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[10.7] The Tidecaller | Outheal the Enemy DPS

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Runes: Aery - Teamfighter

1 2

Sorcery

Summon Aery

Nimbus Cloak

Transcendence

Gathering Storm

Precision

Presence of Mind

Legend: Tenacity

Bonus:

+8 Ability Haste
+10% Tenacity/Slow Resist
+6 Armor

Spells:

1 2

Flash + Ignite

Flash

Ignite

Items

First Items

DONT FORGET WARDS

Boots Options

Core Items

Other Items

Ability Order

Nami Passive Ability

More Nami Counters

Champion Build Guide

Hello, my name is DarkOasis and I am a Gold and main. I mostly play champions like , , , and . I have only been playing League of Legends for about 8 months now and I have really learned a lot about the game and the mechanics behind it.

In this guide, I will be going over how to play the lovable support . I will be explaining her kit, items, spells, and overall gameplay and what you should expect when playing The Tidecaller. I have over 100k Mastery points on Nami now and have been doing very well with her within my ranked games so I wanted to help some people get better at playing her so I am creating this guide just to do so.

Pros/Cons

PROS

🌊 Strong healing
🌊 Late game scale
🌊 Tons of CC
🌊 Can peel very easily
🌊 Useful Kit

is a great to play if you want to impact the game the whole time. She has a great kit that allows her to perma CC some of her enemies and can easily peel for herself and her own teammates keeping them alive throughout most team fights.

CONS

🔥 Really squishy
🔥 Q Skill-shot based
🔥 Needs at least one frontliner

is a very squishy so it is very important that if you play her that you play as safe as possible so that you aren't caught out. Nami's is a very hard ability to hit so make sure that you practice this ability with bots or some friends. You can easily track the movement of your enemy and easily land an where they will be next trapping them for an easy kill for your ADC.

Runes

is a great primary rune for as it allows her shields to be increased and gives her more damage in her poke in the laning phase. This rune is much better than because it can be activated more often due to the lower cooldown and just provides more utility with 's kit.

Due to the recent buff for , it has seen a lot of play in Korea especially on as she is a very squishy champion and is always in need of a way to escape risky situations. Easy use that , , or and skedaddle with that speed boost.

When you are playing a more of a peel , you are going to be looking for more CDR (CoolDown Reduction) so that you can peel for your carry more. grants you 10% CDR at level 10 which allows you help you team more without having to buy more items. Even though you will be building CDR anyways with your items, also converts the extra CDR (45% CDR is maximum) and converts it into AP (Ability Power) helping you scale into the late game.

Extra AP (Ability Power) is always great and we want to get it without having to buy any items that provide us with it. So the second best option is to take as it provides you with more AP every 10 minutes into the game. This is great on because your healing scales with AP allowing you to have more healing going into the late game.

This rune is great for champions that like to team fight a lot and need mana to be able to sustain themselves within the fights. restores and increases the champions maximum mana for each takedown they get. So if you are in a teamfight and get an assist or kill, you will be refunded with mana and will be able to keep contributing to the fight.

Being permanently CC'd (Crowd Controlled) every team fight and can't help keep your team up, allows you to not be CC'd for as long as you usually would. By taking this rune, you don't have to buy because the boots passive do the same exact thing as the rune but it doesn't scale. This is great if you keep getting focused in team fights so that you can easily get away and keep safe while helping your team win the game.

Summoner Spells

FLASH

is probably one of the best summoner spells in the game as it allows the player to either make unique plays or gives them an access to escape.

IGNITE

You usually take on most 's just so you can get that heal negated in the botlane and secure that kill. I make sure to prioritize this summoner spell against champions with a heal (, , , etc.) or tanky champions with a lot of self-heal (, , , etc.)

EXHAUST

I usually take on if the enemy team has a lot of assassins that can easily oneshot your back line such as , , , etc. However, I do take is sometimes just to reduce the overall damage from a specific champion such as or just so they can't do as much within the team fights.

Abilities

PASSIVE: This is a very unique passive as it allows to provide herself and her teammates with more mobility as if you hit any of your teammates with an ability, they gain a 60 (+20% AP) movement speed for 1.5 seconds. Which will help with escapes and going into team fights.

Q: This is a skill-shot based CC (Crowd-Control) ability that lifts an enemy into the air and stuns them for 1.5 seconds. This is a great ability for as you can easily lock down kills on a specific enemy champion and possibly save someones life if they are being killed by someone. This ability is can easily be combo'd with any other form of CC so that you can permanently CC lock your enemy. You can even combo CC with yourself, I will go into this more within the "Combos" section in this guide.

W: Probably one of the best healing abilities in the game. It provides with huge poke and heal potential as this ability can bounce off of up to 3 champions. So if you cast it on yourself within lane and are close enough to the enemy champions, is will bounce on to them and deal damage. This skill is great in teamfights as if your teammates are right in the action, if you heal one of them it can bounce off them then onto an enemy then back onto another teammate healing 2 people on your team at once. The passive of this spell allows to help keep her team up and help her contribute her own damage even if she is just healing her own teammates.

E: This ability allows to enhance 3 basic attacks and spells used by one of her teammates. This spell allows to be played in the bot lane with either an ADC (Attack damage Carry) or even an APC (Ability Power Carry) due to her ability to enhance her allies basic attacks and spells. If the teammate you cast this spell on his an enemy champion, it will apply a slow on the target for 1 second allowing you or your teammates to catch that person out with CC (Crowd Control).

R: This ultimate allows for great utility within teamfights as it knocks up and slows the enemies caught in it allowing your team to initiate the teamfight. This is a great CC (Crowd Control) ultimate for as she can easily use it for peel on her carry in the backline or just for a teammate who may have gotten caught out before an important team fight.

Items

Starting Items
*Based on matchup in the botlane, starting items might change