Talk:Nami/@comment-80.162.80.230-20121207112955/@comment-86.168.59.173-20121208143945

Support Alistar gives you 2 disengage mechanics, which is pretty powerful, as well as a displacement, Nami can't make any interesting 'knock you under tower' plays, nor does she have any sort of built in resilience. Alistar is better with hyperaggressive laners like Tristana, Corki, Ezreal and Graves, who have innate gap closers to abuse his ability to lock you up while they land AoE burst on your face. Nami works better with laners who have speed boosts or case mechanics, because she supplements your ability to chase with her E and W, and with the E slow, can then land her Q with more regularity. Both are still very much viable, but function best with different laners. Note, I'm not saying that Nami doesn't work with Graves etc, but I feel she works better on someone like Vayne, who can abuse the chase potential enormously.