Proposed Nami Tweak

Noraver·9/12/2019, 1:19:31 PM·2 votes·1,039 views

Nami's engagement is a little sloppy mid to late-game these days with all of the mobility in the meta. At this point though, she doesn't really need additional damage or healing to keep up, but everyone else is so mobile that she feels comparatively weak in the engagement category for Supports (Pyke, Thresh, Nautilus, Galio, Shen, Mao all come to mind). Despite Tidal Wave having a great big range for it, her spells these days are used more as a reaction (Tidal Wave > Bubble to keep people off your ADC for two seconds before they blow up anyway).

I would propose one of the following:

  1. A small Width increase to her ultimate with Ranks 2 and 3; This would help her feel like throwing it down mid-lane is a powerful choice, and not have enemies just say "lol, Imma just side-step that"
  2. An additional wave for each level coming shortly after the first (At reduced damage, of course)
  3. The ability to re-activate it to produce a large splash with a knock-back or knock-up and slow

Again, she doesn't need huge buffs, but she does feel a little one-dimensional in combat, and her ult arguably feels like it has the least amount of impact in her kit. Hell, Glacial Augment and Hextech Revolver have more of an impact on team fights than her best ability does.

Thoughts and opinions?

3 Comments

Tobykachu9/12/2019, 1:52:04 PM1 votes

Nami isn't a support that's supposed to be great at engages? She's already very strong with consistent heals, a damage steroid for her ADC and some good CC to help peel for her team. If her engage was godlike too then she'd just completely overshadow every other support.

Daddy Ants9/12/2019, 1:59:41 PM1 votes

No Nami buffs.

She's fine as she is.

FOR JUSTICE9/12/2019, 2:47:23 PM1 votes

Thats because her ult isnt for engage, its designed to stack with someone elses engage or used as a disengage.

Reactive, not pro active (which is why its so slow)