Naafiri vs Aurelion Sol — Mid Lane Matchup Guide

How to win lane as Naafiri against Aurelion Sol · 57.84% win rate over 389 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27

Verdict: Naafiri is favoured — Naafiri owns 6 of the 7 game windows to Aurelion Sol's 1. Naafiri wins 57.84% of games vs Aurelion Sol in mid lane (389 Emerald+ games analysed).

Favour timeline — who owns each window

StageFavouredWhy
Level 1NaafiriAurelion Sol's damage-less level 1 loses hard to your Q shove and W threat.
Level 2NaafiriAt 2 you punish every step-up before his stacks matter.
Level 3NaafiriLevel 3's full combo out-trades his unstacked breath easily.
Levels 4-5NaafiriThrough 4-5 you keep starving his farm and winning trades.
Level 6NaafiriYour level-6 R bursts him before his slow Stellar Nova channels.
First itemNaafiriOn first item your W-E still deletes his fragile stacking frame.
Two+ itemsAurelion SolWith items his stacked range, slow and R displacement out-scale your all-in.

Early game (levels 1–5)

Levels 1-2 are all yours: Aurelion Sol has no meaningful early damage and only a slow zone for defense, so shove with Q and W-in on every step-up to punish his fragile, immobile start.

Read the rest of this matchup

The full Naafiri vs Aurelion Sol 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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