Talk:Nami/@comment-6916359-20130516154004/@comment-6916359-20130613183211

I've been playing nami since release as well, and I disagree with several points you're bringing up. first of all, Her harass game is closely tied to your position in lane, as well as brush control. If you're up against a lane that has strong counter-harass, then just don't! Nami is very adaptable. And "good counter harass" means REALLY GOOD counter harass since her harass doubles as a sustain. the fact that it gives her a slight speed buf allows her to get off some quick harass and back off, generally before people can react with the full engage that nami fears so much.

Furthermore, your comparisons for her to soraka and sona are completely unfounded, Nami is a reactive support with a decent harass game and slight sustainability. The basis of nami's entire kit is to reverse engages with strong counter-engages and turn the tide of an engage, by that point, it generally doesn't boade well for the enemy laner unless they have a supendously strong disengage such as janna. She's not strong at starting a fight, but as soon as it breaks out, her kit shines. Which brings me to my biggest point of contention is you actually think her R is for stalemating. It's not a Janna ult. It's a deadly counter-engage that, being frank here, if you can't land a bubble after you hit someoen with it, it's time to stop playing Nami, she's not for you. The strength of a long and potent slow is often VERY underestimated, espcially in solo Queue. The strength of it resides in how it makes it very difficult for people to follow up on an engage if they're not right there and ready to act on it. It even does have the uses in peel, but that's not the main event of the spell. for this reason Nami has a huge amount of fuctionality against both passive lanes (where she can bully and gain lane and brush control) and agressive engage lanes (espcially in the case of leona becase her ending position is so telegraphed it's basically a free bubble.) she struggles mostly against harass-heavy lanes, like lulu, varus, cait, stronk poke and bully lanes. (except for draven's case, because bubble fuck his axe juggling UP)