If at low health, you can take advantage of Demon Shade's healing and Camouflage to return to the fight and surprise opponents.
While stealthed, pay attention to when you are (near) being detected by enemy champions. This is identified by the glowing yellow and red eyes over nearby enemy champions.
Allure's arm time might seem long, but the Charm and magic resist shred put Evelynn at an exteme advantage so are worth the wait.
Aqua Prison is a very powerful ability with a long cooldown, take advantage of the situation if Nami misses this ability.
Tidal Wave has a very long range but travels slowly, be aware of when it is coming your way as you can move out of its path.
Try to avoid fighting an opponent affected by Tidecaller's Blessing, it lasts a short duration so waiting it out can help you greatly.
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify several important Evelynn versus Nami counter statistics that can help us figure out the distinctions between the two. As an example, Evelynn’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nami’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Evelynn may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Nami. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Evelynn often has a much larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Nami. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Evelynn usually wins when trying to fight Nami, with a 51.6% win rate. Thus, Evelynn makes a good counter to Nami.
While Evelynn does have a higher win rate than Nami, when on opposite teams, Evelynn also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Evelynn into Namias her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Evelynn has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nami. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Evelynn vs Nami matchups, Evelynn is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Evelynn is a decent counter for Nami. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Evelynn against Nami.
To truly master Evelynn in order to counter Nami during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Evelynn most often gets a similar amount of CS as Nami. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Evelynn versus Nami build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Void Staff. When Evelynn incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better vs. Nami than with most other typical builds. In fact, Evelynn boasted an average win rate of 51.6% when playing against Nami with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Nami as Evelynn, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Evelynn vs Nami counterpicks, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Nami as Evelynn are presented for all ranked divisions combined. To narrow the statistics and builds to an individual rank, you should use the selection menu located earlier on the page.