Naafiri

Dune hounds prowl the sands of Shurima in fiercely contested packs, and they clash with one another nearly as often as they chase prey across the empire’s ruins. Naafiri leads the pack that has come out on top of every rival, and sharp instincts are only part of the story. The empire’s fallen god-warriors have lain under the desert for centuries and are finally starting to rouse, and Naafiri’s hounds take their ferocity from that same ancient wellspring: Darkin power, flowing through a creature that still hunts exactly like the beast it resembles.

• We Are More, her passive, summons packmates that leap onto whichever target she strikes.
• Darkin Daggers lets her hurl up to two blades that inflict bleeding, dealing extra damage when the victim is already bleeding.
• The Call of the Pack makes her untargetable while calling in more hounds and increasing her movement speed and damage.
• Eviscerate lunges through an area, wounding enemies and pulling back injured packmates so she can restore their health.
• Hounds’ Pursuit releases the entire pack against a single champion, and a second cast unlocks after a takedown.

Below the sand, Naafiri shares a buried history with Nasus and Azir: a Shurima where ancient power is still climbing back to full strength, and where a hound pack that proves to be more than mere animals is simply another sign of the awakening.

On the Rift, Naafiri is usually an Assassin-Fighter hybrid, most often played in Mid or Top lane, and she runs on mana like many of the champions linked to Shurima’s revival. The empire was once a powerful desert nation, now swallowed by sand, with its risen god-warriors slowly returning. Against that backdrop, a hound pack powered by Darkin energy looks less like an oddity and more like one more part of the empire coming back to life. Naafiri hunts in that spirit: less a solitary predator than the visible edge of something far larger and older that is beginning to stir.