Nami vs Xerath
How to Beat Xerath as Nami
based on 4,342 Nami vs Xerath matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nami vs Xerath Matchup Summary
Best Nami vs Xerath Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xerath as Nami
Tips for Playing as Nami against Xerath
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 Xerath
Xerath's range can be intimidating, but most champions who close distance with him can trade favorably.
Banshee's Veil will make it much harder for Xerath to land Shocking Orb on you.
Xerath takes a long time to engage Rite of the Arcane. Watch for his spellcast animation and start dodging.
Nami vs Xerath Counter Stats
How to Counter Xerath with Nami in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight some influential Nami against Xerath counter statistics that may help us grasp the distinctions between the pair. Nami’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Xerath’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Nami may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Xerath. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Nami typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Xerath. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nami and Xerath
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Who is Better, Nami or Xerath?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nami usually loses when facing off against Xerath, with a 48.8% win rate. Thus, Nami makes a poor counter to Xerath.
While Nami does have a lower winrate compared to Xerath, when facing one another, Nami also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Nami into Xerath.
Additionally, Nami has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xerath. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, 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 Xerath matchups, Xerath is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Nami is a somewhat poor counter for Xerath. Focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Nami against Xerath.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nami to counter Xerath during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nami most often racks up a lot less CS compared to Xerath. Champs who on average don't earn much CS typically don't need 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, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Nami versus Xerath build consist of Redemption, Ardent Censer, and Imperial Mandate. When Nami included at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better against Xerath than with many other common item sets. In fact, Nami boasted an average winrate of 48.8% when playing against Xerath with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of crushing Xerath as Nami, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Nami vs Xerath clashes, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.8% winrate overall.
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