Vex vs Nami
How to Beat Nami as Vex
based on 1,984 Vex vs Nami matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vex vs Nami Matchup Summary
Best Vex vs Nami Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nami as Vex
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.
Vex vs Nami Counter Stats
How to Counter Nami with Vex in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several valuable Vex against Nami counter stats that may help you interpret the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Vex’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nami’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Vex may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Nami. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Vex normally has a much larger longest kill spree than their enemy does. On average, they receives a similar amount of damage to Nami. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Vex and Nami
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Who is Better, Vex or Nami?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Vex usually loses when trying to fight Nami, with a 47.4% win rate. Thus, Vex makes a bad counter for Nami.
While Vex does have a lower winrate compared to Nami, when facing one another, Vex also has a much lower learning curve that makes them a less complex champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Vex into Nami.
Additionally, Vex has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nami. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Vex vs Nami matchups, Nami is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Vex is a trash counter for Nami. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Vex against Nami.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Vex to counter Nami during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention 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.
Vex usually picks up much more CS compared to Nami. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Vex versus Nami build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vex included at least these three pieces in their build, they performed much better when fighting Nami than with many other common builds. In fact, Vex had an average win rate of 47.4% battling Nami with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Nami as Vex, you should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Vex vs Nami clashes, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.4% win rate overall.
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