Aatrox vs Nami
How to Beat Nami as Aatrox
based on 5,798 Aatrox vs Nami matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Aatrox vs Nami Matchup Summary
Best Aatrox vs Nami Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nami as Aatrox
Tips for Playing as Aatrox against Nami
Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
Advice to Win Against Nami
Aqua Prison is a very powerful ability with a long cooldown, take advantage of the situation if Nami misses this ability.
Tidal Wave has a very long range but travels slowly, be aware of when it is coming your way as you can move out of its path.
Try to avoid fighting an opponent affected by Tidecaller's Blessing, it lasts a short duration so waiting it out can help you greatly.
Aatrox vs Nami Counter Stats
How to Counter Nami with Aatrox in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several strategic Aatrox vs. Nami counter statistics that can help us realize the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Aatrox’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nami’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Aatrox may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Nami. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Aatrox usually has a much larger longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Nami. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Aatrox and Nami
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Who is Better, Aatrox or Nami?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Aatrox usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Nami, with a 50.0% win rate. Therefore, Aatrox makes an ok counter for Nami.
While Aatrox does have a higher win rate than Nami, when facing one another, Aatrox also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Aatrox into Nami.
Additionally, Aatrox also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nami. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Aatrox vs Nami matchups, Nami is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Aatrox is a decent counter for Nami. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Aatrox against Nami.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Aatrox to counter Nami during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aatrox typically accumulates much more CS compared to Nami. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Aatrox versus Nami build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Spear of Shojin. When Aatrox incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better when facing Nami than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Aatrox had an average win rate of 50.0% when countering Nami with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Nami as Aatrox, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Revitalize, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Aatrox vs Nami clashes, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.0% win rate overall.
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