Nami vs Illaoi
How to Beat Illaoi as Nami
based on 1,743 Nami vs Illaoi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nami vs Illaoi Matchup Summary
Best Nami vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Illaoi as Nami
Tips for Playing as Nami against Illaoi
Nami's ultimate can come in very handy for initiating on enemies who are far away.
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.
Advice to Win Against Illaoi
Killing Tentacles whenever possible will make it much easier to win a fight against Illaoi.
When your spirit gets pulled out, fight back if you can. Dealing damage to Illaoi reduces the spirit's duration.
Avoid grouping up for Leap of Faith to reduce the number of Tentacles available to Illaoi.
Nami vs Illaoi Counter Stats
How to Counter Illaoi with Nami in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several significant Nami vs. Illaoi counter statistics that can help us realize the distinctions between the two. For instance, Nami’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Illaoi’s ratio of NaN, showing that Nami may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Illaoi. 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. On average, she takes less damage than Illaoi. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nami and Illaoi
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Who is Better, Nami or Illaoi?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nami usually fairs equally well when taking on Illaoi, with a 49.0% win rate. As a result, Nami makes an ok counter for Illaoi.
While Nami does have a lower win rate than Illaoi, when facing one another, Nami also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more complex champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Nami into Illaoi.
Moreover, Nami has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Illaoi. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nami vs Illaoi matchups, Illaoi is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Nami is a somewhat poor counter for Illaoi. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Nami against Illaoi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nami in order to counter Illaoi during both the early game 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 listen to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nami on average racks up a lot less CS as Illaoi. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Nami versus Illaoi build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Ardent Censer, and Imperial Mandate. When Nami incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did much better against Illaoi than with most other common item sets. In fact, Nami boasted an average win rate of 49.0% when playing against Illaoi with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing Illaoi as Nami, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Nami vs Illaoi matchups, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Illaoi as Nami are given for all skill levels combined. To narrow the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you may use the selection menu located at the top of this page.