Kayle vs Nami
How to Beat Nami as Kayle
based on 3,171 Kayle vs Nami matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kayle vs Nami Matchup Summary
Best Kayle vs Nami Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nami as Kayle
Tips for Playing as Kayle against Nami
Kayle benefits greatly from Attack Damage and Ability Power, making hybrid items like Nashor's Tooth and Hextech Gunblade very effective on her.
Using Divine Judgment on a high-DPS ally can turn the tides of battle by giving your ally free reign to attack.
Kayle's attacks become incredibly powerful once she gains attack range from Divine Ascent. Play safe until then.
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.
Kayle vs Nami Counter Stats
How to Counter Nami with Kayle in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some important Kayle versus Nami counter stats that can help you explain the differences between the pair. For instance, Kayle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nami’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kayle may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Nami. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Kayle often has a much larger longest kill spree than her counter does. Typically, she receives more damage than Nami. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kayle and Nami
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Who is Better, Kayle or Nami?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kayle usually wins when trying to fight Nami, with a 53.2% win rate. As a result, Kayle makes a great counter to Nami.
While Kayle does have a higher win rate than Nami, when they face off with one another, Kayle also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming character to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Kayle into Namias her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Kayle has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nami. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Kayle vs Nami matchups, Kayle is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Kayle is a great counter to Nami. Focus your strategy on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Kayle against Nami.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Kayle to counter Nami during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kayle most often gets much more CS compared to Nami. Champs who on average don't take much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Kayle versus Nami build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Nashor's Tooth. When Kayle bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs Nami than with many other common item sets. In fact, Kayle had an average winrate of 53.2% when playing against Nami with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Nami as Kayle, Kayle players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Kayle vs Nami matchups, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.2% winrate overall.
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