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.
Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
The Nami Annie synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Annie, 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 large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Annie. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Annie helps Nami perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nami is an ally to Annie, she gets a marginal improvement in her complete damage output. This change may indicate that Annie helps provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that her support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Nami is played with Annie on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Annie.
Additionally, when Nami plays with Annie on the same side, she on average receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Annie does a decent job of protecting Nami in teamfights.
There is no perfect champion pairing for Nami that will no matter what be her ideal ally. Yet, Annie is a decent companion for Nami. By locking into the same side as Nami, she increases their win rate by 1.3% to 50.4%. This signals that there is a good synergy between Nami and Annie that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Annie has a greater difficulty than Nami. That means Nami players need to be very careful when arranging Annie teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to play well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by aligning Nami and Annie together, you may not be providing your other allies much AD. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Annie ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Nami in order to work well with Annie during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to get in your Nami and Annie synergy build include Dream Maker, Imperial Mandate, and Moonstone Renewer. When Nami included at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when fighting alongside Annie than with most other common builds. In fact, Nami had an average win rate of 50.4% helping carry Annie with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you 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 that we analyzed for Nami and Annie pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Annie with Nami are displayed for every ranked division. To narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.