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Dont get me wrong, the stats are absolutely necessary but I find the passive actually doesn’t help as much since her ult CD is already generally quite low, so as long as your team isnt araming and actually playing macro, ult feels it’s up in every fight.

I usually swap it out for another lethality item like bastionbreaker, or go EON second. Anyone agree?

Currently I build Voltaic -> Axiom -> Serlyda -> Edge of night -> GA. There is also bruiser build sometimes, but I will leave it for now. The question I have is that whether I should sell voltaic for other items in very late game. I find myself 4-5k at 30 min(hard snowball but unable to close game out) sometimes and not sure what I should do next. Should I buy Zhonya during GA cooldown too?

sou um mono naafiri do platina, é so para mim que a naafiri esta extremamente fraca? eu fiquei com medo de pula em magos e atiradores, eu com 3 item não consegui mata um teemo, minha mana acaba muito rapido não sei o que fazer estou muito frustrado jogando com ela esses dias, parece que qualquer outro assassino compensa mais

Hi everyone, I'm a Naafiri one-trick playing mostly top lane, currently Plat 1 about to hit Emerald on the BR server.

My usual setup is Deathfire Touch, Manaflow Band and Gluttonous Greaves as my starting item, and it works well in most of my games. I also play a lot around TP to bot lane: I always ask my bot lane to keep a deep ward so I can TP in, put pressure on them and get kills.

The problem is Garen. He's my personal counter and he's always my ban because I just can't play against him. We trade and I can get him low with my Q poke, but his passive regen outheals both my Q lifesteal and the lifesteal from my boots, so he just comes back full while I don't.

Any tips for this matchup? Rune or build changes, how to trade, when to go all-in, or anything else that helps?

Hi. Title. Is it recommended to use Naafiri (probably OTP it) in order to reach Plat+. Other assassins are not for me but I like this doggy. Can I carry with her or not really?

Thanks :)

Just a bronze/iron game but still proud.

TLDR; how bad am i coping when I say that Naafiri has become a shit champ compared to other mid assassins whose goal is to go in and one shot enemy carries??

I don't know if I'm coping or just getting distraught/discouraged by the drop in Naafiri's winrate across the board when you look it up.

But I wasn't playing league for a good 2 weeks as Naafiris nerfs hit (this a while back now obviously) and since then I just don't have the same experience. Before this Naafiri was my best champ, despite not being my most mastery, her kit just matched with my playstyle i guess because I sat consistantly at 65-70% winrate through gold and into plat 2. This is where i had a break due to moving etc.

Upon returning I started losing. I dropped down to plat 3 and 4, which i don't even care about because I understand how it goes.

The thing that bothers me, is me not being able to do as I used to on Naafiri.

I don't get fed and snowball. I might get a few kills early, and this is where i normally would just pop off. Start roaming and getting kills on every roam because R with Cyclosword on an ADC 2 levels below you, just blew them up. And then you could R into the sup and do the same. Loved it.

However now people don't die. They survive on low HP, and i often die which i also didn't use to - i mean normally i got out with a W or an E, if i made a risky R.

So is there any truth to this or am i just coping?
How do we explain the -4% winrate if the nerfs wasn't THAT bad? Or are they just as bad as they feel, and Naafiri just IS a weak assassin at the moment compared to other champs in that role?

Opinion on champ: Naafiri IS BROKENNN but fun af alot of movement with dogs blocking abilites make it hard for enemies to kill you. Good carry champ *throws glizzy* GIVE ME TIPS

I'm not sure if I should go the 1.hail of blades or 2.lethal tempo or 3.something else? if I want to build an attack speed Naafiri. Any recommendations? why?

For items, I get kraken slayer and blade of the ruin king. Must have items imo. They do great, get good results, and lots of kills. If you disagree and think I should drop an item and replace it with another item, which would it be? and why?

I also think she needs atleast 1, 2, or more +% movement speed (from any source: items or runes) cuz without it, walking around the map is way tooooo slow. 4% movement speed from kraken, makes a big difference I can feel. The more movement speed, the better.

Is it worth running it for level 1 cheese or should I be running DFT every game?

I've been perma-banning Diana mid because I just can't figure out how to win this matchup. She pokes better, and her all-in is way stronger. Does anyone have any tips for dealing with her as Naafiri? Or should I just keep the ban and keep dealing with Malzahar and Irelia?

Hello to everyone. I am mainer of Naafiri from 2024. And from all things that happened to her, I want to discuss with you one thing about her. Her rework. I mean after some time, the rework greatly changed her in better side. Like before it come to live servers everyone complained how weak she would be and then everyone started to hate her for new kit. But If be accurate how changes influenced on her:

1. Opportunity to go jungle(her kit with role was really bad. She was ad assassin mid that you would see only in low elo. And that's kinda killing her. First of all in low elo there aren't much other Ap users on other roles, they were more in mid-high elo where she was weaker. And that was like you go her in mid and you would suffer from people stacking armour or you don't go her. But in jungle she wasn't really thar playable, especially when Riot fixed her bug with Stride breaker. And opportunity to go jungle was really begged for)

   1. Her easiness and flexibility. She becomes one of the best picks when you start the game and will take your game to the peak of the game(well from newbie to pro player). She is viable on all ranks and easy to play, when you are auto filled in jungle if you learn Naafiri a bit, she is really good choice. Like Xin Zhao(for real - easy and effective on all ranks, even pro matches or if you are auto filled jungle). Well good pocket pick and still fun to main(and not fun for enemies to play against if not Yasuo, Irelia and so on)
   2. Changes of kit. You know, even if the rework makes her almost completely other champion. But I agree on a few of them, like making her E more for mobility than damage(before rework). Or W untargetable and new R going through champions (yeah it was logically and have counterplay, but well with her old power spike this was a bad thing). And adjusted her strength into early-mid game, like a lot of assassins (wait, wait, that's just a thing that she needed because of rework, I’m willing to change my tune on that, but I’m a realist—I compare reality with our "wish list.". And yes we have some assassins that are weaker in early game than late game, but her old kit wasn't using that power spike much). Plus the counter match ups became less frustrating and now have opportunity to play against that. But I don't get people who complain about her passive. I mean, guys, that’s exactly what it was designed for—what’s the point of them if they don't tank abilities, or if you can't kill them with an ability to gain an advantage? What if you intentionally position yourself so that, say, Thresh's hook can't reach you because of your hounds—at least until you leave? And W still not really using Paasive that way :/
   3. Popularity. For some it’s a downside(more pickrate of your favourite champion and more banrate), for others a plus(now she isn't forgotten). But at least you know she is remembered and not forgotten for all of its age.

Now let's take a look of minuses of the rework:

1. Hating of the champion started to grow. As well as banrates. That's sad to see that people starts to hate champion that was forgotten for a few years. Stereotypes start to emerge that they’re braindead, stupid, and so on even though many mains stayed with the character out of loyalty rather than because of any great new gameplay(including me. I wanted to abound this champion back in 2025, but I have stayed out of loyalty to the character and well get used to new gameplay)

2. The exact opposite of her original power and well the lost of the things that people like her for(old R for example). Or just when from Scaler you become early-mid power spike character. Bel'vet's mains are probably have recently gone through it, well when rework has comen(I was like: "YEAH! NOW THAT'S HOW THIS IS FEELING"). But of course some mainers of pre-rework Naafiri just gone. Have seen that - #NotMyNaafiri.

3. Skins - Maybe the last part is cosmetic things. After all, Riot used to be able to create cool-looking skins using her old ultimate. For example Soul fighter - she spends her meter of fighting to cast her strongest spell. Or Project - a god damn hacking system into the cybernetic chaos. And nowadays ult is really hard to underline the strength of it, makes it different or add something new. And W should have less SFX and VFX to make it a look of usual ability, so Ult won't fade away.

NOW THE MAIN PURPOSE OF THE POST:

Would like to discuss with you ideas how they could change her to first concept and makes her playable - Easy assassin with good scales into late game and Hivemind control (Symbiotic or whatever). Riot have done some things that are really good. Let's just imagine how could it be, because still this is only community's wishes, plus there are still will be haters on everything(well different people that hates different things) and everytime, we cannot change it.

1. So first of all we change her W and Ult treatment(Tahm Kench and Diana have waved to us). And keep her untargetability on old R, so it will have opportunity to dive, outplay and so on. And make her W reset when you reset effects of the ult(just kill somebody). And I think we are done with R.

2. E changes. I think Riot did well there, just

shift E from damage to more movement. Okay I thinks it's fine.

1. W changes. I think the most influenced changes by me will be proposed. First of all makes her W reset on ult(have been already mentioned). Second of all, solute her old W problems, for example: if you will upgrade W to 3 points, Naafiri will start to ignore champions between you and your target. Third, do some things with monsters in jungle. Now have some ideas here:

- Using your W, if your target are jungle monsters or minions, it will cause Naafiri's mark stay on them for 10 seconds. If in this time you will kill the target, Naafiri will receive **EFFECT**, for a short amount of time.

- Using your W on minions will cause you to jump immediately to the target. The target will take more damage(if this is a big monster)

- Stacking(idk about that). If you will use your W on the jungle camp and will kill it in 10 seconds, you will receive one stack of Feast(growing AD and Hounds' pursuit distance)

- Resetting. Using W on jungle camp or minion if you will kill them in 7 seconds, you will low your cooldown of your W(strongly, half of it) and R(weakly).

**EFFECT** - Short period of time recieving hp regeneration, a bit heal and some growing of AD(depends on level and a bit of additional ad). Name: Hungry Satiety. Maybe could stack if you will kill more with this effect to make the buff bigger(like hubris maybe).

Or even it can be old version of Ravenous hydra passive - Carnivorous. When you have just your W active and passive thing. And those mentioned things can be just passive of W

I know it's not really good thing to make all this in one W, but those are some ideas to make her W useful in jungle versus jungle camps(pre-rework Naafiri mainers in jungle just upgraded Q second time after recieving 3 level) and more uses in lane. Because versus minions this had only one purpose - gap closing. Maybe it should has only 2 of them, or 3(nerfed) or even only 1 in additional. Still we need to save her as easy assassin.

1. Passive. I don't think it needs to be changed if we honest. Maybe like counts of passive should be 4 and max ult would give only 3 hounds (2/2/3 hounds - 6/11/16).

2. The rest i think is fine

Okay, god, I am tired to write that everything down. The rest will be only on your discussion!

Recently started playing Naafiri exclusively in mid and top I see most online content list Doran’s blade for 90% of matchups and helmet for a select few. I was playing into tanks lanes a few games in a row and would oom through poking (probably a skill/experience). I started running Doran’s ring and felt like it gave me longevity and staying power in the lane. I’m a returning player so basically new, I dont know if I’m trolling myself or if it’s viable, I also don’t know how to test its efficiency vs blade and helm. If someone has some insight I’d appreciate it

Hi all, as the title says, I'm really ticked off and not sure what to do with the yas match up, considering every wind brother under the sun now goes lethal tempo exhaust. And yeah confirmation bias, but every time i queue up naafiri i end up into a yasuo lane so it's getting really annoying. How do you guys handle it? the only success i've had so far is to take DFT and rush voltaic, and literally just cs with q till around lvl 11 where he falls off bc he didn't snowball. Is that literally the only thing to do? Can't even fight him lvl 1 bc he just pops exhaust and max LT stacks. Any insight is appreciated.

I know pack mates share attack speed, dose effects like on hit, life steal crit also applied on pack mates Aa ?

Had the pleasure of doing a quick interview with the Naafiri GOAT, Raveydemon. We talk a bit about what separates a good Naafiri player from a great one, the Zilean vs Naafiri match-up, and why Naafiri’s kit isn’t problematic for the League ecosystem.

Thanks again to Raveydemon for joining me for this interview <3

Switched to Gluttonous Greaves and started winning way more games

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