Nami vs Taliyah
How to Beat Taliyah as Nami
based on 1,228 Nami vs Taliyah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nami vs Taliyah Matchup Summary
Best Nami vs Taliyah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taliyah as Nami
Tips for Playing as Nami against Taliyah
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 Taliyah
When Taliyah casts Unraveled Earth in the lane, be on the lookout for Seismic Shove. If she throws you into her minefield, the throws and stones will break your bones.
Taliyah's Threaded Volley is locked into a direction. If she's throwing rocks at you, dodge to the side!
Nami vs Taliyah Counter Stats
How to Counter Taliyah with Nami in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some valuable Nami against Taliyah counter stats that can help us figure out the differences between the two. For instance, Nami’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Taliyah’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Nami may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Taliyah. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Nami usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her foe does. On average, she receives less damage than Taliyah. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nami and Taliyah
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Who is Better, Nami or Taliyah?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nami usually wins when facing off against Taliyah, with a 51.1% win rate. Thus, Nami makes a good counter to Taliyah.
While Nami does have a higher win rate than Taliyah, when they face off with one another, Nami also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champ to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Nami into Taliyah.
Furthermore, Nami has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Taliyah. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nami vs Taliyah matchups, Nami is the better champion with a higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Nami is a decent counter for Taliyah. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nami against Taliyah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nami to counter Taliyah during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nami typically picks up a lot less CS compared to Taliyah. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Nami versus Taliyah build include Redemption, Dream Maker, and Imperial Mandate. When Nami included at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when facing Taliyah than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Nami had an average winrate of 51.1% when countering Taliyah with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Taliyah as Nami, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Nami vs Taliyah fights, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.1% win rate overall.
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