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(1495) |

Hey QueerJunk, here's the review you requested:

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Conditioning doesn't make much sense to me. Since you'll be squishy the whole game, Bone Plating's flat reduction does a better job keeping you alive, including early game. I'd probably base my secondary rune page based on the enemy team. If you're likely to get bursted by a Leona or Zed, you take Bone Plating. If you're in an attrition lane (like Caitlyn + Soraka), you can get more value out of the Biscuits. Second Wind seems riskier than Biscuits to me, since you have to get hit when you're low in order to get value out of it.
Transcendence seems like the better scaling option, especially if you're also running the CDR rune shard. You'll get AP from any excess CDR later in the game, and 10% CDR is a big spike mid game. This is currently the most common rune for Nami on this row and has a high win rate. Absolute Focus is definitely viable too, but wouldn't it make more sense in your aggressive page, since it gives you some extra power in lane?
Exhaust is less of an auto-attack counter and more of a diver counter. You can use it to shut down champions like Zed, Nocturne and Katarina with a lot of up-front burst, since all of their damage will get reduced and it'll keep you or your carry alive. Exhaust doesn't especially counter auto attackers since it doesn't reduce attack speed anymore. If it was a strong pick into all autoattackers, we'd probably see it as standard over Ignite in lane. You really need Ignite in most cases in order to have kill pressure in lane against Heal.
The Items section of your cheatsheet is pretty bare, though you do have all the best options there. It would help to break up your current purchase orders into more organized sections. Starting Items would be good to add, as well as a note to switch to Oracle Lens once you've upgraded to Frostfang. Order your items roughly according to when you complete them in most games. For situational items, give your readers something to go off of so they can see when to buy each option at a glance. Doesn't have to be super detailed, but any information you can add here would be helpful. Remember, people reading the cheatsheet are looking for quick, effective build advice in champ select or in game, so anything you can do to make Nami easy to build will make your cheatsheet more effective. You can go into more detail on each item in the guide body.
I'm not a support main so I don't know this for a fact, but delaying Aqua Prison till level 4 seems way too risky to be worth it. If you're strong enough to want more lane pressure, you should be able to fish for bubbles on enemy last-hits. If you're too weak to do that, you'll need the bubble to disengage heavy trades or all-ins from the enemy duo lane.
Do you always go W -> E -> Q early? I get that W and E are much more reliable trading abilities, but I'd expect that some games you could take Aqua Prison at level 2. For example, if you have an Ashe or another ADC with a reliable slow, you could push for 2 and take bubble 2nd to try and all-in and force summoners or get kills. Maybe there are matchups where you need bubble for pressure against all-in supports too? Something to consider.
Matchups look fine to me. Looks like you're largely basing them on win rate which isn't a bad foundation. I like that you include both ADCs and Supports.

Presentation

Pretty solid overall. The visuals aren't mindblowing or anything but they're pretty consistent throughout the guide and you don't have any neglected chapters with barebones formatting.
One suggestion I have for some of your text-heavy sections is to use colored subheaders (kinda like the ones you have for Pros and Cons) to make it clear what different sections will be talking about. The icons are definitely useful too, but it doesn't hurt to add on a bit more clarity.
You have a few coding errors in your Ardent Censer and Mobility Boots sections. Looks like you need to add the "icon=" part of [icon=Tidecaller's Blessing] and such.
Also a small spacing issue in your Ardent Censer descrption. After "Bonus Healing & Shielding" you need to add a space.
You misspelled "Aggressive Wards" in your warding map. Oof. Hope you still have the editable file.
Change your Oracle's Lens icon to Oracle Lens. It's a subtle difference in name, but Oracle's Lens is a removed item and Oracle Lens is the one that's currently in the game.
Summoners chapter looks fine, but seeing those examples of Flash uses really makes me wish I could see some examples in action. Adding gifs to demonstrate certain concepts would make your guide much stronger visually. A lot of people learn more from seeing than from reading, and it's a good way of drawing reader attention periodically between longer bouts of text.
Slight spacing issue in your Ignite description. You need a space after the word "BEFORE." Actually it looks like this is a fairly common thing in your guide. Might need to proofread it a bit to catch the rest of these errors.
The URLs in your conclusion are a little ugly. You can mask them using this code:
[url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7K5-sQxrOEgfifbXjMEMCQ]YouTube[/url]
[url=https://www.instagram.com/Queerjunk/]Instagram[/url]
That'll leave you with YouTube and Instagram which is a lot cleaner. You could also add images here and have them link to your YouTube and Instagram if you like. URL masking would also be useful for your OPGG page in your introduction chapter.

Content

I would describe this guide as having an "adequate" amount of content. You do a good job of introducing the champion and her abilities, explaining the build and the vision chapter is a nice start on gameplay info. That said, there's a lot of room for growth here. I'd love to see more chapters on topics like trading, wave control, roaming and team fighting. You can always check out other good support guides to get ideas for what kinds of topics you could add.
Not much else to say here. The content you have so far seems solid. I didn't see anything that stood out to me as questionable in terms of the quality of information. You just need more depth and detail to really bring your guide to the next level. Right now your guide offers enough info to get a new Nami player up to speed on how she works and what to build. The matchups section is definitely helpful for drafting, but if you want to help your readers to become really proficient Nami players, I think you'll need to guide them a bit more.

Overall, this guide is a little short for my tastes, but you have a strong start and it seems like you know what you're doing. I expect that with some more effort put in to add more gameplay sections, this guide can easily become really great. If you're unsure where to start, definitely shop around on other guides and see what they offer, then you can take ideas of what to add and use your own Nami knowledge to come up with new chapters for your guide.

Hope you found this review useful. Good luck with your guide!

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Hi friend!

Really cool guide you made here, it is extremely pretty and well structured (gives me a little anxiety to do a makeup on my guide haha). All in all it was very well done!

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Hey QueerJunk,

This has to be one of the best coded guides I have seen so far! Everything looks amazing and my voidling eye enjoy a lot :) Even though I'm a Vel'Koz one trick, I found all your information on Nami very informative and well made. Keep up the great work!

Your friendly laser eye guy,
t3rminated

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Thank you so much for the encouragement! I really appreciate it! How do you leave comments on guides lol?

(162) |

Hey QueerJunk,

I found your guide on today and I really like it. :] in general is pretty strong right now, thanks to her recent E buff. As main, I really enjoy that.

Let me give you some feedback on your guide.
First of all, I really love your BB Coding and formatting. It looks pretty neat! Also, you mention quite important stuff, like rune and item choices.
Some minor criticism/improvement advices:

You could consider discussing different (some more) rune and item choices, depending on the match ups you'll face. For instance, what if you faced a Soraka in lane and what if you're up against a Brand - would you still choose the exact same runes and items?
For example, I tried out going Domination secondary with Ultimate Hunter and Eyeball Collection which drastically reduces the ultimate's cool down. As a result, I've been able to use Tidal Wave three times in two fights in my last game. x]
Furthermore, I would try to expand your threats & synergy graph with more champions and maybe even little tips and tricks how to play against them.
You could also consider adding a chapter on warding but that's more of a general information kind of thing.

/criticism over x]
Oh and I love your combo chapter! It's so nice when guides have these for new players.

At last, I would say you're guide is pretty amazing already and I'm guessing you're probably not done with it yet since it's pretty new. So I hope I could help you a bit with my thoughts and ideas. :)

+1
Cheers, Wicked Cherry

Edit: ~~Cheap Shot~~ changed for

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Thank you so much for this detailed response! It will definitely help me improve my guide! I agree with 2 things flat out and have no complaints.

When it comes to going I would want to test it out before recommending it. While using multiple ultimate's in one teamfight sounds broken to me i'm not sure how consistent or reliable that is. I don't think the Resolve off-tree stats are so incredible that you can't consider taking this, I just don't want to encourage abunch of people to play aggro kill Nami when i personally suck at playing her that way, but now I want to try your rune choice out because 3 ults is nutty!

If you have any other feedback I would love to know! Thank you for taking the time to help me improve my guide! I'm thinking about making some video content to help with it but I haven't made up my mind!

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Sure, no problem. I‘m happy to help. :]
I‘m looking forward to the upcoming content then. ^-^

You should really try out , it‘s amazing in many matchups, although I would not recommend it against hard counters, such as , or hard poke champs in general. But other than that, try it. :) You will probably want to play safe early since you‘re saying no to the sustain but once you got some assists in the bank you will feel how good these runes kick in.

Oh if you have the means and options to add video content, I think you should definitely go for it. :]

Feel free to send me a PM or reply to this comment once you‘ve made some larger changes and I will check back up on your guide.

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Thank You!

I still haven't made up my mind about the video, but checking out your guide definitely inspired me to clean mine up!I added the vision section, and updated more threats/synergies. I also tried to improve the overall aesthetic of the guide! I also think it's interesting you consider a hard counter when Nami has a 54% win rate against him according to champion.gg I was under the impression that if he doesnt land his stun or triple proc, that you can outsustain him, and consistently outperform him through the game with solid bubbles.

I like how different our approach to Nami is and I'm definitely going to give your runes a shot! Thank you for the time you've taken to help me improve my pet project! It really helped a lot! Let me know if their is anything I can do for you!

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Oh I love the new vision chapter and the new looks. Especially your runes look cleaner than ever. :) My guide isn't really finished yet but I don't really have a lot of time (and patience) at the moment to sit down and improve it. :/
Sorry .

You're right. It's quite interesting considering these statistics. Thank you for pointing that out. I usually stick to statistics but with it might as well be a personal disliking. I never really got into playing him enough to adopt him into my champion pool. Last season he also seemed quite popular which might have been why I got annoyed at him. :D'
You are right, that can out-sustain him but if she is being caught by one of his combos it's quite hard for her heal back up - I think it's like 3 or 4 s on yourself which is quite mana-consuming and I'm kinda an aggressive player with . So maybe it's just that. But I will take your words to heart and revise my own play style further.

I'm happy to help and I love seeing new awesome guides made by real nice people like you. I really appreciate it. <3 I wish I could give you more than an upvote and a +Rep. :<
I'm sorry I mentioned the wrong rune () earlier. I meant for more AP in late game.

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Thank you! It took some additional time but I thought it was necessary! Now i need to figure out how to add the additional runes you suggested without ruining everything!

Yeah, its interesting, I would love to hear more about your playstyle with Nami because I play her pretty passively and consider her an enchanter!

Thank you so much for the kind words! I really appreciate the encouragement as you know this takes a lot of time lol

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Maybe just below the and runes - I'd keep the four columns, but fill the second and the third with text - this way they look centered and you keep your layout going. But that's only a quick idea. I'm sure you'll figure something out. If you need more runes to fill, I've seen a build of her here. I haven't tried it yet and I'm not sure I would but it's probably helpful against champions like .

I think this is a very personal liking. I hate playing passively. xD I can do it, but I don't really enjoy it. I've simply experienced that if you're able to harass the enemy ADC enough to keep them from farming, it's way easier to win your lane. On top of that you'll also get your warding item faster and much more gold. Like I even build first now and second unless we're really behind in lane right from the start. But of course it's also risky sometimes because you might get ganked more often and simply expose yourself to more potential damage at the same time you're trying to dish out some by yourself. But that's why 's so great - her can deal damage to enemies and heal you or an ally with one cast - that is if you're positioned correctly.

;]

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So I finally made the addition! What do you think?

I agree, one of the reasons I pick Nami is for her strong laning, just on games you are having trouble on her against hook champions try just being a W bot. Nami is so broken i honestly think it's enough. I think in general being agressive is better since you can get your adc fed if you are more skilled then the enemy laners and of course you are correct that personal playstyle and positioning are very important.

Thank you again for all your help with the guide <3

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I really like your additional two runes and the layout looks fine too. :]

Yeah, is pretty strong right now - which is the reason I kinda one-trick her in Ranked. I don't play a lot lately but if I do, it's 98% . I kinda feel bad for my other mains but meh, I kinda need the almost free wins too. :<

No problem. ♥ It was time well spent. :)

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