Nami with Irelia
How to Synergize Nami and Irelia
based on 2,807 Nami with Irelia pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nami Irelia Synergy Summary
Best Nami vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nami and Irelia
Tips for Playing as Nami with Irelia
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.
Advice to Understand How Irelia Will Play
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
Nami Irelia Synergy Stats
How to Play with Irelia as Nami in LoL
The Nami Irelia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Irelia, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Nami sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Irelia. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Irelia helps Nami perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nami plays on the same team as Irelia, she sees a small increase in her full damage dealt. This difference may signal that Irelia supports by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Nami is played alongside Irelia on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Irelia.
Moreover, when Nami plays with Irelia on the same side, she often takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Irelia does a decent job of protecting Nami during teamfights.
Synergies between Nami and Irelia
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Is Nami better when played alongside Irelia?
There is no ideal companion for Nami that will always be her best teammate. Yet, overall, Irelia is a very typical teammate for Nami. By playing on the same team as Nami, she increases their win rate by 0.1% to 49.2%. This proves that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Nami and Irelia that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Irelia has a lower difficulty than Nami. That means Nami players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Irelia teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
When playing together, Nami players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide utility and CC for your side. Combined, these two will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Conversely, by grouping Nami and Irelia together, you may not be giving your other teammates enough engage potential. Plan to include other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Irelia ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Nami to work well with Irelia during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Nami and Irelia synergy build include Dream Maker, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Nami combined at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Irelia than with most other common item sets. In fact, Nami boasted an average win rate of 49.2% helping carry Irelia with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Irelia with Nami are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.