Every time a brand new champion will get added to League of Legends, there’s all the time a little bit of a transitional interval because the participant base will get used to the most recent addition to the roster. More often than not, that new addition struggles to place up strong numbers, normally as a consequence of a mix of inexperienced gamers attempting their hand on the champion, in addition to Riot Video games making steadiness adjustments based mostly on a small pattern measurement early into the champion’s lifespan.
We noticed this phenomenon happen final fall when Ok’sante spawned onto the Rift and instantly struggled to achieve any momentum, and now, we’re seeing it once more with Naafiri.
Simply over three days into the champion’s existence, Naafiri jungle is the worst choose within the sport in high-level solo queue, based on League stats web site U.GG. The solo queue win price monitoring web site acknowledges 226 mixtures of champions and positions, and sure champions, together with Naafiri, have sufficient information to warrant a number of listings in a number of positions.
Out of all 226 champion-position mixtures within the sport, Naafiri jungle clocks in with the 226th-best win price. The murderer’s video games on the jungle place are presently lifeless final, with a win price of 40.69 p.c in video games performed at Emerald rank and above, based on U.GG. For reference, her mid lane win price ranks 161st.
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Though Naafiri will be performed as a jungler and mid laner, the champion has just a few extra video games performed at mid lane on the brand new patch (simply over a distinction of 1,000 video games), so it’s nonetheless comparatively debatable what her “foremost” place truly is. Whereas it’s trending towards the mid lane, Naafiri jungle nonetheless has a excessive sufficient pattern measurement the place it’s price diving into the stats. So far as her efficiency within the mid lane goes, Naafiri holds a less-than-impressive 48.85 p.c win price—which remains to be miles higher than the just-above-40 p.c win price that she’s seeing within the jungle.
Transferring ahead, it’s attainable (if not completely seemingly) that gamers will depart Naafiri jungle within the mud and prioritize her as a mid lane murderer; few new champions preserve prominence in a couple of place lengthy after launch, anyway. If Naafiri’s 40 p.c win price is any indicator of her potential as a jungler, it could be evident that her jungling capabilities may have a buff or two. She did receive a series of nerfs in a hotfix on July 21 that harm a few of her core talents and dropped her mid lane win price by six share factors over the past 48 hours.
We count on Naafiri to be constantly buffed and nerfed over the following few patches, as is the case with most new champions.
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