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QueerJunks In-Depth Support Nami Guide

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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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