Nami vs Lux
How to Beat Lux as Nami
based on 10,803 Nami vs Lux matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nami vs Lux Matchup Summary
Best Nami vs Lux Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lux as Nami
Tips for Playing as Nami against Lux
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 Lux
When retreating with low health, be prepared to dodge Lux's Final Spark, a red targeting beam fires prior to the main beam, so try to move to the side if possible.
Lux has powerful zone control abilities. Try to spread out and attack from different directions so she cannot lock down a specific area.
Nami vs Lux Counter Stats
How to Counter Lux with Nami in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some important Nami against Lux matchup statistics that can help us figure out the distinctions between these two champions. Nami’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lux’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nami may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Lux. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Nami typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Lux. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nami and Lux
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Who is Better, Nami or Lux?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nami usually fairs equally well when facing off against Lux, with a 49.7% win rate. As a result, Nami makes an ok counter to Lux.
While Nami does have a lower win rate than Lux, when facing one another, Nami also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Nami into Lux.
Additionally, Nami has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lux. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nami vs Lux matchups, Lux is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Nami is a somewhat poor counter to Lux. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nami against Lux.
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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 Lux during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nami usually racks up a lot less CS relative to Lux. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The top items to use in your Nami versus Lux build include Ardent Censer, Imperial Mandate, and Moonstone Renewer. When Nami combined at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better countering Lux than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Nami had an average winrate of 49.7% when countering Lux with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Lux as Nami, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Nami vs Lux counters, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.7% win rate overall.
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