Brand vs Nami
How to Beat Nami as Brand
based on 6,289 Brand vs Nami matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Brand vs Nami Matchup Summary
Best Brand vs Nami Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nami as Brand
Tips for Playing as Brand against Nami
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
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.
Brand vs Nami Counter Stats
How to Counter Nami with Brand in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some valuable Brand versus Nami counter statistics that may help you grasp the distinctions between this set of champions. As an example, Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nami’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Nami. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Brand normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives more damage than Nami. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Brand and Nami
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Who is Better, Brand or Nami?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Brand usually wins when playing against Nami, with a 52.5% win rate. Therefore, Brand makes a good counter to Nami.
While Brand does have a higher winrate compared to Nami, when on opposite teams, Brand also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming champ to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Brand into Nami.
Furthermore, Brand also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nami. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Brand vs Nami matchups, Brand is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Brand is an above average counter for Nami. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Brand against Nami.
Other Champion Matchups Against Brand
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Brand in order to counter Nami during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand most often gets more CS relative to Nami. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions 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 on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Brand versus Nami build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting Nami than with most other common builds. In fact, Brand boasted an average winrate of 52.5% when playing against Nami with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Nami as Brand, you should use the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Brand vs Nami counterpicks, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.5% winrate overall.
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