Kai'Sa vs Nami
How to Beat Nami as Kai'Sa
based on 4,477 Kai'Sa vs Nami matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kai'Sa vs Nami Matchup Summary
Best Kai'Sa vs Nami Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nami as Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa against Nami
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
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.
Kai'Sa vs Nami Counter Stats
How to Counter Nami with Kai'Sa in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify some important Kai'Sa versus Nami matchup statistics that may help you understand the distinctions between this set of champs. Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nami’s ratio of NaN, showing that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Nami. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Kai'Sa usually has a much larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Nami. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kai'Sa and Nami
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Who is Better, Kai'Sa or Nami?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kai'Sa usually loses when playing against Nami, with a 47.3% win rate. As a result, Kai'Sa makes a poor counter to Nami.
While Kai'Sa does have a lower win rate than Nami, when facing one another, Kai'Sa also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging champ to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Kai'Sa into Nami.
Additionally, Kai'Sa also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nami. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa vs Nami matchups, Nami is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Kai'Sa is a trash counter to Nami. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Kai'Sa against Nami.
Other Champion Matchups Against Kai'Sa
Additional Information for Kai'Sa Players
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kai'Sa to counter Nami during both the laning 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 tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa often picks up much more CS as Nami. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The best items to have in your Kai'Sa versus Nami build include Guardian Angel, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Kai'Sa combined at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better vs. Nami than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Kai'Sa boasted an average winrate of 47.3% when playing against Nami with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Nami as Kai'Sa, Kai'Sa players should use the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Kai'Sa vs Nami counter picks, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.3% win rate overall.
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