How can you beat Leona as Nami ?

Peel for my ADC··1 votes·3,354 views

I don't feel like Leona need's a ban , because I usually ban Vladimir or Brand or Morgana . So i was wondering if any of you true Nami mains or support mains in general can give me some advice on this matchup because i've been struggling because i can't peel her off my ADC like you can with other supports .

Can Nami's bubble interrupt leona's E like Janna's tornado can ? Thanks!

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Illabethe2 votes

You Bubble yourself as she's Zenithing. Will prevent the Stun because Zenith is just a root.

Won't work vs a Jhin though since he can long distance W to root you again.

Or just don't get hit with Zenith.

Can't interrupt Zenith but can stop her Q from hitting, and get away.

Kai Guy2 votes

Does your adc have a mobility ability? If so hang back behind them and bubble when she lands Zenith on them. Follow up with W to counter some of the damge they take, put E on yourself and use auto attacks and slow to give your adc more time to get away from her E or Q. Often times she opens with R so if that lands, same thing. just Q after zenith.If she R zenith for teamfights, you R right back to delay her team from gap closing and burn out her duration. You have more CC then she does as nami and you can heal up teammate in lane. Key is to prevent her from locking targets down long enough to get focused and killed.

Peel for my ADC1 votes

I'm not the problem , i know to stay the hell away from leo in that lane . Using the E on myself might actually be a pretty good method to help this if my bubble lands in time . I just started playing Nami alot too take the place on my pool of Janna . She's pretty easy but this is her only really hard matchup I've encountered so far! Thanks for the help man

Kai Guy1 votes

Leo is annoying but the worst is Blitzcrank dudes a bitch if he is good, only takes 1 Q. That displacements just brutal. nami cant react to it well. hits your adc? the blitz and adc are not in same space, hitting blitz is often to little to late, his E and R are already comeing out befor your Q or R connects, the enemy adc can be outside of your effective range. hits you? Your likely toast as the E and R are gonna come out and your adc likely wont have CC or position to stop enemy.

Other then that Nami is one of the best champions to carry as in support. Q has same CC as a Sona R, level 1 its 50% of the damage of a level 6 sona R. she gives ADC kite advantage, passive is free ms, E is free slow. She has the same amount of hard CC as a leo, on an aoe, and some soft cc. And she heals + pokes in the same ability.

Great champ, unless you struggle with QR and burn manna on EW at sub par times. Then a bad champ. She is good at all points in the game and just needs to position well to be relevant.

Glad your playing her thou. Gl and Hf man.

OtterlyLost1 votes

It can interrupt it but the time is fiddly. Generally, you personally just want to avoid getting engaged on as you are squishy and will die. If your AD gets engaged on, aim to bubble the enemy AD as that's who will do most of the damage. Give your ADC a heal afterwards. Early on, you can poke leona out, especially if you're careful to not get all ined.

Kai Guy1 votes

id usualy bubble leo if the enemy adc is not in range. very easy to land, prevents her Q. If the enemy adc engaged first and she follows up it means some ones positioned poorly.

Kubox1 votes

If you aren't, go coin just so you don't have to bother with trying to poke : You're really just looking to survive the lane. Which means do nothing but stand back, possibly behind your carry (at the very least not in front of him).

As for the skirmishes themselves, if you feel bold enough, you can try to bubble the enemy carry and turn on Leo with your carry to punish her. This works especially well if your carry does more damage than the enemy. If he doesn't though, then you want the throw the bubble at your carry, potentially following up with your E on them to give them some kiting maneuver.

Once Leo hits 6 you want to just stay far from your carry and make sure you can ult her back (and her carry, if possible) whenever she uses hers. Once you get out of lane things get a bit simpler as Nami scales better. A Mikael can be a nice buy if your carries tend to eat her ult too much.

Illabethe1 votes

No on the Mikhael's..... just take tenacity runes and go AP/Athene's. Much better CC tactic.

Kubox1 votes

A Mikael can be a nice buy if your carries tend to eat her ult too much.

Not to be confused with "If you get ulted a lot, buy ...". Obviously, this means unless your allies are masochists that want to eat every Solar Flare they can, you should/could look to other items.

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