Nami vs Kindred
How to Beat Kindred as Nami
based on 2,080 Nami vs Kindred matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nami vs Kindred Matchup Summary
Best Nami vs Kindred Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kindred as Nami
Tips for Playing as Nami against Kindred
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 Win Against Kindred
When Kindred uses Lamb's Respite get inside, it stops all champions from dying.
Kindred is fragile - turn the pressure up on her, and she will be forced to play cautiously.
Clear the Hunts Wolf activates on jungle camps to slow down Kindred's damage output.
Nami vs Kindred Counter Stats
How to Counter Kindred with Nami in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some vital Nami against Kindred counter statistics that may help you understand the differences and similarities between the two. Nami’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kindred’s ratio of NaN, showing that Nami may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Kindred. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Nami usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. Typically, she receives less damage than Kindred. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nami and Kindred
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Who is Better, Nami or Kindred?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nami usually fairs equally well when taking on Kindred, with a 50.7% win rate. Thus, Nami makes an ok counter for Kindred.
While Nami does have a higher win rate than Kindred, when they face off with one another, Nami also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Nami into Kindred.
Moreover, Nami also has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kindred. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nami vs Kindred matchups, Nami is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Nami is a decent counter for Kindred. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Nami against Kindred.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nami in order to counter Kindred during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nami on average racks up less CS relative to Kindred. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to have in your Nami versus Kindred build include Ardent Censer, Dream Maker, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Nami combined at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better versus Kindred than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nami boasted an average win rate of 50.7% when countering Kindred with this build.
To have the best chance of beating Kindred as Nami, Nami players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Nami vs Kindred matchups, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.7% winrate overall.
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