Kayn with Nami
How to Synergize Kayn and Nami
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Kayn Nami Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kayn and Nami
Tips for Playing as Kayn with Nami
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
Advice to Understand How Nami Will Play
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.
Kayn Nami Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nami as Kayn in LoL
The Kayn Nami synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nami, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Kayn sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nami. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Nami helps Kayn perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kayn tries to synergize with Nami, he observes a small increase in his full damage output. This may indicate that Nami helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Kayn is played together with Nami on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Nami.
Additionally, when Kayn plays with Nami on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Nami does a poor job of covering Kayn during teamfights.
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Is Kayn better when played alongside Nami?
There is no ideal synergy for Kayn that will always be his top ally. Yet, Nami is a very typical teammate for Kayn. By playing on the same side as Kayn, she drops their win rate by -0.6% to 48.6%. This shows that there is only a small synergy between Kayn and Nami that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Nami has a much lower diffuclty than Kayn. That means Kayn players don't need to be very careful when lining up Nami teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by bringing Kayn and Nami together, you may not be providing your other allies a lot of magical damage output. Plan to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Nami ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Kayn to pair well with Nami during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to have in your Kayn and Nami synergy build include Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Axiom Arc. When Kayn included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Nami than with most other common builds. In fact, Kayn had an average win rate of 48.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nami with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Kayn players should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.6% win rate overall.
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