Tristana vs Nami
How to Beat Nami as Tristana
based on 3,360 Tristana vs Nami matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tristana vs Nami Matchup Summary
Best Tristana vs Nami Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nami as Tristana
Tips for Playing as Tristana against Nami
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
Advice to Win Against Nami
Aqua Prison is a very powerful ability with a long cooldown, take advantage of the situation if Nami misses this ability.
Tidal Wave has a very long range but travels slowly, be aware of when it is coming your way as you can move out of its path.
Try to avoid fighting an opponent affected by Tidecaller's Blessing, it lasts a short duration so waiting it out can help you greatly.
Tristana vs Nami Counter Stats
How to Counter Nami with Tristana in LoL
The stats shown here show several valuable Tristana vs. Nami counter statistics that may help you grasp the differences between the two. As an example, Tristana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nami’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Tristana may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Nami. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Tristana normally has a much larger longest kill spree than her counter does. On average, she takes more damage than Nami. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Tristana and Nami
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Who is Better, Tristana or Nami?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Tristana usually fairs equally well when taking on Nami, with a 49.5% win rate. Therefore, Tristana makes an ok counter to Nami.
While Tristana does have a lower winrate compared to Nami, when they face off with one another, Tristana also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less complex champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Tristana into Nami.
Moreover, Tristana has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nami. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Tristana vs Nami 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.
Tristana is a somewhat poor counter to Nami. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Tristana against Nami.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Tristana to counter Nami during both the early game 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 listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tristana on average gets much more CS relative to Nami. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Tristana versus Nami build include Guardian Angel, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Tristana used at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better vs. Nami than with many other common builds. In fact, Tristana boasted an average winrate of 49.5% when countering Nami with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Nami as Tristana, you should take the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Legend: Bloodline, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Tristana vs Nami counter picks, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.5% winrate overall.
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