Alistar with Nami
How to Synergize Alistar and Nami
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Alistar Nami Synergy Summary
Best Alistar vs Nami Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Nami
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Nami
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Advice to Understand How Nami Will Play
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.
Alistar Nami Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nami as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar Nami synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nami, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Alistar sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nami. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Nami helps Alistar perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Alistar tries to synergize with Nami, he observes a massive increase in his full damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Nami provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played with Nami on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Nami. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Nami.
Moreover, when Alistar plays with Nami on the same side, he often takes significantly more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Nami does a poor job of covering Alistar in team fights.
Synergies between Alistar and Nami
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Nami?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Alistar that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Nami is a terrible ally for Alistar. By playing on the same side as Alistar, she decreases their win rate by -3.8% to 45.6%. This shows that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Alistar and Nami that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Nami has a lower difficulty than Alistar. That means Alistar players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Nami teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working alongside, Alistar players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide utility and CC for your side. Combined, these champions may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Alistar and Nami together, you will not be providing your other allies enough anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Nami ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Alistar in order to synergize with Nami during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Alistar and Nami synergy build include Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Frozen Heart. When Alistar bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Nami than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Alistar had an average winrate of 45.6% when playing alongside Nami with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 45.6% winrate overall.
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