How to win lane as Lissandra against Naafiri · 52.29% win rate (6,936 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
You are the assassin's nightmare pick — root the dash, tomb the dive, and counter-kill the reset she no longer has.
Track: Naafiri's W — Hounds' Pursuit (26–18s cooldown). The lock-on pack dash starts her dive — stand near minions to body-block the hounds.
Read from Lissandra's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Naafiri.
This is Lissandra's own plan; across 6,936 pooled games the lane is leaning Lissandra.
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | Level 1 is even as both farm and trade around dodging Naafiri's Q daggers. |
| Level 2 | Even / skill | Level 2 stays skill-based since her packmate poke trades roughly with your E-Q harass. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | Level 3 remains even with neither champ holding a decisive all-in before ultimates. |
| Levels 4-5 | Even / skill | Levels 4-5 are still a skill dodge-fight around her sustained Q pressure versus your spacing. |
| Level 6 | Even / skill | Level 6 flips to you: R point-and-click stops her Hounds' Pursuit dive mid-dash. |
| First item | Even / skill | First item stays yours because your self-peel and CC beat her commit-heavy engage pattern. |
| Two+ items | Lissandra | With 2+ items you keep the edge via engage and self-R survivability against her skirmish game. |
Levels 1-4 are an even skill matchup: Naafiri's Q daggers are her poke and her packmates telegraph the all-in, so spacing with E and dodging keeps trades neutral. She has sustained pressure, so don't get greedy, but nothing here is a hard loss. Track Hounds’ Pursuit (R): 110s at rank 1, 80s maxed — the lock-on pack dash starts her dive and the recast shields her, so hold your tomb for the second cast.
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Lissandra's side, sampled July 2026.
The full Lissandra vs Naafiri report continues with the mid-game plan, the late-game and teamfight plan, every power spike to play around, and the win conditions for both sides — plus cooldown tracking and the live enemy-jungle tracker inside the app.
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Lissandra, slightly — a 52.29% win rate edge over 6,936 games; execution can flip it.
Mostly — Lissandra has a small statistical edge (52.29% win rate), but execution decides this lane far more than the pick does.
Not a hard counter — Lissandra has a slight edge (52.29% win rate), and play quality decides the rest.
Lissandra takes Electrocute on the Domination tree with Cheap Shot, Grisly Mementos and Ultimate Hunter, and Sorcery secondary (Manaflow Band and Transcendence) vs Naafiri.
Start Doran's Ring + 2 Health Potions and back for Oblivion Orb (≈800g) — cuts her sustain. Build Malignance first, then Zhonya's Hourglass, with Sorcerer's Shoes / Plated Steelcaps.
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