Nami vs Volibear
How to Beat Volibear as Nami
based on 2,240 Nami vs Volibear matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nami vs Volibear Matchup Summary
Best Nami vs Volibear Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Volibear as Nami
Tips for Playing as Nami against Volibear
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.
Nami vs Volibear Counter Stats
How to Counter Volibear with Nami in LoL
The stats shown here clarify some valuable Nami vs. Volibear matchup statistics that may help us explain the differences and similarities between these two champions. As an example, Nami’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Volibear’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Nami may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Volibear. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Nami usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her foe does. On average, she takes less damage than Volibear. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nami and Volibear
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Who is Better, Nami or Volibear?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nami usually wins when facing off against Volibear, with a 52.3% win rate. Thus, Nami makes a good counter for Volibear.
While Nami does have a higher winrate compared to Volibear, when they face off with one another, Nami also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Nami into Volibear.
Moreover, Nami has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Volibear. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nami vs Volibear matchups, Nami is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Nami is an above average counter to Volibear. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Nami against Volibear.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nami in order to counter Volibear during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed 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 compared to Volibear. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Nami versus Volibear build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Ardent Censer, and Imperial Mandate. When Nami combined at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better against Volibear than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Nami boasted an average win rate of 52.3% when countering Volibear with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Volibear as Nami, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Nami vs Volibear matchups, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.3% winrate overall.
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