Heimerdinger with Nami
How to Synergize Heimerdinger and Nami
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Heimerdinger Nami Synergy Summary
Best Heimerdinger vs Nami Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Heimerdinger and Nami
Tips for Playing as Heimerdinger with Nami
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
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.
Heimerdinger Nami Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nami as Heimerdinger in LoL
The Heimerdinger 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, Heimerdinger sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nami. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Nami helps Heimerdinger perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Heimerdinger is an ally to Nami, he observes a little increase in his full damage output. This could indicate that Nami helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Heimerdinger is played alongside Nami on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Nami.
Moreover, when Heimerdinger plays with Nami on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Nami does a poor job of protecting Heimerdinger during teamfights.
Synergies between Heimerdinger and Nami
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Is Heimerdinger better when played alongside Nami?
There is no top companion for Heimerdinger that will no matter what be his top ally. However, overall, Nami is a relatively poor teammate for Heimerdinger. By being on the same team as Heimerdinger, she lowers their win rate by -1.7% to 47.9%. This signals that there is a negative strategic relationship between Heimerdinger and Nami that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Nami has a much lower diffuclty than Heimerdinger. That means Heimerdinger players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Nami teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Heimerdinger and Nami together, you probably will not be granting your team a great deal of attack damage. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Nami teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Heimerdinger in order to synergize with Nami during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to have in your Heimerdinger and Nami synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Heimerdinger incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Nami than with many other common item sets. In fact, Heimerdinger boasted an average win rate of 47.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nami with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Heimerdinger and Nami pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.9% win rate overall.
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