Naafiri Jungle Build, Best Paths & Clearing Guide for Patch 26.7
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RDiscover the best Naafiri jungle build for League of Legends Patch 26.7. Learn optimal jungle paths, Naafiri build runes & items, skill order, counters and explore our pathing guide to maximize your winrate in the Season 16 meta.
Jungle Trends
Highest Winrate First Camp
Raptors (50.9%)
Most Popular First Camp
Blue Sentinel (52%)
Top 3 Highest Winrate Paths
Top 3 Highest Popularity Paths
Naafiri Tips and Tricks
- Naafiri excels at punishing isolated targets and roaming the map quickly. However, her early dueling power against most junglers is limited, so avoid direct fights before your first items.
- Because of her weak early game, Naafiri struggles to gank high-mobility lanes unless her allies provide reliable crowd control such as long stuns or roots.
- Naafiri reaches her main power spike after completing 1-2 core items, making her a naturally strong mid-game champion capable of snowballing fights.
- Eviscerate allows Naafiri to jump over most walls, giving her excellent map mobility. The Call of the Pack can also be used defensively to escape dangerous situations.
- Missing one cast of Darkin Daggers drastically lowers your total damage output. Practice landing both hits consistently to maximize burst damage and clear speed. Naafiri is all about poking until the enemy gets into one-shot range.
- Naafiri's summoned pups behave similarly to Elise's spiderlings. They can tank monster attacks, but timing Eviscerate properly during your first clear is crucial to keep them alive since losing them slows your clear significantly.
Naafiri Matchups
Naafiri Jungle Pathing Guide
Jungle Pathing represents the choices jungle players make in regards to when and where to gank, invade or just path towards. It includes how camps and buffs are cleared between ganks, anticipating counterganks, and spotting opportunities for invading. Effective pathing requires deep understanding of your champion's abilities, their interactions, and how both team compositions play into those choices.
Full clear with a Blue Buff start
The recommended jungle path for Naafiri starts at Blue Sentinel with Darkin Daggers unlocked at level one since it's Naafiri's main damage dealing skill. At level two unlock Eviscerate for a bit of additional area of effect damage and the ability to heal Naafiri's pups. Clear Gromp & Wolves next. At level three, unlock The Call of the Pack and proceed to clear the Raptors, Red Brambleback, and Krugs. As you reach level four upgrade Darkin Daggers before pathing into a gank, pathing into a gank and/or stealing the enemy's Raptors.
An alternative Naafiri first clear is Red → Krugs → Raptors → Wolves → Gromp → Blue. It's also possible to start Raptors instead of Red Brambleback as well. These paths provide earlier Red Buff uptime for more map pressure if you want to invade or gank at level three.
