Nami vs Rengar
How to Beat Rengar as Nami
based on 3,882 Nami vs Rengar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nami vs Rengar Matchup Summary
Best Nami vs Rengar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rengar as Nami
Tips for Playing as Nami against Rengar
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 Rengar
Rengar's passive enables him to leap out of brush, so avoid fighting him when near bushes.
Rengar puts an indicator over the nearest enemy champion when he is camouflaged during his ultimate.
Rengar gains an empowered ability when his resource bar is full. Try to confront him when it's low.
Nami vs Rengar Counter Stats
How to Counter Rengar with Nami in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several critical Nami versus Rengar counter statistics that may help you distinguish the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Nami’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Rengar’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Nami may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Rengar. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Nami normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her foe does. On average, she takes less damage than Rengar. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nami and Rengar
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Who is Better, Nami or Rengar?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nami usually loses when facing off against Rengar, with a 48.4% win rate. Thus, Nami makes a poor counter for Rengar.
While Nami does have a lower win rate compared to Rengar, when on opposite teams, Nami also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less complex champ to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Nami into Rengar.
Furthermore, Nami has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rengar. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Nami vs Rengar matchups, Rengar is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Nami is a somewhat poor counter to Rengar. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Nami against Rengar.
Other Champion Matchups Against Nami
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nami in order to counter Rengar 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 stats presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nami on average racks up less CS compared to Rengar. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. 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 require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Nami versus Rengar build include Redemption, Ardent Censer, and Dream Maker. When Nami combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better vs Rengar than with most other common builds. In fact, Nami had an average winrate of 48.4% when playing against Rengar with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Rengar as Nami, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Font of Life, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Nami vs Rengar battles, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.4% winrate overall.
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