How to play Nami — Wild Rift guide, combos & tips
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How to play Nami — Wild Rift guide, combos & tips
Nami is a Support-role enchanter in Wild Rift built entirely around chaining crowd control into her allies' damage. She's a mixed utility and magic-damage caster — Aqua Prison and Tidal Wave both knock enemies airborne, while Ebb and Flow's bouncing current heals her team and chips the enemy at the same time. Nami is at her best setting up long-range picks and then peeling or resetting fights with her wave, rather than trying to out-damage anyone herself.
Strengths
- Tidal Wave is one of the longest, hardest-hitting engage and peel tools among Wild Rift supports — it knocks up and slows everything in its path, often deciding a teamfight before it truly starts.
- Aqua Prison into Tidal Wave gives her a genuine two-part CC chain that most compositions can't escape once both land.
- Ebb and Flow lets her sustain a lane fight almost by herself, since the same cast heals her ally and damages the enemy.
- Tidecaller's Blessing turns any teammate's next few auto-attacks into extra poke and a slow, which is great for both trading in lane and finishing kills.
Weaknesses
- Very low personal survivability with no dash or self-shield — hard-engage supports like Blitzcrank or Leona who jump her first can burst her down before Tidal Wave is even up.
- Q and R are both skillshots on long cooldowns; missing either one removes most of her offense and CC for a long stretch.
- Lanes with strong sustained poke or damage-over-time, such as Zyra's plants, can out-race Ebb and Flow's shrinking heal over a long trade.
- She brings very little burst or single-target lockdown on her own — she needs a teammate nearby to actually convert her setup into a kill.
Combos
- Aqua Prison into Tidal Wave: land Q's knock-up first, then follow immediately with R — the second knock-up chains before the first one ends, keeping the target locked down long enough for your team to arrive and burst it.
- Tidecaller's Blessing into an ally auto into Aqua Prison: empower your carry's attacks with E, let the slow from the first auto land, then bubble the now-slowed target for a much easier hit.
- Tidal Wave to open fights: curve R through the enemy frontline into their backline — the slow alone can win the fight even if the knock-up only clips a couple of targets.
- Ebb and Flow lane trade: send W into your laner right before they auto the enemy, so the current bounces heal-damage-heal within the same cast, swinging the trade in your favor.
Skill order: Q > W > E (max Tidal Wave at every chance: level 5, 9, 13)
Early game
In lane, lead with Ebb and Flow to sustain your ADC through poke, and only look for Aqua Prison when the enemy overextends or you can guarantee a follow-up — missing Q on cooldown just hands the enemy lane a free window. Respect hard-engage supports and never stand where a hook or dash can reach you first. Once you hit level 5, Tidal Wave turns even a 50/50 trade into a kill, so start hunting for angles where it can hit both enemies at once.
Mid & late game — teamfighting
From the mid game on, Nami wants to fight from maximum range, using Tidal Wave either to open on a grouped enemy team or as emergency peel through a diver going for your carry. Weave Tidecaller's Blessing onto your highest-damage ally right before the fight actually starts so the slow and bonus damage are ready the instant they engage, and keep Ebb and Flow in reserve to heal whoever is under focus rather than spending it early. Positioning is everything — Nami has no escape, so always fight with an exit route or a teammate between you and the enemy frontline.
Pro tips
- Curve Tidal Wave along walls and through narrow chokepoints — most opponents don't expect it to reach around corners, and a wave from an unusual angle is far harder to dodge.
- Don't cast Aqua Prison just to poke; its cooldown is long enough that whiffing it away from a real engage often costs you the next fight.
- Watch your ally's attack timer before triggering Tidecaller's Blessing — activating it right before they're about to auto anyway gets full value instead of wasting the duration.