Zed vs Nami
How to Beat Nami as Zed
based on 3,990 Zed vs Nami matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Nami Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Nami Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nami as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Nami
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed vs Nami Counter Stats
How to Counter Nami with Zed in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several significant Zed versus Nami matchup statistics that may help us figure out the differences between the pair. For instance, Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nami’s ratio of NaN, showing that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Nami. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Zed often has a much larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives more damage than Nami. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zed and Nami
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Who is Better, Zed or Nami?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Zed usually fairs equally well when facing off against Nami, with a 49.9% win rate. Therefore, Zed makes an ok counter for Nami.
While Zed does have a lower win rate compared to Nami, when facing one another, Zed also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Zed into Namias his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Zed has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nami. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zed 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 teamfights.
Zed is a somewhat poor counter to Nami. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zed against Nami.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Zed in order to counter Nami during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed on average gets much more CS compared to Nami. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Zed versus Nami build consist of Axiom Arc, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Zed combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better vs Nami than with most other typical builds. In fact, Zed boasted an average win rate of 49.9% battling Nami with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating Nami as Zed, Zed players should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Zed vs Nami battles, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Nami as Zed are given for every ranked division. If you want to filter the stats and builds to a distinct skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.