Nami vs Jayce
How to Beat Jayce as Nami
based on 1,584 Nami vs Jayce matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nami vs Jayce Matchup Summary
Best Nami vs Jayce Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jayce as Nami
Tips for Playing as Nami against Jayce
Nami's ultimate can come in very handy for initiating on enemies who are far away.
Using Ebb and Flow during an engagement with enemy champions will help sway the battle in your favor.
Aqua Prison has a long cooldown, make sure to use it at the right moment.
Advice to Win Against Jayce
Jayce is strong in the early game. If he gains the advantage, play defensively.
Jayce can attack in melee or at range. Pay attention to his stance and weapon color to know how he is going to attack.
If you see Jayce drop his Acceleration Gate, be careful, he is probably about to cast Shock Blast.
Nami vs Jayce Counter Stats
How to Counter Jayce with Nami in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several significant Nami against Jayce counter stats that may help us grasp the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Nami’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Jayce’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Nami may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Jayce. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Nami typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her matchup does. Typically, she receives less damage than Jayce. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nami and Jayce
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Who is Better, Nami or Jayce?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nami usually fairs equally well when facing off against Jayce, with a 50.8% win rate. Thus, Nami makes an ok counter for Jayce.
While Nami does have a higher winrate than Jayce, when facing one another, Nami also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Nami into Jayce.
Additionally, Nami has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Jayce. 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 in League of Legends, in Nami vs Jayce matchups, Nami is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Nami is a decent counter for Jayce. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Nami against Jayce.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nami in order to counter Jayce during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nami often gets a lot less CS relative to Jayce. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs 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 surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Nami versus Jayce build include Dream Maker, Imperial Mandate, and Moonstone Renewer. When Nami bought at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better vs Jayce than with most other common builds. In fact, Nami had an average win rate of 50.8% when countering Jayce with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Jayce as Nami, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Nami vs Jayce fights, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.8% win rate overall.
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