiri Aatrox synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aatrox, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Naafiri sees a very large drop in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aatrox. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Aatrox helps Naafiri perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Naafiri plays on the same team as Aatrox, they sees a small decrease in their complete damage output. This change could signal that Aatrox doesn't help cover for them to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Naafiri is played alongside Aatrox on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing alongside Aatrox.
Additionally, when Naafiri plays with Aatrox on the same side, they typically takes a little less damage than when they fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Aatrox does a decent job of covering Naafiri during teamfights.
There is no perfect companion for Naafiri that will always be their #1 teammate. However, Aatrox is a below average companion for Naafiri. By locking into the same side as Naafiri, he drops their win rate by -1.3% to 48.9%. This shows that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Naafiri and Aatrox that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Aatrox has a greater difficulty than Naafiri. That means Naafiri players should be careful when finding Aatrox allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working alongside, Naafiri players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by bringing Naafiri and Aatrox together, you may not be giving your side much magic damage. Plan to include other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Aatrox ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Naafiri in order to pair well with Aatrox during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to prioritize in your Naafiri and Aatrox synergy build consist of Guardian Angel, Serylda's Grudge, and Profane Hydra. When Naafiri used at least these three pieces in their build, they did significantly better when fighting alongside Aatrox than with many other common item sets. In fact, Naafiri had an average win rate of 48.9% when synergizing their build and playstyle to Aatrox with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, Naafiri players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.9% win rate overall.
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