Naafiri with Kassadin
How to Synergize Naafiri and Kassadin
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Naafiri Kassadin Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Naafiri and Kassadin
Tips for Playing as Naafiri with Kassadin
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Advice to Understand How Kassadin Will Play
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.
Naafiri Kassadin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kassadin as Naafiri in LoL
The Naafiri Kassadin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kassadin, 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 large worsening in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kassadin. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kassadin helps Naafiri perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Naafiri tries to synergize with Kassadin, they gets a pretty big loss in their total damage output. This difference may indicate that Kassadin does not support by providing cover for them to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Naafiri is played together with Kassadin on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays without Kassadin. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing alongside Kassadin.
Additionally, when Naafiri plays with Kassadin on the same side, they usually receives a little more damage than when they plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Kassadin does a poor job of protecting Naafiri during teamfights.
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Is Naafiri better when played alongside Kassadin?
There is no ideal ally for Naafiri that will always be their #1 synergy. However, Kassadin is a very bad ally for Naafiri. By playing on the same side as Naafiri, he drops their win rate by -10.1% to 40.1%. This demonstrates that there is a very bad strategic relationship between Naafiri and Kassadin that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Kassadin has a much greater difficulty compared to Naafiri. That means you need to be cautious when arranging Kassadin allies to fight alongside, as they will need a much greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing alongside, you should witness 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 Naafiri and Kassadin together, you will not be granting your team very much magical damage output. Plan to include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Kassadin ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Naafiri to work well with Kassadin during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to include in your Naafiri and Kassadin synergy build include Eclipse, Serylda's Grudge, and Axiom Arc. When Naafiri used at least these three items in their build, they did significantly better when fighting alongside Kassadin than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Naafiri boasted an average win rate of 40.1% when playing alongside Kassadin with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Transcendence, and Gathering Storm runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 40.1% winrate overall.
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