Nami with Kayn
How to Synergize Nami and Kayn
based on 4,881 Nami with Kayn pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nami Kayn Synergy Summary
Best Nami vs Kayn Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Nami Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Synergizing Nami and Kayn
Tips for Playing as Nami with Kayn
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 Kayn Will Play
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
Nami Kayn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kayn as Nami in LoL
The Nami Kayn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kayn, 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 Kayn. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kayn helps Nami perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nami plays on the same team as Kayn, she observes a marginal improvement in her full damage dealt. This change may signal that Kayn supports by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Nami is played alongside Kayn on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Kayn. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Kayn.
Moreover, when Nami plays with Kayn on the same side, she typically receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Kayn does a poor job of protecting Nami during teamfights.
Synergies between Nami and Kayn
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Contrasted
Is Nami better when played alongside Kayn?
There is no one best companion for Nami that will no matter what be her top ally. However, overall, Kayn is a very typical companion for Nami. By playing on the same team as Nami, he drops their win rate by -0.5% to 48.6%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Nami and Kayn that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Kayn has a greater difficulty than Nami. That means you should be cautious when lining up Kayn allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Working alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by bringing Nami and Kayn together, you may not be providing your other teammates a great deal of magic damage. Plan to include other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Kayn ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
Other Champion Matchups Against Nami
Other Top Synergies by Role
Additional Information for Nami Players
How We Calculated Our Nami Kayn Synergy Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Nami in order to synergize with Kayn during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Nami and Kayn synergy build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Dream Maker, and Moonstone Renewer. When Nami used at least these three items in her build, she did much better when fighting alongside Kayn than with most other common builds. In fact, Nami had an average win rate of 48.6% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Kayn with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Font of Life, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Nami and Kayn pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Kayn with Nami are presented for every ranked division. To filter the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.