Zoe vs Nami
How to Beat Nami as Zoe
based on 1,403 Zoe vs Nami matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zoe vs Nami Matchup Summary
Best Zoe vs Nami Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Zoe Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Nami as Zoe
Tips for Playing as Zoe against Nami
Sleepy Trouble Bubble travels further over walls. Find a hiding spot to set up for a long distance kill.
Break Sleep with your biggest damage source, since enemies who are asleep take double damage.
Paddle Star deals more damage the further it has flown. Casting it behind yourself before redirecting can deal tons of damage.
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.
Zoe vs Nami Counter Stats
How to Counter Nami with Zoe in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some critical Zoe vs. Nami counter stats that can help us understand the differences between the pair. For instance, Zoe’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nami’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zoe may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Nami. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Zoe normally has a much larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Nami. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zoe and Nami
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Zoe or Nami?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zoe usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Nami, with a 49.7% win rate. Thus, Zoe makes an ok counter for Nami.
While Zoe does have a lower winrate than Nami, when they face off with one another, Zoe also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more complex character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Zoe into Nami.
Moreover, Zoe also 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 fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zoe vs Nami matchups, Nami is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Zoe is a somewhat poor counter for Nami. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zoe against Nami.
Other Champion Matchups Against Zoe
Additional Information for Zoe Players
How We Calculated Our Zoe vs Nami Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Zoe in order to counter Nami during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zoe on average racks up much more CS relative 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. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Zoe versus Nami build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Zoe bought at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when facing Nami than with most other common builds. In fact, Zoe boasted an average win rate of 49.7% battling Nami with this counter build.
To have the best chance of beating Nami as Zoe, you should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Zoe vs Nami face-offs, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.7% winrate overall.
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