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.
If you are struck by Fear Beyond Death, do your best to avoid falling below the execution threshold (25% of your Maximum Health) until the effect times out.
Urgot relies heavily on blasting opponents with his legs, which have their own cooldowns and only detonate when he attacks in the direction they are facing. Avoid getting hit by multiple.
Urgot can deal and absorb tremendous amounts of damage with Purge, but slows himself while firing.
The stat comparisons shown here underscore several vital Nami against Urgot counter statistics that can help you appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. Nami’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Urgot’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nami may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Urgot. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Nami normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Urgot. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nami usually loses when facing off against Urgot, with a 46.5% win rate. As a result, Nami makes a poor counter to Urgot.
While Nami does have a lower win rate than Urgot, when they face off with one another, Nami also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Nami into Urgot.
Additionally, Nami also has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Urgot. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Nami vs Urgot matchups, Urgot is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Nami is a bad counter to Urgot. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Nami against Urgot.
To learn all of the intricacies of Nami in order to counter Urgot during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nami typically picks up a lot less CS relative to Urgot. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Nami versus Urgot build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Ardent Censer, and Imperial Mandate. When Nami combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better countering Urgot than with most other common builds. In fact, Nami had an average win rate of 46.5% when playing against Urgot with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Urgot 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. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Nami vs Urgot counters, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.5% winrate overall.
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