Nami with Alistar
How to Synergize Nami and Alistar
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Nami Alistar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nami and Alistar
Tips for Playing as Nami with Alistar
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 Understand How Alistar Will Play
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Nami Alistar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Alistar as Nami in LoL
The Nami Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Nami sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Alistar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Alistar helps Nami perform worse in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nami tries to synergize with Alistar, she gets a small decrease in her full damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Alistar does not support by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Nami is played with Alistar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Alistar.
Additionally, when Nami plays with Alistar on the same side, she often receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Alistar does a decent job of protecting Nami during team fights.
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Is Nami better when played alongside Alistar?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Nami that will 100% of the time be her top synergy. However, overall, Alistar is a very bad ally for Nami. By being on the same team as Nami, he decreases their win rate by -3.5% to 45.6%. This proves that there is a terrible bond between Nami and Alistar that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Alistar has a greater difficulty than Nami. That means Nami players need to be cautious when finding Alistar allies to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Playing alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to support your allies. When paired, these two may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Nami and Alistar together, you may not be granting your other teammates a lot of AD. Make sure to include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Alistar teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Nami to pair well with Alistar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to use in your Nami and Alistar synergy build consist of Ardent Censer, Imperial Mandate, and Dawncore. When Nami incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Alistar than with many other common builds. In fact, Nami boasted an average winrate of 45.6% when playing alongside Alistar with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Nami players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Nami and Alistar pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 45.6% win rate overall.
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