By GamGem ResearchLast updated 18 Oct 2026
the Hound of a Hundred Bites
Patch 26.20 · Stats from the 26.18 Master+ sample (3,416 games).
Naafiri, the Hound of a Hundred Bites, fights beside packmates that leap onto whatever she hits, and Hounds' Pursuit sends the whole pack at one champion. Master+ played her in the jungle far more than Mid, mostly on Conqueror, with Voltaic Cyclosword then Black Cleaver as the build bought most. Qiyana, Vi and Kindred gave her the most trouble. She had the better of Sylas.
AssassinFighter
Patch 26.18 · Jungle · Ranked Solo/Duo · Master+ · EUW · KR · NA · 3,416 games · Preview sample
3,416
Games
High
Confidence
Win rate by lane
58.0%Win Rate
Flash
Smite49.2%Win Rate
Flash
Ignite
This exact page: taken in 14.1% of games·48.6% win rate over 481 games.
Gain stacks of adaptive force when attacking enemy champions. After reaching 12 stacks, heal for a portion of damage you deal to champions.
Takedowns restore 5% of your missing health and grant an additional 20 gold.
Takedowns on enemies grant permanent Basic Ability Haste.
Deal more damage to high health enemy champions.
You get free boots at 12 min but you cannot buy boots before then. Each takedown you get makes your boots come 45s sooner.
+18 Summoner Spell Haste+10 Item Haste
Deathfire Touch10.7% taken · 47.0% win366 games
Hail of Blades4.2% taken · 42.8% win145 games
Electrocute1.6% taken · 51.9% win54 gamesPrecision + Inspiration77.8% taken · 48.3% win2,657 games
Sorcery + Precision9.0% taken · 47.7% win308 games
Domination + Sorcery3.9% taken · 44.7% win132 gamesWhich ability to max first, and the level each point goes in — Naafiri's most common path.
QNaafiri hurls up to two daggers, each inflicting bleed, or each inflicting bonus damage if the target is already bleeding.
Cooldown 9/8.5/8/7.5/7s · 50/60/70/80/90 Mana
WNaafiri becomes Untargetable and empowers her pack, spawning additional packmates and gaining increased Move Speed and Attack Damage.
Cooldown 26/24/22/20/18s · 60 Mana
ENaafiri dashes and damages enemies in an area around her, recalling her packmates and fully healing them.
Cooldown 11/10/9/8/7s · 40 Mana
RNaafiri and her packmates dash at a champion, dealing damage.
Cooldown 110/95/80s · 100 ManaMax Q first, then E, then W. Take R whenever available (6 / 11 / 16).
| Ability | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QDarkin Daggers | Q | Q | Q | Q | Q | |||||||||||||
| WThe Call of the Pack | W | W | W | W | W | |||||||||||||
| EEviscerate | E | E | E | E | E | |||||||||||||
| RHounds' Pursuit | R | R | R |
How Naafiri performs against enemy jungle laners
Recommended items by enemy team composition
NaafiriJungle average
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Deny the reset — it wants a kill to come back out; a warded exit removes it
Avoid extended fights — its sustain grows with every trade it survives
Punish the cooldown — Naafiri is exposed while its rotation is down
Ward the flank — vision is what turns its best opening into a worse one
Respect the spike — Riot rates the kit 2/10, so a practised player gets more out of it than the average
PWe Are More
Naafiri spawns packmates that attack the targets of her attacks and abilities.
Passive — never cast
QDarkin Daggers
Naafiri hurls up to two daggers, each inflicting bleed, or each inflicting bonus damage if the target is already bleeding.Packmates leap to attack the first champion or monster hit by this skill.
Cost 50/60/70/80/90 ManaCooldown 9/8.5/8/7.5/7sRange 900
WThe Call of the Pack
Naafiri becomes Untargetable and empowers her pack, spawning additional packmates and gaining increased Move Speed and Attack Damage.
Cost 60 ManaCooldown 26/24/22/20/18sRange 400
EEviscerate
Naafiri dashes and damages enemies in an area around her, recalling her packmates and fully healing them.
Cost 40 ManaCooldown 11/10/9/8/7sRange 450
RHounds' Pursuit
Naafiri and her packmates dash at a champion, dealing damage. Naafiri reveals nearby enemies if she scores a takedown and can recast this Ability once. The second cast grants a shield.
Cost 100 ManaCooldown 110/95/80sRange 900
Riot's notes from patch 25.S1.1 to 26.20 change Naafiri in 8 patches. The latest is patch 26.15, published 2026-07-28.
RThe Call of the Pack
Naafiri remains a hot topic in the meta, both for solo queue and pro play. While we are quite happy with how many people have taken her up since her rework, she’s still on the strong end, especially when she really gets the ball rolling with back-to-back-to-back ultimates.
QDarkin Daggers
RHounds’ Pursuit
Naafiri has been top dog for a while now in both mid and jungle. We are looking to tame some of her power by reducing her damage output a bit.
Base Stats
QDarkin Daggers
EEviscerate
Naafiri is pretty evenly split between mid and jungle now, but is too powerful in mid lane at the moment. We'd like her to still hit as hard when she lands her bread and butter Q and uses her mobility to effectively trade, though right now she can spam a bit too effectively, threatening all-ins and pushing at the same time.
PWe Are More
Naafiri's doing pretty well in the mid lane at the moment but her jungling hasn't kept up so we're giving our favorite pack of dogs more of a fighting chance with her current slow clear.
PWe Are More
We're looking to bring down Naafiri Jungle just a bit more this patch as she's still somewhat overpowered and the most banned champion in the game, while leaving Mid mostly unscathed.
WThe Call of the Pack
EEviscerate
The dawg’s mastery curve continues to climb as players learn the limits of her new kit. We’re targeting generic nerfs to her in both roles, but looking to maintain her as viable in both jungle and mid. Turns out a lot of you know what the dog doin.
Base Stats
PWe Are More
QDarkin Daggers
WThe Call of the Pack
RHounds' Pursuit
Naafiri is the top (jungle) dog after her recent update. Her early game is looking especially dominant, so we're taking down some base stats and clear speed to give her opponents an easier time early on. Jungle is currently looking a bit stronger than mid, so we're buffing her Q waveclear vs. minions to make sure mid Naafiri isn't hit as hard.
Base Stats
PWe Are More
QDarkin Daggers
WThe Call of the Pack
RHound's Pursuit
Naafiri released as a simple to play midlane assassin, but since then has struggled to find an audience. In retrospect, that target was not the ideal version of Naafiri, so we're going back to add some depth and outplay potential to her kit while also opening her up to be played in the jungle as well. To do this, we're swapping her W (Hound's Pursuit) and R (Call of the Pack) Abilities. They've been adjusted to account for their new places in Naafiri's kit . In addition, casting Call of the Pack now makes Naafiri untargetable, making it useful as a situational damage ability or a tool to hold for outplay. Last note, given her pack based theme, it felt like a good opportunity to bump up the presence of her dagger dogs. She'll passively get more of them running around with her as the game progresses and Call of the Pack now provides a non-ultimate way to refresh her pack on demand.
Riot's data lists 5 looks for Naafiri with their own art, the base skin included and 33 chroma variants.
Best ARAM build
This champion’s win rate on each patch the preview sample spans, over its own games there. What actually changed each patch is in Riot’s own notes.
| Stat | Naafiri | Rank | Median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base health | 610 | =98th | 620 |
| Health per level | 105 | =74th | 104 |
| Base armor | 28 | =98th | 30 |
| Armor per level | 4.2 | =122nd | 4.6 |
| Base magic resist | 32 | =32nd | 32 |
| Magic resist per level | 2.05 | =4th | 1.55 |
| Base attack damage | 55 | =120th | 59 |
| Base attack speed | 0.663 | 53rd | 0.656 |
| Attack speed per level | 2.1% | =114th | 2.5% |
| Move speed | 340 | =37th | 335 |
| Attack range | 125 | =129th | 175 |
| Stat | Level 1 | Per level | Level 18 | Rank at 18 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health | 610 | +105 | 2395 | 87th of 173 |
| Mana | 400 | +55 | 1335 | 16th of 145 |
| Armor | 28 | +4.2 | 99.4 | =132nd of 173 |
| Magic resist | 32 | +2.05 | 66.85 | =5th of 173 |
Riot Data Dragon 16.20.1. Growth curve: League of Legends Wiki — Champion statistic.
Naafiri, the Hound of a Hundred Bites, is a Assassin and Fighter champion in League of Legends. Riot rates the kit 2/10 for difficulty, 9/10 for attack, 5/10 for defense and 0/10 for magic. Naafiri spends Mana and has 5 skins with their own art.
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.
