Katarina vs Nami
How to Beat Nami as Katarina
based on 3,937 Katarina vs Nami matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Nami Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Nami Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nami as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Nami
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina vs Nami Counter Stats
How to Counter Nami with Katarina in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some critical Katarina against Nami counter stats that may help us realize the differences and similarities between this set of champions. For instance, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nami’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Nami. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Katarina often has a much larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. On average, she takes more damage than Nami. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Katarina and Nami
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Who is Better, Katarina or Nami?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually fairs equally well when playing against Nami, with a 50.1% win rate. Therefore, Katarina makes an ok counter for Nami.
While Katarina does have a higher winrate compared to Nami, when they face off with one another, Katarina also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Katarina into Namias her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Katarina has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nami. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Nami matchups, Katarina is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Katarina is a decent counter to Nami. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Katarina against Nami.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Katarina 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 lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina often accumulates much more CS compared to Nami. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Katarina versus Nami build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Katarina combined at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better countering Nami than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average winrate of 50.1% battling Nami with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of crushing Nami as Katarina, you should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Katarina vs Nami counters, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Nami as Katarina are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to filter the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.