What is the best build for Nami?

We do not publish a best build for Nami, and the reason is worth thirty seconds. The most recorded Nami support build on patch 16.14 is Staff of Flowing Water, Moonstone Renewer and Echoes of Helia, in 113 games. A finished item set is read at the end of the game, so a build only appears once the game ran long enough to buy it, and a game that runs long is usually a game you were winning. Any share of wins taken from those games leans high for that reason on its own, which is why there is not one in this answer. The page lists every recorded build with the games behind it.

What are the best runes for Nami?

The most recorded Nami support rune page on patch 16.14 takes Summon Aery out of Sorcery, with Manaflow Band, Transcendence and Scorch beside it and Revitalize and Bone Plating out of Resolve. Players who ran it won 49.6% of 2,246 games, range 47.5% to 51.6%. A rune page is locked in at champion select, so that share is not inflated by long games the way a build is, but it counts who picked the page rather than what the page did.

Nami build, patch 16.14

Q: What skill order should I use on Nami?

Recorded Nami support players max W, then E, then Q. 852 recorded games on patch 16.14. Win comparisons only count games that ran long enough to finish the max: 94% of 800 W-first games and 100% of 52 E-first games. Short games are missing from both sides, and short games are usually decided ones.

3,271 games of Nami recorded on patch 16.14, across support, mid and top.

Win rate

49.2% of support games this patch

Pick rate

4.2% of support games

Games

3,262 support, patch 16.14

Rank in role

21 of 90 support champions

Win impact against the average support pick on patch 16.14: -0.5 wins per 100 games (range -1.8 to 0.9) 3,262 games Pooled

What most Nami support players build, patch 16.14

Build Staff of Flowing Water, Moonstone Renewer and Echoes of Helia, and run Summon Aery

The rune page they run

Sorcery

Summon Aery

Resolve

Shards

2,246 games ran this page exactly as it is drawn. We never stitch the most picked keystone onto the most picked second row and call it a page: nobody ran that one.

The skill path Each filled cell is the skill most players took at that level, from 852 games.
skill	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Q			Q											Q	Q		Q	Q
W	W			W	W		W		W
E		E						E		E		E	E
R						R					R					R

Levels 10 to 18

10 E, 11 R, 12 E, 13 E, 14 Q, 15 Q, 16 R, 17 Q, 18 Q

Max W, then E, then Q. The level by level count.

113 games finished this exact set. It is the set recorded most often, which is a fact about players rather than about the items.

Share of those games that were wins, in percent 62.8% (range 53.6-71.2) · 113 games · Measured

Games that finish a build are games that lasted, and lasting usually means winning, so this figure leans high before the items do anything. It is how those games went, not what the build does to your chances. How far that can bend a number.

Nami support is the role with the most recorded games on patch 16.14: 3,262 games, of which 1,605 were wins. That is the role this page leads with. Measured on this page: support, the role that cleared 30 recorded games.

wins 0.5 per 100 vs the support average · 3,262 games on 16.14 · first-time players measured (2,882 games) · no clear move vs 16.13 (-2.0, range -12.1 to +8.1)

The build above is the one recorded most often, nothing more. Every recorded build, with its own games and its own share, is in the build list, in the order players built them.

Why this answer

A champion and role pair needs 30 recorded games before we put a score or a win impact on it: under that, a handful of lucky games moves a win rate by ten points. The same floor applies to a single build and to a single rune page, and anything under it prints its games and no number.

The share on that figure says how the games went, not what the build does to you. Nothing on this page measures that; the method note at the end says why.

What do most Nami players build?

Item sets recorded on patch 16.14, most built first, never sorted by how the games went. The share is how many of a build's own games were wins; a build under 30 games shows its games and no share.

Nami, support

8 item sets were recorded in this role and 5 of them cleared 30 games.

Staff of Flowing Water, Moonstone Renewer and Echoes of Helia
62.8% 113 games
Redemption, Moonstone Renewer and Echoes of Helia
65.2% 92 games
Ardent Censer, Moonstone Renewer and Echoes of Helia
62.5% 80 games
Imperial Mandate, Moonstone Renewer and Echoes of Helia
55.8% 43 games
Mikael's Blessing, Moonstone Renewer and Echoes of Helia
61.0% 41 games

A finished set is read at the end of the game, so every share here leans high: games that last long enough to finish a build are usually games that were already going well. How far that can bend a number.

What runes do most Nami players run?

Whole pages that players actually ran, most recorded first. A page is locked in at champion select, so long games do not inflate its share the way they inflate a build's; it still counts who picked the page rather than what the page did.

Nami, support

10 complete pages were recorded in this role and 5 of them cleared 30 games.

Summon Aery Sorcery with Resolve

2,246 games

Sorcery

Summon Aery

Resolve

Shards

2,246 games ran this page exactly as it is drawn. We never stitch the most picked keystone onto the most picked second row and call it a page: nobody ran that one.

Other pages players ran

Summon Aery Sorcery with Inspiration

838 games

Summon Aery Sorcery with Precision

63 games

Summon Aery Sorcery with Domination

52 games

Electrocute Domination with Sorcery

46 games

Keystones picked, one slot on its own

Summon Aery: 49.5% 3,200 games
Electrocute: 40.8% 49 games

6 keystones were recorded in this role: one slot on its own, counted across every page that used it, so the share carries the rest of each page with it.

What skill order should I use?

Counted from recorded level-ups on patch 16.14, one player per game.

Max W, then E, then Q

852 recorded games on patch 16.14. Win comparisons only count games that ran long enough to finish the max: 94% of 800 W-first games and 100% of 52 E-first games. Short games are missing from both sides, and short games are usually decided ones.

too close

Nami support skill path Each filled cell is the skill most players took at that level, from 852 games.
skill	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Q			Q											Q	Q		Q	Q
W	W			W	W		W		W
E		E						E		E		E	E
R						R					R					R

Levels 10 to 18

10 E, 11 R, 12 E, 13 E, 14 Q, 15 Q, 16 R, 17 Q, 18 Q

Maxing W and maxing E are too close to separate. +0.2 wins per 100 games (range -8.4 to 8.8) 801 games Measured 749 games maxed W first, 52 games maxed E first.

No measured difference between maxing W and E first, 801 games.

When do players buy each piece?

The pieces of the most recorded Nami support build, in the order players buy them. The time is the middle of the spread across every recorded game on patch 16.14, measured at the buy rather than at the end of the game: half the recorded buys of the item happen before it, half after.

Buy times, earliest first

Echoes of Helia: 13:35 398 games
Moonstone Renewer: 19:45 500 games
Staff of Flowing Water: 21:13 116 games

The bar is scaled to the latest piece of the set. Each item links to its own page, where the whole spread sits beside the games behind it.

Who counters Nami?

The opponents Nami support loses to most and the teammates Nami gains the most beside on patch 16.14. The chip is the edge in wins per 100 games, and the games behind it sit under the name.

Hardest opponents

79 more opponents sit under 50 games against Nami and are counted, not ranked. Every measured Nami opponent, with the full table

Best teammates

Every measured Nami teammate, with the full table

These numbers come from 108,616 ranked games we recorded on EUW, Korea and NA, found by following Diamond players and the people they play with. That is not every rank and it is not every region. Everything on this page is patch 16.14. Counted up to 24 July 2026.

How does Nami rank?

Every role we recorded Nami in on patch 16.14, scored or not. Win impact is measured against the average pick in that role on the same patch, and a role needs 30 recorded games before it is scored.

Nami by role

support B -0.5 wins per 100 games (range -1.8 to 0.9) 3,262 games Pooled: 52 3,262 games
mid not enough games yet. 8 games so far, this needs 30.: not scored 8 games
top not enough games yet. 1 game so far, this needs 30.: not scored 1 game

Why no share of wins on this page says a build is good for Nami

A finished item set is read at the end of the game. A player who bought the first two items and lost at twenty minutes never finished the set, so they are not in its row. Everybody in the row lasted long enough to buy it, and lasting is most of what winning looks like. The share those games won is pushed up by that on its own, before the items do anything at all, and the push is largest on the most expensive builds and backwards on the ones you buy when a game is going badly.

We know the size of it. In simulation, with every item's real effect set to exactly zero, an item read at the end of the game shows about 92% as a sixth completed item. A defensive item with a real 5 point benefit shows about 20 points the wrong way, because it gets bought when a player is behind. The measurement is here.

So this page counts and labels rather than ranks. The estimate that answers the real question is taken at the moment of the buy, from the state the purchase happened in, and it runs in the desktop app because it needs the game in front of it.