Using Ebb and Flow during an engagement with enemy champions will help sway the battle in your favor.
Aqua Prison has a long cooldown, make sure to use it at the right moment.
Nami's ultimate can come in very handy for initiating on enemies who are far away.
Ashe has very few defensive options, and she's a good target to gank.
Be wary of moving around the map alone if Ashe has not recently cast her Enchanted Crystal Arrow.
The stat comparisons provided here feature some valuable Nami versus Ashe counter statistics that may help you realize the differences and similarities between these two champions. As an example, Nami’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Ashe’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Nami may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Ashe. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Nami usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Ashe. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nami usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Ashe, with a 49.4% win rate. Therefore, Nami makes an ok counter for Ashe.
While Nami does have a lower win rate than Ashe, when on opposite teams, Nami also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Nami into Ashe.
Furthermore, Nami has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ashe. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Nami vs Ashe matchups, Ashe is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Nami is a somewhat poor counter to Ashe. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nami against Ashe.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nami in order to counter Ashe during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nami usually racks up a lot less CS as Ashe. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to have in your Nami versus Ashe build include Imperial Mandate, Mikael's Blessing, and Shard of True Ice. When Nami incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed much better vs. Ashe than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Nami boasted an average winrate of 49.4% when countering Ashe with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Ashe as Nami, Nami players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Nami vs Ashe matchups, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.4% winrate overall.
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