Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
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.
The Kindred Nami synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nami, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Kindred sees a large worsening in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nami. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Nami helps Kindred perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kindred plays on the same team as Nami, they sees a marginal improvement in their total damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Nami provides cover for them to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Kindred is played alongside Nami on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays without Nami. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing with Nami.
Additionally, when Kindred plays with Nami on the same team, they typically receives a little less damage than when they plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Nami does a decent job of covering Kindred in teamfights.
There is no perfect champion pairing for Kindred that will 100% of the time be their best ally. Yet, Nami is a not very good companion for Kindred. By playing on the same side as Kindred, she drops their win rate by -2.7% to 45.6%. This shows that there is a negative strategic relationship between Kindred and Nami that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Nami has a greater difficulty than Kindred. That means Kindred players should be careful when enlisting Nami teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by aligning Kindred and Nami together, you may not be granting your other teammates a lot of engage. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Nami ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kindred to synergize with Nami during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to build first in your Kindred and Nami synergy build consist of Guinsoo's Rageblade, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Kindred included at least these three pieces in their build, they did a lot better as an ally of Nami than with many other common item sets. In fact, Kindred boasted an average winrate of 45.6% helping carry Nami with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, Kindred players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Kindred and Nami pairings, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Nami with Kindred are given for all ranked divisions combined. To filter the stats and builds to an individual rank, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.