Irelia vs Nami
How to Beat Nami as Irelia
based on 2,955 Irelia vs Nami matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Irelia vs Nami Matchup Summary
Best Irelia vs Nami Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nami as Irelia
Tips for Playing as Irelia against Nami
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
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.
Irelia vs Nami Counter Stats
How to Counter Nami with Irelia in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some strategic Irelia against Nami matchup stats that may help you grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Irelia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nami’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Irelia may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Nami. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Irelia typically has a much larger longest killing spree than her counter does. Typically, she takes more damage than Nami. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Irelia and Nami
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Who is Better, Irelia or Nami?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Irelia usually fairs equally well when taking on Nami, with a 50.3% win rate. As a result, Irelia makes an ok counter for Nami.
While Irelia does have a higher win rate compared to Nami, when they face off with one another, Irelia also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Irelia into Nami.
Moreover, Irelia also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nami. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, 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 Irelia vs Nami matchups, Irelia is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Irelia is a decent counter to Nami. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Irelia against Nami.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Irelia to counter Nami during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Irelia most often gets much more CS as Nami. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Irelia versus Nami build include Sterak's Gage, Blade of The Ruined King, and Sundered Sky. When Irelia incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better vs Nami than with many other common item sets. In fact, Irelia had an average winrate of 50.3% when playing against Nami with this counter build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Nami as Irelia, Irelia players should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Irelia vs Nami matchups, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.3% winrate overall.
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