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.
Be wary of Heimerdinger's Upgrade!!!, as he can use it to find an answer to most trouble he gets into. Once his ultimate is down, go in for the kill!
It's better to destroy all of Heimerdinger's turrets at once with the help of creeps than to fight them one at a time.
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several valuable Nami against Heimerdinger matchup statistics that may help you interpret the distinctions between these two champs. As an example, Nami’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Heimerdinger’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nami may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Heimerdinger. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Nami typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Heimerdinger. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nami usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Heimerdinger, with a 50.6% win rate. Thus, Nami makes an ok counter for Heimerdinger.
While Nami does have a higher win rate than Heimerdinger, when facing one another, Nami also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Nami into Heimerdinger.
Furthermore, Nami has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Heimerdinger. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nami vs Heimerdinger matchups, Nami is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Nami is a decent counter for Heimerdinger. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Nami against Heimerdinger.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nami to counter Heimerdinger during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nami often gets a lot less CS relative to Heimerdinger. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Nami versus Heimerdinger build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Dream Maker, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Nami used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs. Heimerdinger than with most other common builds. In fact, Nami had an average winrate of 50.6% when playing against Heimerdinger with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Heimerdinger as Nami, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Nami vs Heimerdinger matchups, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Heimerdinger as Nami are shown for all ranked divisions. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual division, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.