Kassadin with Nami
How to Synergize Kassadin and Nami
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Kassadin Nami Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kassadin and Nami
Tips for Playing as Kassadin with Nami
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
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.
Kassadin Nami Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nami as Kassadin in LoL
The Kassadin 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, Kassadin sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nami. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Nami helps Kassadin perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kassadin plays on the same team as Nami, he gets a little decrease in his total damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Nami does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Kassadin is played with Nami on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Nami.
Additionally, when Kassadin plays with Nami on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Nami does a decent job of protecting Kassadin during teamfights.
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Is Kassadin better when played alongside Nami?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Kassadin that will no matter what be his top teammate. However, overall, Nami is a below average teammate for Kassadin. By being on the same side as Kassadin, she decreases their win rate by -1.5% to 48.5%. This shows that there is a harmful bond between Kassadin and Nami that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Nami has a much lower diffuclty than Kassadin. That means Kassadin players don't need to be cautious when lining up Nami teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Kassadin players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Kassadin and Nami together, you probably will not be providing your team enough anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Nami ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Kassadin to synergize with Nami during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Kassadin and Nami synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Malignance, and Stormsurge. When Kassadin used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Nami than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Kassadin had an average win rate of 48.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nami with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, Kassadin players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.5% win rate overall.
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