It has been quite a while since a new League of Legends champion was not only released but actually seen as well. Overnight, Riot Games finally revealed her, most likely due to leakers showing her trailer first. With that, fans will now be wanting to know what this new assassin does. Here is what is known so far about the League of Legends Naafiri Abilities.
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What is known about Naafiri is that she will be a simple-to-play mid-lane assassin. Meaning that her abilities will not necessarily have a high-skill ceiling and they likely will not be complicated. that does not mean that she won’t have some interesting abilities. In fact, she is supposed to have a mechanic that is brand new to League of Legends.
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Passive- We Are More
Naafiri spawns Packmates that attack the targets of her attacks and abilities.
Q- Darkin Dagger
Naafiri hurls up to two daggers. If the target is bleeding, this skill inflicts bonus damage and bonus bleeding.
Packmates leap to attack targets hit.
W- Hound’s Pursuit
Naafiri and her packmates dash at an enemy, colliding with the first champion hit and dealing damage.
E- Eviscerate
Naafiri dashes and damages enemies in an area, recalling and healing her Packmates to full.
R- The Call of the Pack
Naafiri empowers her pack and spawns additional Packmates, gaining a burst of speed and vision and a shield when she attacks a champion.
On the first champion takedown, all effects are refreshed.
NEW UPDATE
Abilities are shown in latest teaser trailer.
There is one smaller leak that BigBadBear mentioned that she will be making her way to TFT at some point and that she will have a slashing mechanic. This is not something that should be a major surprise. Especially when looking at the mechanic and the fact that she is a Darkin Dagger.
In the trailer, as mentioned above there is a slashing mechanic. It is seen later in the trailer as she presumably kills someone or her old self. That is not entirely clear.
What else is seen though is the rest of the pack attacking from different angles and from the brush. Riot Games generally puts abilities into trailers in ways that are obvious if the abilities are already known and not if they aren’t. The speculation is that she will have something similar to Rengar when attack from the fog of war or a brush.
Also, there is a likelihood that she will attack with her pack. What that looks like is not entirely clear. But during the trailer, they attack from all sides in something that looks like it may be an ultimate ability.
Lastly, it feels like the new mechanic will be that Naafiri will have her pack around her at all times. She will probably be able to command them similar to if Tibbers or Daisy are out. What the difference will be is not known yet but it is possible that maybe they will just attack automatically as Naafiri does her own thing?
NEW INFORMATION
Here is what the leaker says translated from Twitter into English.
“Naafiri will use Artificial Intelligence There will be “dogs” scattered around the map that help Naafiri during gameplay, their behavior will be defined by Artificial Intelligence behaving like a pack waiting for the right moment to attack and chasing easy prey.”
Regardless, it looks like Naafiri is coming in and coming in hot. She will be quite an interesting champion once she is released and fans are very much looking forward to seeing what she can do.
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