Darius vs Nami
How to Beat Nami as Darius
based on 3,720 Darius vs Nami matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Darius vs Nami Matchup Summary
Best Darius vs Nami Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nami as Darius
Tips for Playing as Darius against Nami
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
Advice to Win Against Nami
Aqua Prison is a very powerful ability with a long cooldown, take advantage of the situation if Nami misses this ability.
Tidal Wave has a very long range but travels slowly, be aware of when it is coming your way as you can move out of its path.
Try to avoid fighting an opponent affected by Tidecaller's Blessing, it lasts a short duration so waiting it out can help you greatly.
Darius vs Nami Counter Stats
How to Counter Nami with Darius in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize several significant Darius vs. Nami counter statistics that can help you distinguish the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Darius’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nami’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Darius may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Nami. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Darius often has a much larger longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Nami. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Darius and Nami
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Who is Better, Darius or Nami?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Darius usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Nami, with a 50.6% win rate. Therefore, Darius makes an ok counter for Nami.
While Darius does have a higher winrate than Nami, when on opposite teams, Darius also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Darius into Nami.
Additionally, Darius also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nami. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Darius vs Nami matchups, Darius is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Darius is a decent counter to Nami. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Darius against Nami.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Darius in order to counter Nami during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Darius often picks up much more CS compared to Nami. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Darius versus Nami build include Sterak's Gage, Dead Man's Plate, and Sundered Sky. When Darius used at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting Nami than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Darius had an average win rate of 50.6% when playing against Nami with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Nami as Darius, Darius players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Darius vs Nami fights, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Nami as Darius are presented for all skill levels, merged. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.