So something that somewhat hidden with Naafiri and stridebreaker is that if you use stridebreaker during the W (whilst youre flying toward the enemy) on landing the enemy will be slowed by 99% for 3 seconds As of 14.21 the stridebreaker interaction got patched out.
The reason Naafiri is unpopular is because despite Riot's goal to make her an easy and simple Assassin to teach you the assassin play style she is deceptively meticulous due to her passive. While she looks cool as hell and makes you actually feel like a pack of wolves, those dogs are a double edge sword with all the specific ways they can mess you up. Unlike other pet champions the dogs flank the champion in formation, and while that means you can "sort of" position them to block skillshots ot means you sont have fine motor control and they can proc traps loke shrooms even if you are careful. In lane so many mid laners can abuse the dogs, like Malzahar proccing poison and it auto jumps to you for free poke. Zilean is the same woth bombs. Tristana can proc her explosive passive off your dogs so she pushes and gets prio while you lose farm potential and prio. Smolder and Asol get stacks like theyre minions. Irelia is the worst match up because you have free ways to let her dash to you and beat your ass. All in all Naafiri has to play keep away eith her dogs meanwhile some AOE spells can wipe your ultimate and youre left with a wasted spell. Naafiri uses multiplicity as a playstyle, think about Xayah and her feathers. But Xayah can interact eith jer feathers by chosing to use them, place them, recall them, and are untargettable to enemies. Naafiri can not interact with her passive beyond ulting, sometimes in lane you have to literally wait for them to spawn. These arent really horrible facets of her design, theyre just really unique specifics and by the time a player learns all this and struggles they might as well play Talon as an easy mid laner who has no such delicate specificities and is more reliable.
You describing how the lil doggos can fuck you over made me giggle a bit. Since now the Naafiri emoji referring to "Laughing Wolves" meme, makes all the more sense 🤣
i wouldnt say talon is more "Relaible", just easier to grasp. Talon feels more terrible when he's behind than naafiri does since you can always just build bruiser on naafiri and get value out of Q's and her ult is far more impactful even when behind.
Played Naafiri when she first released which was around my birthday, which I thought is a funny coincidence. Been playing her again in this new season and I forgot how much fun she can be
Awesome video and yeah Naafiri can definitely be a jungler, but its kinda like Nocturne where you're more used as a more roaming pick champ not so much a fast clear champ. Naafiri is obviously good at just blowing opponents up, and letting her loose in Jungle frees her up to do just that.
@@corvoyami3192 sure but Nocturne's main power is in his ability to just gank and literally fly in from outta nowhere on to a target and delete them, similar to Naafiri with her W.
You should check out Briar. On the surface she's just an all in machine that either carries or ints. But below the surface there's a huge amount of skill expression in choosing battles and builds, with bruiser, crit, Lethality and even tank all being viable.
I think she is an all in machine that either carries or ints BUT ALSO has a lot of skill expression (even after you get good you still int sometimes XD)
Opportunity is underrated on her, you can use the ms boost you get after a kill + the opportunity speed buff to disappear after what would have normally been a suicidal engage
I love Naafiri. My favourite mid. And also I did 2 pentas on her! And I really don't know why Firi is so unpopular, when she's assassin+bruzzer combined, it's cool design
Try Opportunity first item - Naafiri has great waveclear with q and e already, so the extra damage from hydra isn't super necessary. Opportunity allows for more roaming potential, still provides a decent chunk of AD and Lethality, and lets you escape bad situations a little easier.
support naafiri is underrated imo, umbral glaive gives u the early lethality then u just go cleaver bruiser. great VS hook champions too as you have DOG
The whole reason why I started playing Naafiri is because the SoulFighter skin had such a compelling colour pallette. And then I fell in love with her kit. Now I am obsessed with playing her top for some reason
@soulsemblance3163 Jungle Naafiri is a lot of fun too. I like how healthy her clear is. I don't play ranked a whole lot though so I'm not sure about the elo. Whenever I do play the enemy ranges from Bronze to Diamonds somehow.
She has decent jungle. Her dogs can tank a lot of damage and you can abuse pet damage. Every time your dog hits jungle camp it prolongs your pet overtime damage to 2 more ticks, so you can leave lets say 300-400 hp camp and your dogs + pet will get it. But don't forget that it will work consistently only if you Q camp
Don’t know if they’ve fixed it yet, but there’s a bugged interaction where you could piggyback stridebreaker off her W slow for a 3 second 99% slow for the longest time. I used it with bruiser build.
You didn't mention, if you do a little back step during fights, your dogs will go in front of you and therefore also bock skillshots :) without you committing any spells for that purpose ! Think of it as when you try to dodge trynda's slow or cassio's ult, that little step you make to look the other way for a second, if you do it with naafiri the doggies will move in front of you because they're always trying to be behind you when walking, hence protecting you from incoming skillshots :)!
One thing you didn't mention but really turned me off on this champion is that a lot of your damage is tied to your second Q. However there is a fixed cooldown before you can cast it. If you Q1 right after your W, you will not be able to cast Q2 immediately. By the time you have done your E the opponent can react with whatever mobility they have and you miss Q2 and the kill.
@@ElMarlish hes mainly used to tank and frontline types aka the solo lane of characters so i believe it would be fun to see him learn how to play the opposite type of role hes used to playing ypu do have a point tho
No I have an account for every ROLE not every champ… however it was confusing so I will probably just do it all on 1 account cause I get this comment a lot…
@@lukakadagishvili-s3l You click w and burst combo, then either the enemy dies or you die. The gameplay pattern is pretty basic imo. Also, when the champ came out riot also said that Naafiri is a low skillcap champion, so yes I believe Naafiri is straightforward.
Been playing her the past couple of days. My reasoning for picking her; 1) no one knows what she does because no one plays her and 2) I’m tired of these over sexualizing champs and just wanted to play something different. I’m 9-1 with her and mostly in the jg. It’s been a blast.
Amazing video as always! But theres a bug abusing "mechanic" that i dont believe was patched with Naafiri, Stridebreaker is actually in the bruiser build because Naafiri w applies 99% slow for like half a second, but using Stridebreaker after Naafiri w makes the 99% slow last as long as the Stridebreaker slow (so 99% slow for 2 or 3 seconds idk the exact duration of Stridebreaker slow)
The reason for her low play rate, at least in my opinion, is that she is very straightforward champions like garen and anny and her skill isnt flashy and she isnt meta right now
She's too telegraphed, in higher mmr you just end up having your dash blocked by the support/tank and dying for nothing. In lane she can be decent as a counter pick but she also struggles against passive play, since she can't poke without shoving the wave and her Q 2 makes up a lot of her damage.
Tricks For Naafiri Jg to clear faster 1. Smite sooner cuz QQ do more damage base on missing health 2. Leave the camp sooner than usual and let your dog finish the camp or throw the second Q to finish the camp, your dog will keep attacking camp for 3 sec so just throw Q while you leave to extend that. 3. If you plan to full clear (and you should) don't level up W until level 4 just Put 2 point in Q and 1 in E for most damage output since W deal less damage and have way too long cool down 4.Use E to hop over the wall for shortcut or if you E is not available you can throw Q to camp and your dog will pounce to them and provide vision and you can W to camp for shortcut as well she is capable of jg role it just a bit tricky to do first full clear. Ton of Healing, Mobility to move over the wall, Point and click gap closer, Ult that provide vision for objective stealing. Your dog to tank hit for you. Nah bro don't tell me that doesn't sound like amazing kit for assasin jg
@@EcoreLoL I played a ton of it when naafiri came out, its like Camille supp but more punishing without any sustain. Level 3 power spike it's insane tho
The smurfing isn't cool. Really want to watch this video actually, champion looks cool and your video style looks interesting. I'm going to drop off not even half way in however because it doesn't feel good seeing you 11/0/0 and ruin other peoples game just to smurf for better looking video or something I guess?
First of all this is a nocturne reskin, not a new champion and he is a design dumpsterfire so why we made 2 is beyond me. Aaditionally: there is no sequence of words in the english language more detrimental to game design than "user-friendly assasin". She is not played little enough, and just like her twin sister briar, should be removed from the game.
This is the same new account as all my Mids, I don't make a new one every time its the same account. If that wasn't clear I can definitely try to explain it better in the intro for the future thats my bad
This Viego video better be incredible
Fr bro
He better be recording a lot for it, would be a waste of potential if he wouldnt farm as many clips related to previous Videos as possible
Fr
Oh trust me, it will be
So something that somewhat hidden with Naafiri and stridebreaker is that if you use stridebreaker during the W (whilst youre flying toward the enemy) on landing the enemy will be slowed by 99% for 3 seconds
As of 14.21 the stridebreaker interaction got patched out.
Really? Didnt know that actually
wasnt it a bug they recently fixed?
pentakill as leona is crazy
Huh? It was a wukong
it was wukong who got the penta, her picture just lined up. i thought it was leona who got it at first too lol
LOL weird timing XD
The reason Naafiri is unpopular is because despite Riot's goal to make her an easy and simple Assassin to teach you the assassin play style she is deceptively meticulous due to her passive.
While she looks cool as hell and makes you actually feel like a pack of wolves, those dogs are a double edge sword with all the specific ways they can mess you up. Unlike other pet champions the dogs flank the champion in formation, and while that means you can "sort of" position them to block skillshots ot means you sont have fine motor control and they can proc traps loke shrooms even if you are careful. In lane so many mid laners can abuse the dogs, like Malzahar proccing poison and it auto jumps to you for free poke. Zilean is the same woth bombs. Tristana can proc her explosive passive off your dogs so she pushes and gets prio while you lose farm potential and prio. Smolder and Asol get stacks like theyre minions. Irelia is the worst match up because you have free ways to let her dash to you and beat your ass. All in all Naafiri has to play keep away eith her dogs meanwhile some AOE spells can wipe your ultimate and youre left with a wasted spell. Naafiri uses multiplicity as a playstyle, think about Xayah and her feathers. But Xayah can interact eith jer feathers by chosing to use them, place them, recall them, and are untargettable to enemies. Naafiri can not interact with her passive beyond ulting, sometimes in lane you have to literally wait for them to spawn.
These arent really horrible facets of her design, theyre just really unique specifics and by the time a player learns all this and struggles they might as well play Talon as an easy mid laner who has no such delicate specificities and is more reliable.
You describing how the lil doggos can fuck you over made me giggle a bit. Since now the Naafiri emoji referring to "Laughing Wolves" meme, makes all the more sense 🤣
i wouldnt say talon is more "Relaible", just easier to grasp. Talon feels more terrible when he's behind than naafiri does since you can always just build bruiser on naafiri and get value out of Q's and her ult is far more impactful even when behind.
production quality has gotten sm better keep it up
Ty ty
Love to see the content and editing progression throughout the series, keep it up man!
I love guides and vids like this where people start explaining what runes to run and they jsut list all of the runes in the game
I listed 3 runes and said why I used them…
this video is so well made, shame it doesnt get the views it should, good video ! excited to see the viego video now !
It will don’t worry XD
Played Naafiri when she first released which was around my birthday, which I thought is a funny coincidence. Been playing her again in this new season and I forgot how much fun she can be
I love how the editing assets is like league client's assets, really satisfying to watch 👍
honestly underated content. very well made video and very entertaining
Awesome video and yeah Naafiri can definitely be a jungler, but its kinda like Nocturne where you're more used as a more roaming pick champ not so much a fast clear champ. Naafiri is obviously good at just blowing opponents up, and letting her loose in Jungle frees her up to do just that.
Nocturne's clear is crazy fast wdym?
@@corvoyami3192 sure but Nocturne's main power is in his ability to just gank and literally fly in from outta nowhere on to a target and delete them, similar to Naafiri with her W.
@@ColetheFlame01 nocturnes main power is that he can gank easily WHILE just clearing around the map for maximum gold income.
Nocturn is up there for one of the worst examples you could have given.
You should check out Briar. On the surface she's just an all in machine that either carries or ints. But below the surface there's a huge amount of skill expression in choosing battles and builds, with bruiser, crit, Lethality and even tank all being viable.
I think she is an all in machine that either carries or ints BUT ALSO has a lot of skill expression (even after you get good you still int sometimes XD)
what if when he has mastered every champ viago gets nerfed to the ground or removed
He already gets a nerf next patch
why would he be removed
if yuumi didn't get removed, no one will bro
I would cry and retire…
Opportunity is underrated on her, you can use the ms boost you get after a kill + the opportunity speed buff to disappear after what would have normally been a suicidal engage
blud was the hearthstone goat, and is now reforming to league GOAT
I love Naafiri. My favourite mid. And also I did 2 pentas on her!
And I really don't know why Firi is so unpopular, when she's assassin+bruzzer combined, it's cool design
I don't play her as often because I feel bad popping off as her every game. Even when your team lose, you'd still be popping off
Horrible username and it really tells me everything I need to know about you. No wonder you like Naafiri...
Try Opportunity first item - Naafiri has great waveclear with q and e already, so the extra damage from hydra isn't super necessary. Opportunity allows for more roaming potential, still provides a decent chunk of AD and Lethality, and lets you escape bad situations a little easier.
hell yea, naafiri vid 🔥🔥🙏🙏
As 1 of the 3 people who play naafiri i like to w and then use e to jump either behind or beside the enemy before doing double q or q attack q
But the first Q is so easy after 2. I feel like if you flip to another side you can mess up sometimes
1:35 dude I LITERALLY played my first game on naafiri, inted the hell out of my game and then carried like a god
Ive found my main
Ah, Naafiri, my beloved. Very fun champ.
The Bruiser build is so much better this patch.
Cause if you play full lethality, if you don't one shot the bruiser/tank/adc just kinda win.
Naafiri is definitely one of my favorite champions
Nafiri manages to make the herald's eye open very quickly
support naafiri is underrated imo, umbral glaive gives u the early lethality then u just go cleaver bruiser. great VS hook champions too as you have DOG
The whole reason why I started playing Naafiri is because the SoulFighter skin had such a compelling colour pallette. And then I fell in love with her kit.
Now I am obsessed with playing her top for some reason
What about jungle? And what elo do you usually pick her in?
@soulsemblance3163 Jungle Naafiri is a lot of fun too. I like how healthy her clear is. I don't play ranked a whole lot though so I'm not sure about the elo. Whenever I do play the enemy ranges from Bronze to Diamonds somehow.
All those skins are awesome
ayo you better give the best viego video
She has decent jungle. Her dogs can tank a lot of damage and you can abuse pet damage. Every time your dog hits jungle camp it prolongs your pet overtime damage to 2 more ticks, so you can leave lets say 300-400 hp camp and your dogs + pet will get it. But don't forget that it will work consistently only if you Q camp
Don’t know if they’ve fixed it yet, but there’s a bugged interaction where you could piggyback stridebreaker off her W slow for a 3 second 99% slow for the longest time. I used it with bruiser build.
Yeah I specifically DIDNT use that (I did 1 game to see and I only did it 1 time in that game. Don’t wanna get in trouble promoting a bug)
I didnt even watch the video yet but i know it will be a banger.
Thank you so much
@@EcoreLoL No problem, keep up the good work!
Would love to see you play Akali soon!
You were really good with naafiri but you should also try jhin for the series (he for some reason is broken and does tons of dmg)
I will play them all eventually don’t worry (so many champs to play…)
"Into lethality items like Serylda's Grudge"
😢
Well it used to be then it was reworked XD
You didn't mention, if you do a little back step during fights, your dogs will go in front of you and therefore also bock skillshots :) without you committing any spells for that purpose ! Think of it as when you try to dodge trynda's slow or cassio's ult, that little step you make to look the other way for a second, if you do it with naafiri the doggies will move in front of you because they're always trying to be behind you when walking, hence protecting you from incoming skillshots :)!
Oh that’s true cause they always are behind you you can flip them around
One thing you didn't mention but really turned me off on this champion is that a lot of your damage is tied to your second Q. However there is a fixed cooldown before you can cast it. If you Q1 right after your W, you will not be able to cast Q2 immediately. By the time you have done your E the opponent can react with whatever mobility they have and you miss Q2 and the kill.
It turned you off that champion has counterplay?
That’s true… but it’s pretty easy as long as they don’t have flash and you can use your E to make it easier with a dash…
i started playing this game a week ago and picked up naafiri because knifedog
so thanks for the video! it’s pretty nice to help learn them!
How many champions you need before the Viego video ?
All of them
So SO MANYYYYY
Liked the Blawg so much bro took 15 hours instead of 10
Would love to see a Zed video!!
Didn't he make one already?
It’s in 2 videos
the Dogo journey!
naafiri my beloved
dude the dog puns..
would you be able to do seraphine next :3
nvm she got killed with the nerfs lol dont want u to suffer
There isn't much to learn about her, she's just a pretty basic and straightforward annoying ranged mage xd
@@ElMarlish hes mainly used to tank and frontline types aka the solo lane of characters so i believe it would be fun to see him learn how to play the opposite type of role hes used to playing ypu do have a point tho
@@Kincei Thats fair enough but there are more fun champs than seraphine :)
Naafiri is such a cool champ
unrelated, and not meant to be rude, but i feel like youd do a great kermit the frog impression
LOL never tried. I usually get “Mickey Mouse”
Very cool video
Everytime you play a new character you create a new account? So you play youre casual games against bad player?
yeah but he uses completely new champions everytime so besides general game knowledge he's not far above their level. not like he's champ anyways
No I have an account for every ROLE not every champ… however it was confusing so I will probably just do it all on 1 account cause I get this comment a lot…
is the viego vid ever coming
2 years probably (there are a LOT of champs AND new ones coming out and reworks all the time XD)
Well, she is a Darkin lore wise, her power level.is godlike.
And since she is the Pack, she is a one dog Army.
I think its time for a less straightforward champion like bard or Azir!
Love these videos btw!!!
naafiri is straightforward?
@@lukakadagishvili-s3l You click w and burst combo, then either the enemy dies or you die. The gameplay pattern is pretty basic imo. Also, when the champ came out riot also said that Naafiri is a low skillcap champion, so yes I believe Naafiri is straightforward.
@@buzaspeter6960 agreed
@@buzaspeter6960 👍🏻
Plz next go talon mid he super fun
With ur combo wait for ur second q to see if they flash
True you don’t gotta do it instantly XD
Been playing her the past couple of days. My reasoning for picking her; 1) no one knows what she does because no one plays her and 2) I’m tired of these over sexualizing champs and just wanted to play something different.
I’m 9-1 with her and mostly in the jg. It’s been a blast.
Can you play yone please
4:20 i despise the amount of skillshots that naafiri can block with her dogs, completely unplayable if ur playing ezreal
same thing with asol you can never get the q burst you can only deal 50% dmg because there's more then one target
Love naafiri, but every time I play her I get put against a fizz, and it lowkey drives me insane.
Dude I love naafiri my main
Amazing video as always! But theres a bug abusing "mechanic" that i dont believe was patched with Naafiri, Stridebreaker is actually in the bruiser build because Naafiri w applies 99% slow for like half a second, but using Stridebreaker after Naafiri w makes the 99% slow last as long as the Stridebreaker slow (so 99% slow for 2 or 3 seconds idk the exact duration of Stridebreaker slow)
I chose not to use it (I did 1 time but didn’t show it and only did it 1 time not for the whole game. Didn’t want to abuse it)
I told you a year ago that I'm not subscribing until you do the Zoe video. How long am I gonna have to wait my guy?
pls try aurelion sol
The reason for her low play rate, at least in my opinion, is that she is very straightforward champions like garen and anny and her skill isnt flashy and she isnt meta right now
She's too telegraphed, in higher mmr you just end up having your dash blocked by the support/tank and dying for nothing. In lane she can be decent as a counter pick but she also struggles against passive play, since she can't poke without shoving the wave and her Q 2 makes up a lot of her damage.
Naafiri jg is waaay better if you play with the Hydra biuld, the clear speed is actually rlly insane
Interesting. Like I said I only played it 1 time but maybe ill do it in my “off meta” series
Next akali pls...
Naafiri use Hail of Blades very good
nafiri clear is slow bc her dog take aggro and you can t control them like elise so you can t kite camps
Oh that makes sense actually. That was an issue
I just find electrocute gets more value then first strike
Interesting. I think it’s fine but falls off later but that’s just me
Nunu and willump next i just know it
DO ZOE, ZOE PLEASE PLEASE IM BEGGING PLEASEEEEEEEEE
Try her jungle trust me
Tricks For Naafiri Jg to clear faster
1. Smite sooner cuz QQ do more damage base on missing health
2. Leave the camp sooner than usual and let your dog finish the camp or throw the second Q to finish the camp, your dog will keep attacking camp for 3 sec so just throw Q while you leave to extend that.
3. If you plan to full clear (and you should) don't level up W until level 4 just Put 2 point in Q and 1 in E for most damage output since W deal less damage and have way too long cool down
4.Use E to hop over the wall for shortcut or if you E is not available you can throw Q to camp and your dog will pounce to them and provide vision and you can W to camp for shortcut as well
she is capable of jg role it just a bit tricky to do first full clear.
Ton of Healing, Mobility to move over the wall, Point and click gap closer, Ult that provide vision for objective stealing. Your dog to tank hit for you. Nah bro don't tell me that doesn't sound like amazing kit for assasin jg
I want them to add her to mobile bcs I wanna play her so bad
I got dog food ad
LOL maybe I said dog too much XD
I'm sad he didn't think of playing Naafiri supp 😢
played a shton of games back when they cooked on supp item and it was busted
Hm, could be like Camille support
@@EcoreLoL I played a ton of it when naafiri came out, its like Camille supp but more punishing without any sustain. Level 3 power spike it's insane tho
Bro do Vladimir
I do 3:32 @crab full clear lvl 1 solo pull with naafiri. shes fun
Wtf he got raran icon on his desktop 6:25
Might be doing a series with him XD
@@EcoreLoL hello how can you do greatest viego video if chiling smite hit plat
Where is AURORAAAA???
Now that she isn’t pick/ban every game I can maybe play her soon
@@EcoreLoL Thank you ecore 🙏🫡 ill be here till that greatest viego video ever
Wish I could play this game without installing a Chinese rootkit.
Lissandra vid?
Soon still have a few others
No naafiri mains exist for you to follow the same format as your other vids LOL
RaveyDemon
Every Naafiri I ever saw was a feeder. So I was a bit fearful of trying this champ. Now I really want to try her out in a game.
She was actually way more fun then I expected
9th comment saying yone 10 hours when
SAMIRA PLEASEEE
When I get to ADCs. I will play them all eventually don’t worry (so many champs to play…)
what if, naafiri top.....
I tried it and it did pretty well but only like 2 times XD
Down in Ohio swag Like Ohio what the dog doing?
Four levels up on the ADC, proceeds to do expected damage as an assassin in said situation; "What is that damage?!"
Play k sante bro cammon
I mean he was just reworked AGAIN. Don’t wanna make a video just for him to change 3 months later… need him to be more stable XD
ALWAYS BUY HUBRIS
Whoever wants to see Akali press like on this comment
No one plays her cause she’s boring
I think this is the first time I’ve been able to smell someone’s rank
Someone didn’t understand that most champs in this game only have 4 abilities…..
@@stephenrude1272 take a guess let’s see if ur right.
The smurfing isn't cool. Really want to watch this video actually, champion looks cool and your video style looks interesting. I'm going to drop off not even half way in however because it doesn't feel good seeing you 11/0/0 and ruin other peoples game just to smurf for better looking video or something I guess?
First of all this is a nocturne reskin, not a new champion and he is a design dumpsterfire so why we made 2 is beyond me.
Aaditionally: there is no sequence of words in the english language more detrimental to game design than "user-friendly assasin". She is not played little enough, and just like her twin sister briar, should be removed from the game.
You should probably stop making new accounts. Messes with less skilled people.
This is the same new account as all my Mids, I don't make a new one every time its the same account.
If that wasn't clear I can definitely try to explain it better in the intro for the future thats my bad
You should spend 10 hours dating women to prove you’re not gay
Lol
ngl naafiri only good in low ranks
Naafiri win rate in Iron : 47.15 %, gold : 52.75%, diamond : 53.55%, master+ : 56% (source : lolalytics)
That might be true she has a lot of things that can be outplayed (like W block)