Nami vs Viktor
How to Beat Viktor as Nami
based on 1,664 Nami vs Viktor matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nami vs Viktor Matchup Summary
Best Nami vs Viktor Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Viktor as Nami
Tips for Playing as Nami against Viktor
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 Viktor
Be careful about how close you let Viktor get to you. Viktor's control of the battlefield increases with his proximity to his opponent.
Be aware of how many augments Viktor has upgraded by looking at the color of the light on his staff (purple, yellow, blue, red).
Nami vs Viktor Counter Stats
How to Counter Viktor with Nami in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several important Nami versus Viktor matchup statistics that may help us figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. Nami’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Viktor’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nami may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Viktor. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Nami typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her matchup does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Viktor. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nami and Viktor
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Who is Better, Nami or Viktor?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nami usually loses when playing against Viktor, with a 46.3% win rate. Therefore, Nami makes a bad counter to Viktor.
While Nami does have a lower win rate compared to Viktor, when on opposite teams, Nami also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Nami into Viktor.
Additionally, Nami also has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Viktor. This 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 overall in League of Legends, in Nami vs Viktor matchups, Viktor is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Nami is a terribly counter for Viktor. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nami against Viktor.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nami to counter Viktor during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nami most often gets a lot less CS as Viktor. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Nami versus Viktor build include Ardent Censer, Imperial Mandate, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Nami included at least these three items in her build, she did much better against Viktor than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nami had an average win rate of 46.3% when playing against Viktor with this build.
To have the best probability of defeating Viktor as Nami, Nami players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Nami vs Viktor counter picks, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.3% win rate overall.
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