Nami with Nilah
How to Synergize Nami and Nilah
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Nami Nilah Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nami and Nilah
Tips for Playing as Nami with Nilah
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.
Nami Nilah Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nilah as Nami in LoL
The Nami Nilah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nilah, 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 Nilah. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Nilah helps Nami perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nami tries to synergize with Nilah, she gets a noticable increase in her total damage dealt. This could indicate that Nilah supports by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that their allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Nami is played alongside Nilah 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 Nilah.
Additionally, when Nami plays with Nilah on the same side, she usually receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Nilah does a poor job of covering Nami in team fights.
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Is Nami better when played alongside Nilah?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Nami that will always be her top ally. However, overall, Nilah is a decent teammate for Nami. By playing on the same team as Nami, they raises their win rate by 2.5% to 51.6%. This clearly indicates that there is a potentially meaningful strategic relationship between Nami and Nilah that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Nilah has a much greater difficulty compared to Nami. That means you need to be very careful when finding Nilah teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide utility and CC for your side. Together, these champs may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Conversely, by grouping Nami and Nilah together, you probably will not be providing your side a lot of engage potential. Make sure to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Nilah ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your 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 in order to pair well with Nilah during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to include in your Nami and Nilah synergy build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Ardent Censer, and Dream Maker. When Nami combined at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Nilah than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nami had an average win rate of 51.6% helping carry Nilah with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, Nami players should use 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 this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Nilah with Nami are shown for every ranked division. To narrow the stats and builds to a distinct player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.