Nami with Kindred
How to Synergize Nami and Kindred
based on 1,957 Nami with Kindred pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nami Kindred Synergy Summary
Best Nami vs Kindred Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nami and Kindred
Tips for Playing as Nami with Kindred
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 Kindred Will Play
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 Kindred Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kindred as Nami in LoL
The Nami Kindred synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kindred, 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 Kindred. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Kindred helps Nami perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nami plays on the same team as Kindred, she sees a little drop in her complete damage output. This change may signal that Kindred does not provide protection for her to deal more damage or that their presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Nami is played with Kindred on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Kindred.
Additionally, when Nami plays with Kindred on the same team, she typically receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Kindred does a decent job of protecting Nami during team fights.
Synergies between Nami and Kindred
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Is Nami better when played alongside Kindred?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Nami that will 100% of the time be her top synergy. Yet, Kindred is a very bad ally for Nami. By locking into the same team as Nami, they drops their win rate by -3.5% to 45.6%. This demonstrates that there is a very bad synergy between Nami and Kindred that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Kindred has a lower difficulty than Nami. That means Nami players don't need to be cautious when lining up Kindred teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Nami players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by grouping Nami and Kindred together, you may not be providing your team enough engage potential. Make sure to have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Kindred ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing 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 Nami to synergize with Kindred during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Nami and Kindred synergy build consist of Ardent Censer, Imperial Mandate, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Nami included at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Kindred than with most other common builds. In fact, Nami had an average win rate of 45.6% helping carry Kindred with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, Nami players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Nami and Kindred pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 45.6% winrate overall.
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