Illaoi vs Nami
How to Beat Nami as Illaoi
based on 1,743 Illaoi vs Nami matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Illaoi vs Nami Matchup Summary
Best Illaoi vs Nami Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Illaoi Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Nami as Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Illaoi against Nami
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
Advice to Win Against Nami
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.
Illaoi vs Nami Counter Stats
How to Counter Nami with Illaoi in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify several vital Illaoi versus Nami counter stats that may help you appreciate the differences between this pair of champions. For instance, Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nami’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Nami. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Illaoi usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. On average, she takes more damage than Nami. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Illaoi and Nami
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Illaoi or Nami?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Illaoi usually wins when playing against Nami, with a 51.0% win rate. Thus, Illaoi makes a good counter for Nami.
While Illaoi does have a higher winrate compared to Nami, when on opposite teams, Illaoi also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less complex champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Illaoi into Nami.
Additionally, Illaoi also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nami. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Illaoi vs Nami matchups, Illaoi is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Illaoi is a decent counter to Nami. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Illaoi against Nami.
Other Champion Matchups Against Illaoi
Additional Information for Illaoi Players
How We Calculated Our Illaoi vs Nami Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Illaoi to counter Nami during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi on average accumulates much more CS compared to Nami. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Illaoi versus Nami build include Sterak's Gage, Spirit Visage, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi included at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting Nami than with many other common item sets. In fact, Illaoi boasted an average winrate of 51.0% battling Nami with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating Nami as Illaoi, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Illaoi vs Nami matchups, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Nami as Illaoi are shown for all ranked divisions. If you would like to filter the statistics and builds to a distinct skill level, you can use the selection menu above.