Nami guide: build, runes, matchups and mistakes to avoid

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Nami in figures

Games as a support

38,16799.9% of its games

Win rate

52.1%

Pick rate

≈ 10.1%

Ban rate

≈ 1.6%

The figures come from 378,251 ranked solo games on EUW (patches 16.18 to 16.21, Riot’s official API, up to 24 October 2026): the same sample as Gankademy’s champion pages. “≈”: a figure the app gives as indicative.

Strengths and weaknesses

When Nami is strongest

The build that wins most

A build, here, is the order of the first three finished items. Out of the 4,270 Nami games as a support where they are known, the three most-played paths:

Build	Items	Played	Win rate
Moonstone first	››	16%	≈ 56.5%
Censer first	››	9%	≈ 59.0%
Flowing Water	››	4%	≈ 59.8%

Echoes of Helia opens all three most-played builds. The most common follow-up, Moonstone Renewer then Ardent Censer, wins least of the three: taking Ardent Censer before Moonstone Renewer wins more often (≈ 59.0% against ≈ 56.5%), and ending with Staff of Flowing Water also does better, on far fewer games.

With build 1, the game most often starts with 2 × Health Potion + Stealth Ward, and the boots are Ionian Boots of Lucidity (98% of games).

Depending on the game

What build 1’s players buy next (5% of its games or more):

Item	Bought	Why
Staff of Flowing Water	7%	damage

Skill order

Level by level, the most-played order as a support: 47% of the 299 games where Nami reaches level 18.

Q			3											14	15		17	18
W	1			4	5		7		9
E		2						8		10		12	13
R						6					11					16

The second order, in 21% of them: Q at level 2 and E at level 3.

Runes and summoner spells

The most-played rune pages of Nami as a support, by keystone and trees:

Page	Games	Win rate
Summon AerySorcery + Resolve	29,065	52.2%
Summon AerySorcery + Inspiration	6,804	52.8%
ElectrocuteDomination + Sorcery	1,119	48.4%
Summon AerySorcery + Domination	303	50.2%

Summon Aery is Nami’s keystone in the vast majority of games, mostly with Resolve behind it; with Inspiration, it wins a little more. Electrocute, her only other keystone among the most-played pages, wins clearly less (48.4%).

Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, Revitalize

Summoner spells: Flash + Heal in 80% of games.

Matchups: the easiest and the hardest

Nami’s win rate against each opponent in the same role, against the usual 52.1%: the gap in points, from 200 games.

Easiest against

Opponent	Games	Win rate	Gap
Ashe	316	≈ 59.2%	+7.1
Maokai	327	≈ 57.2%	+5.1
Xerath	555	≈ 56.2%	+4.1

Hardest against

Opponent	Games	Win rate	Gap
Leona	1,724	≈ 48.4%	−3.7
Blitzcrank	1,329	≈ 48.5%	−3.6
Braum	904	≈ 48.9%	−3.2
Milio	1,523	≈ 49.1%	−3.0

Nami’s hardest lanes are the engage supports who reach her first — Leona, Blitzcrank —, Braum, and Milio, whose ultimate frees and heals his allies. Against Blitzcrank, stay behind your minions; against Leona, keep your bubble for the moment she lands. Against Ashe, Maokai or Xerath, the lane is yours: Ashe and Xerath have no dash to dodge your bubble.

Matchup sheet

The 12 most frequent opponents as a support. The difficulty is the app’s: the gap with the usual 52.1%, and whether it holds.

Opponent	Games	Win rate	Difficulty
Thresh	2,601	≈ 49.5%	Hard
Lulu	2,207	53.5%	Even
Lux	2,015	53.7%	Even
Seraphine	1,804	52.3%	Even
Nautilus	1,754	51.2%	Even
Leona	1,724	≈ 48.4%	Hard
Milio	1,523	≈ 49.1%	Hard
Blitzcrank	1,329	≈ 48.5%	Hard
Senna	1,293	53.6%	Even
Janna	1,210	49.9%	Even
Morgana	1,143	51.1%	Even
Soraka	1,139	49.8%	Even

Bans to consider

The opponents Nami beats least often as a support, among those met at least 300 times:

Opponent	Win rate	Games
Leona	≈ 48.4%	1,724
Blitzcrank	≈ 48.5%	1,329
Braum	≈ 48.9%	904

What the specialists do

18 players of the sample play Nami in at least 40% of their games, and at least 30 times. Their 853 games as a support, against all its players:

	Specialists	All players
Win rate	≈ 56.5%	52.1%
Build	Same 22%	›› 16%
Rune page	Same 77%	76%
Skills maxed	Same 89%	W›E›Q 90%

Same choices as all the players. Their win rate: 4.4 points higher.

The most frequent mistakes

Two habits measured on the 9,473 games with a timeline, then the champion’s own mistakes. These gaps go with losing without proving the cause.

• Dying before 15 minutes. 36% of games have three or more deaths before the 15th minute; they win only 40.0%, against 61.2% when Nami dies once or less (41% of games). Instead: Nami has no dash — her bubble is her only answer to an engage. Stay level with your marksman, not in front, and keep the bubble for their engage support rather than for poke.
• Placing too few wards. Games where Nami places 9 wards or fewer before 15 minutes (34%) win 50.9%; those with 12 or more (37%), 50.9%. Instead: ward the river before every trade and every objective, with a control ward in the lane brush — your bubble only stops what you see coming.
• Electrocute instead of Summon Aery. Electrocute · Domination + Sorcery is taken in 1,119 Nami games and wins 48.4%, against 52.2% for Summon Aery · Sorcery + Resolve. Instead: Summon Aery, with Resolve or Inspiration.
• Throwing the bubble at a target free to move. Your bubble lands after a short delay: thrown from afar at a free target, it misses. Instead: throw it where the target has to stand — at the end of a dash, on an enemy an ally holds, on a marksman stepping up for a last hit.
• Healing without hitting anyone. Your W bounces between allies and enemies: cast on an ally far from the enemy, it only heals. Instead: in a trade, cast it on the enemy next to your marksman, or on your marksman next to the enemy — it hits one and heals the other.

With Gankademy

These are the figures of Gankademy’s Nami page: the draft compares your options against your lane opponent and imports your rune page in one click. The draft · The coaches · What it reads.

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