Yunara asks for time synergies: any ally who buys her seconds of DPS — anti-dive polymorph, slows, shields during Trance — converts them directly into damage. Attack-speed enchanters feed her hybrid passive, and frontlines that stretch fights play exactly at her tempo.
Lulu
Lulu amplifies exactly what Yunara wants: Whimsy's attack speed feeds the hybrid passive, polymorph covers her total lack of crowd control, and Wild Growth saves her during Transcendent windows when she is the priority target. The classic hypercarry duo at its ceiling.
enchanter / hypercarry_enableSupport
Transe→
Fantaisie (AS)→
Déchaînement spirituel→
Croissance monstrueuse
Thresh
Thresh covers both of Yunara's weaknesses: Death Sentence creates the openings she cannot force herself, and the Lantern cancels dives targeting her. In lane, hook threat gives her space to farm through her weak early game.
setup / peelSupport
Sentence→
Arc du jugement (slow)→Déchaînement spirituel→
Fléau (anti-dive)
Nami
Tidecaller's Blessing adds on-hit damage directly to Yunara's hybrid profile, and the sustain helps survive aggressive lanes that target her early.
sustain / on_hit_ampSupport
Braum
Braum's wall and stun passive protect Transcendent windows against dive compositions.
peel / anti_diveSupport
Karma
Karma's shield-speed tools enable the constant kiting Yunara needs to deliver her DPS.
poke / speed_enableSupport
Yunara does not ask for combo synergies, she asks for time synergies. Any ally who buys her seconds — a polymorph cancelling a dive, a slow keeping a bruiser away, a shield during her Trance — converts those seconds directly into damage. Her total lack of crowd control defines her ideal partners: supports who fill that gap, and frontlines that turn her teamfights into positioning exercises.
In the 7.2 meta where enchanters and engage-peel supports dominate the Dragon Lane, Yunara benefits twice: granted attack speed (Lulu) directly feeds her hybrid passive, and anti-dive tools cover the windows between two Trances where she is most vulnerable.
A hybrid hypercarry to protect: the win condition of a front-to-back composition willing to play for minute 25.
These compositions dedicate their resources to keeping the hypercarry alive. Every second of survival bought during Trance converts into AoE DPS, and a polymorph or Braum wall cancels the dive Yunara cannot interrupt herself.
How to play it. Play strict front-to-back: the frontline absorbs, Yunara does DPS from the backline and keeps her Trance dash to reposition, never to engage.
Zone-control tanks stretch fights and keep divers at bay. The longer a fight lasts, the more Yunara's sustained hybrid DPS out-paces enemy burst profiles.
How to play it. Sync Trance with the tank's engage, not after: the maximum DPS window must cover the moment the enemy is crowd-controlled.
Yunara wants called fights around Dragon and Baron, where her Trance is available and her positioning prepared. Compositions that pick the terrain through vision and zone control play exactly at her tempo.
How to play it. Set vision 30 seconds before the objective spawns, arrive first, and let the enemy walk into the established DPS zone.
Compositions that dive the backline 5-deep leave Yunara with no target in range and no protection: she can neither follow the dive nor survive the counter-attack alone. Her Trance dash repositions, it does not engage.
Stacking a second hypercarry (scaling AP mid, farming jungle) without a frontline creates a team that loses every map before minute 20. Yunara needs someone to buy her time — nobody can in those drafts.
Lulu amplifies exactly what Yunara wants: Whimsy's attack speed feeds the hybrid passive, polymorph covers her lack of crowd control, and Wild Growth saves her during Trance windows when she is the priority target.
Thresh gives Yunara what her kit lacks: controlled engage, Box peel and a Lantern that cancels the first dive. A Thresh-Yunara lane can play passive without ever being truly punishable.
Yunara performs best when allies extend the first window of control or damage. The strongest pairings on this page, such as Lulu, Thresh, Nami, create cleaner fights and more reliable tempo swings.
Yunara has a marksman profile, so allies with enchanter / hypercarry_enable, setup / peel are usually the best fit. You often get the most value from partners played in Support.
These pairings matter most around first engage timing, objective setup, and follow-up on crowd control. The page is not just naming allies: it highlights combinations that reduce execution risk for Yunara.
Lulu. The attack speed directly feeds her hybrid passive, polymorph fills her lack of crowd control and Wild Growth saves her when focused in Trance. Thresh is the engage-peel alternative for hard lanes.
Front-to-back with frontline and peel: zone-control tanks (Ornn, Maokai) and enchanters. Avoid full-engage drafts where nobody can protect her, and double-scaling drafts without frontline that lose the map before her spike.
Yes, provided the jungler covers her lane rather than demanding follow-ups: she cannot follow an early dive for lack of crowd control. A jungler who ganks to relieve pressure (not to force kills) protects exactly what she needs — time.
As soon as the first item is completed: her AoE DPS is already above the ADC average. At Guinsoo + Runaan's, every teamfight around a contested objective is her power zone — playing her in a side lane at that point wastes her win condition.
Ornn
Maokai