Nami Is Becoming More And More Outdated

Best Ekko NA··2 votes·1,218 views

Nami was released 4 years ago before champions like Braum [Braum ] and Yasuo [Yasuo ] existed. As a purely 100% ranged champion with all ranged spells Windwalls make Nami completely useless for her team.

With every new champion released Nami becomes more and more crowded out and less viable as an option in the game.

  • Soraka Sona Taric Soraka, Sona, and even Taric provide much better healing and sustain than Nami.
  • Lulu Janna Lulu and Janna both provide better disengage and utility than Nami.

Nami has extremely low damage, she is very squishy, and her only engage is two very difficult to land skill shots. If you compare that to more updated / newer champions it becomes very clear that there's almost no reason to pick Nami.

  • Bard -- High damage, escape, sustain. Easy to land Stun. Much more useful ultimate.
  • TahmKench -- Extremely Tanky, Does decent amounts of damage. Can save allies with 0 skill involved. Capable of stunning, slowing, and re-positioning enemies.
  • Zyra -- Has monstrous damage not even suitable for a support champion, vision giving seeds. Can root and knock-up enemies.
  • Kled -- Although not a support, I have to include him because he was given basically the same ultimate as Nami in a sense. His very similar nature ultimate means there's little reason to ever need Nami's ultimate.

So what's the deal Riot?

Nami is in desperate need of attention and I really don't understand why she continues to be ignored and only given minor buffs here and there. Nami has all but lost her identity in the game and needs to be fixed starting from the ground up.

14 Comments

Snowdrift4 votes

Not sure if troll? Windwall counters a lot of abilities not just Nami's. Braum is a frustrating matchup but Nami does some pretty good poke and she's fairly safe when doing so. She's my go to support against engage anymore

oSEXYPLATYPUSo2 votes

so dont pick Nami vs heavy dive comps

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[{quoted}](name=MrFawknSunshine ,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=A20EaqMf,comment-id=0000,timestamp=2016-09-09T02:24:26.177+0000)

so dont pick Nami vs heavy dive comps

The point is, there is never any reason to pick Nami at all. In the current state of the game Nami is outclassed by every other support champion in the game and now there's even top laners that can provide the same utility she has. There's absolutely nothing that Nami can do that another champion can't do better.

Marshbouy1 votes

top laners that can provide the same utility she has

such as...?

oSEXYPLATYPUSo1 votes

i am a support main and i never played nami before the last couple of days i played her did well with her. going 1-4-10 one game and 2-3-19 the other game. all champs are viable in the right match up and team comp. get outside the meta box learn match ups and team comps

Marshbouy2 votes

Nami has extremely low damage, she is very squishy, and her only engage is two very difficult to land skill shots.

there is no way her ult is hard to land.

Reaper Soraka2 votes

Are any of those champions you listed better in all of Nami's aspects?

Every single aspect of Nami. Her cc, sustain, damage, mobility, toughness, utility.

I think she's an excellent pick....actually one of the best ones currently for support.

Edit: Here's what I'd like to see of a comparable champion, just to make it fun! You cannot choose more than one champion, because people cannot play more than one champion at a time. *Has a stun.

*has a heal that speeds up allies and damages enemies.

*Must have a spell that has on-hit damage and slow when cast on yourself or an ally. Also must speed up self or ally when cast.

*Has a knock-up and slow on a hard to miss spell. Spell also increases allies double the amount of your other ally-casted spells.

Deep Terror Nami2 votes

her only engage is two very difficult to land skill shots

In what world is Tidal Wave difficult to land? Sure isn't Runeterra.

Marshbouy1 votes

or earth, or mars, or venus, or anywhere.

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[{quoted}](name=Deep Terror Nami,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=A20EaqMf,comment-id=0005,timestamp=2016-09-09T02:35:04.952+0000)

In what world is Tidal Wave difficult to land? Sure isn't Runeterra.

Her ultimate is easily dodged. Hell the projectile moves so slow that if you aren't within about 1000 range of Nami you can just side step it walking with Tier 2 boots. I laugh at myself anytime I'm even hit by it because it moves so slow that there's literally next to no reason to ever get hit by it unless she's point blank right in front of you when she throws it,

Deep Terror Nami1 votes

Practice makes perfect.

Let's assume it's just too slow. Ok so we speed it up. Now you're going to see that you are unable to use it as a zoning tool because it's gone too quickly. I use it to cut people off just as often as I do to actually hit them with it, but I can only do that because it's not terribly fast (they'd just stop for a split second then continue on). Trying to hit them at max range is a desperation move, and any skillshot can be missed easily when done like that.

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Kled

R : Chaaaaaaaarge!!! Range: 5000

ACTIVE: Kled and Skaarl charge toward the target location, automatically navigating around terrain along the way. While charging, the duo gain bonus movement speed and a shield, both increasing over the duration. MAXIMUM SHIELD: 200 / 300 / 400 (+ 300% bonus AD)

The shield lasts for 2 seconds upon finishing the charge. -----> The duo trails a directional draft on their wake for 10 seconds that grants the same movement speed to all allied champions who follow their lead.

Skaarl homes in on the first enemy champion encountered, Airborne icon knocking them back and dealing them physical damage based on the distance traveled.

Marshbouy1 votes

Much more useful ultimate.

you forgot the part about it being a massive troll to anyone who doesn't know how to use it.

Has monstrous damage not even suitable for a support champion, vision giving seeds. Can root and knock-up enemies.

has 0 heals or sustain for their lane buddy.

Although not a support, I have to include him because he was given basically the same ultimate as Nami in a sense. His very similar nature ultimate means there's little reason to ever need Nami's ultimate.

yeah because nami's is single target and doesn't knock up a large number of people while dealing AOE damage. wait what?

Extremely Tanky, Does decent amounts of damage. Can save allies with 0 skill involved. Capable of stunning, slowing, and re-positioning enemies.

you forgot the part where he is insanely immobile and can be kited by almost anyone as long as they can dodge their Q, he's got the lowest winrate against nami too... Also, his stun and damage is very, very slow. he needs 3 autos just to stun and 2 autos plus a Q (or 3 autos) to devour someone.

Soraka, Sona, and even Taric provide much better healing and sustain than Nami.

taric. TARIC FUCKING TARIC?

Your entire list is basically "i am going to compare a bunch of specialized champions to a generalized champion and complain that she isn't good enough in the other champions niches"

RogueWill1 votes

I always though Nami > Sona all around.

I hate the fish bitch anyway so the less I see her the better

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