Vladimir vs Nami
How to Beat Nami as Vladimir
based on 3,292 Vladimir vs Nami matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vladimir vs Nami Matchup Summary
Best Vladimir vs Nami Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nami as Vladimir
Tips for Playing as Vladimir against Nami
Transfusion instantly deals damage to the enemy before healing Vladimir, making it one of the best last hitting tools in the game.
Cast Hemoplague where it will afflict the most units.
Sanguine Pool pops incoming missiles, so it can be used to dodge disables.
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.
Vladimir vs Nami Counter Stats
How to Counter Nami with Vladimir in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show several influential Vladimir against Nami matchup stats that may help you explain the distinctions between the pair. Vladimir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nami’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Vladimir may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Nami. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Vladimir normally has a much larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives more damage than Nami. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Vladimir and Nami
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Who is Better, Vladimir or Nami?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Vladimir usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Nami, with a 49.5% win rate. Therefore, Vladimir makes an ok counter for Nami.
While Vladimir does have a lower win rate than Nami, when on opposite teams, Vladimir also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Vladimir into Namias his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Vladimir also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nami. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Vladimir vs Nami matchups, Nami is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Vladimir is a somewhat poor counter for Nami. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Vladimir against Nami.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Vladimir in order to counter Nami during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vladimir usually picks up much more CS compared to Nami. Champions who on average don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Vladimir versus Nami build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Cosmic Drive, and Stormsurge. When Vladimir bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting Nami than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Vladimir had an average win rate of 49.5% when countering Nami with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Nami as Vladimir, you should use the Summon Aery, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Scorch, Last Stand, and Triumph runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Vladimir vs Nami matchups, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.5% winrate overall.
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