While Nami isn't the best leader in the meta, she's relatively strong. There are a lot of great builds out there. I believe this list is the most consistent, but it's going to depend on your local meta and your own playstyle. I hope that this video can provide insights and a good starting point for your own Nami builds. While 07 has passed for me, it’s always wonderful to see how western players innovate and take the existing builds to the next level. In fact, it’s thanks to you all that I’ve felt inspired to keep at it with Nami in the 08 meta (it’s rough out here for us lol). If you'd prefer to read this information, I wrote an article on it here: onepiece.gg/op-07-blue-nami-guide/ Here are the timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction to Leaders Explained! 0:56 - A Brief Overview of Nami in OP-07 3:24 - The Decklist: Core Cards 5:18 - The Decklist: Tech Cards 9:24 - Why Don't We Just Run Seven Warlords of the Sea? 10:17 - The Decklist: Other Options That I Didn't Include and Why 12:11 - How to Mulligan 13:37 - Matchups Guide VS The Top 10 Leaders in the Meta 20:16 - Matchups Guide VS Difficult Niche Leaders 21:02 - Gameplay VS Enel 35:29 - Gameplay VS Red Purple Law 43:35 - Gameplay VS OP-07 Lucci
@blakehoward28044 ай бұрын
Thanks so much for this!
@dreamwalking2 ай бұрын
Played my first OPTCG weekly event at a local game shop with this deck! I have done two now. I still have a lot to learn about the matchups and the cards I'm facing, and the Western meta does seem to have more removal, but this list has been super fun to pilot! There's a Blue Doflamingo player who's been playing Doflamingo since before the leader was good, and that matchup has felt really rough. Boodle seems to just get bounced, he has a couple 9-cost Dracule Mihawk to bottom-deck Crocodile, and even with White Snake it's really hard to defend against the wide board that he gets down so quickly. I'm beginning to wonder if the matchup is as unwinnable for me as Enel is for my opponents. People were pretty surprised by the lack of Marguerite, the Death Wink build has definitely done well, especially considering that it's being piloted by a new player. (Albeit one with previous TCG experience.) Thanks so much for the decklist, the three videos, and the fairly thorough explanations. OP09 will be arriving here soon, so I am eagerly hoping to see some more from you on Nami. Cheers, and thanks again!
@blakehoward28043 ай бұрын
Can't wait for the OP-08 and OP-09 update!! I'd love to see how you play Nami with the new cards and everything!!
@WafflesTheAsianYenbear3 ай бұрын
Coming tomorrow (08, but I do show my 09 builds in there) c: finishing up the music parts in the morning + rendering it. Should be up about 25-26 hours from this comment
@WafflesTheAsianYenbear3 ай бұрын
(sorry make that an extra day - I've been running into rendering issues the whole day and haven't found a solution yet.)
@Jawshyyyyy7 ай бұрын
Wake up, babe. Waffle's new Nami guide just dropped. Wooooooo! Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts on the deck! The mind games are strong in this one. Two things that I also picked up on in the RP Law matchup; I personally feel safe playing a blocker out when the Law has a full board. They are going to want to swing with at least one of their characters before using leader ability, giving you a chance to block out of their first attack if they swing, or forcing them to lose 1 attack in order to bottom deck it. Feels like a good trade to me, but I'd love to know your thoughts. Maybe its only value with the Marguerite blocker since she draws on play. Second, I like to save kayas when possible for either that same situation, giving me the ability to snake dance out of the first swing and pull the Kaya back before they send her to the depths. Another note with Kaya, if you can play 2 in one turn, they can only get rid of one, possibly opening an opportunity for a bounce on one of them. Fairly niche in practice because of the hand size required, but very good if you can pull it off. So interesting that there are no searchers to stack the bottom of the deck, which was such an integral part of the 06 list. I'm going to miss the reliability of ordering the bottom 8 to 12 cards in my deck. Do you bottom deck with Spada often? Gonna go try this list out! Great job on the Sim gameplay and commentary over it. It was definitely worthwhile, and valuable for both new and veteran Nami players. (Including yourself, I'm sure. Lol) If you ever feel like releasing more of that content, I'll be here to watch, like, and comment! Edited bc your cat is so cute! More kittty in video please thanks. 🙏
@WafflesTheAsianYenbear7 ай бұрын
Thank you so much! So to answer the questions - first, I think that can work vs RP Law, but it depends on the situation. It's not necessarily that Law wants to attack, but they don't want to waste their 3 don. If they're still setting up their board, then a good Law player will just play a character and then bottom deck our blocker. Margaret works for sure in that situation, but that leads us into a different build that's more Kuja Pirates based. With the Kaya point, you're very right! Maybe I should have mentioned that, but that play is conditional on us having Snake Dance + 2 Kayas. If we just do it with the 2 Kayas, then they'll just bottom deck 1 each turn and we'll be in the same boat as usual. I do find that I bottom deck things with Spada pretty often. Basically, if I see 3 cards that I either A. Can't combo with my current hand Or B. Don't want to draw just yet (say a Pilaf if I already have one in hand), I'll bottom deck it and set it up for the endgame c: it definitely took some getting used to, but no searcher is really reliable enough with the current list. Lol I'll make sure the kitties appear at least once in each video then c:
@jossettehernanddez36977 ай бұрын
Thank you for another video been missing them
@meowburi76126 ай бұрын
Attending Grand Asia this weekend. I pray for no Law matchup 🙏 Will be using your build
@WafflesTheAsianYenbear6 ай бұрын
Hell yeah! I'll be praying with you :) let me know how it goes!
@meowburi76126 ай бұрын
@@WafflesTheAsianYenbear howdy I just finished the event! Ngl this Nami deck is hella strong. I was also the only Nami left by round 7 (format 8 swiss, lose 3 and youre out) P.S there was other namis but mainly impel down and kuja build they didnt last long. It also helped I never met any R/P Law. So here how it went, btw OP08 and the new ST are allowed. R1 - R/P Luffy (L) the leader based 6K was not easy to deal with. At one point, he had a board of 8K+ and 7c kid who helped him gain 1K every turn. Ended with 10 cards left R2 - Enel (W) welp R3 - Lucci (W) They constantly KO bellmere every turn I play her cuz he was afraid of the 7 mill. R4- Enel (W) I never had such a good start like this and doubt I will ever get it again R5 - Kata (L) the new 6c big mom from the ST is impossible to deal with. You'll always be in a lose lose situation. I lost two love beam cuz i didnt want to lose my hands. That ultimately bite me in the ass late game. 7 cards left R6 - Katakuri (W) by far the toughest match, won with white snake and gavel combo late game. Lucked out R7 - Katakuri (L) had a decent start hand but turns out every other stuff is at the bottom. Played with 1 Kaya the entire game. 17 cards left *Lost 3 and my match concluded but being the only Nami left in Top 100 really boost my ego Overall, this is by far the best Nami deck I've ever tested. (Only changes i made was 4 snake dance for 3 snake dance and 1 apis) This deck is hella consistent, and it actually rewards you for playing greedy. Just spam events and then death wink later. Thanks for the help!
@WafflesTheAsianYenbear6 ай бұрын
Fuck yeah! I'm glad the Nami build worked out so well for you! That R7 match sounds really unfortunate and new mom is definitely a difficult one for us. Thank you for the testimonial c: sometimes I worry that my builds won't work as well for other people since they're usually different from the norm, so it's really good to hear it played consistently for you too :D
@blakehoward28043 ай бұрын
Have you ever tried the 4 cost 5000 power (impel down/7 warlords/kuja pirates) Boa Hancock from OP-02? Sounds like it would be really good with death wink because you can trash extra cards from your hand if you want. Would love to hear your thoughts, especially since it combines Impel Down and Kuja Pirates type cards!
@WafflesTheAsianYenbear3 ай бұрын
I have c: I believe it was on 05 or 06 as an Impel Down target. The main issue was that she was just too slow for only 1 card draw. With Mihawk, you can get two cards and a 2k counter I think if you ran a version with double searchers, she could be worth considering as a target. Having all three of those types is a great strength
@Tosapecore7 ай бұрын
Ty for video ❤
@WafflesTheAsianYenbear7 ай бұрын
Hope it helped! :3
@sesamesprinkles5 ай бұрын
30:50 I see you played snake dance however you didn’t bounce bell-mere. I understand you don’t have to bounce with snake if there are no characters but if there are characters on the field can you still use snake and NOT bounce your character?
@WafflesTheAsianYenbear5 ай бұрын
Yes :) it is up to 1 character, so you can select 0 characters and still use it
@wizardexemplar52405 ай бұрын
Now that the Law leader has been banned, I would be interested in seeing your new opinions on deck composition.
@WafflesTheAsianYenbear5 ай бұрын
Already working on it c: It's pretty good for us. Initial thoughts are that I'm moving a bit more away from Apis in the my 08 build and siding in techs like Boodle. The build I ended up settling in for 08 east was similar to the standard Kuja build, but with more Death Wink and 2 Bell-mere. Without Law bottom decking, I want to see if we can move to Warlords again (or if I can get my spicy Navy build off the ground lol)
@wizardexemplar52405 ай бұрын
@@WafflesTheAsianYenbear Thanks for the direct reply. I started building a Nami deck based on this video of yours, so I look forward seeing the updated video. I also looked into Usopp OP03-041. It has rush but lacks the K.O. disincentive that Bell-mere has. Bell-mere might still be better because of the K.O. disincentive. Usopp, however, is still better than Zeff OP03-047. I agree with you that cards that mill on K.O. like Bell-mere and Boodle nerf removal, as the Nami player still mills no matter what happens. The only concern is 10c Blackbeard in OP09, which the internet chatter says would stop Nami, but that depends if Blackbeard decks become meta in OP09.
@theonovaes5 ай бұрын
tried this build and felt like I bricked more than every other builds, especially when my triggers were full of characters instead of draw 2s I can see the tech behind it and even agree with the matchup advantages but truth be told, without gavel recursion, without impel down all stars, it seems like you have to almost always rely on that specific tech card that, if you don't get it, you're screwed. honestly kuja engine has been proven to be more reliable to me, but I can see this is a personal experience aswell
@WafflesTheAsianYenbear5 ай бұрын
That's a fair criticism. Having seen how the western meta turned out, I would definitely have made some adjustments, as it ended up quite a bit different than the eastern one. My 08 build will address a lot of those concerns, as I'm building more towards Impel down core this time around
@thebanman22935 ай бұрын
I'm trying to learn Nami and nearly every time I try to play on the sim, people just concede
@WafflesTheAsianYenbear5 ай бұрын
You should play ranked on OPBounty. They lose points for conceding, so they usually don't. I started using it as a way to test out Nami builds c:
@danielmalachi1166 ай бұрын
Hi, want to know your opinion about playing nami deck in op08 especially with the new starters around the corner. Is it still viable?
@WafflesTheAsianYenbear6 ай бұрын
Honestly, not really. I've done my best, but 08 meta is like 50% Law, 20% Enel, 30% Lucci. We're fine against Enel and Lucci, but you really have to rely on luck to win the 08 matches with buffed up Law (even with anti Law techs). When he gets banned, we'll be fine again, but until then, it's pretty difficult
@Dirpman426 ай бұрын
@@WafflesTheAsianYenbearPraying we get the good news end of August before we have to suffer to much.
@OP_SB3 ай бұрын
Bro I’m sure you get asked this a lot. How do I practice and play like that??
@WafflesTheAsianYenbear3 ай бұрын
The way I did it was just through a ton of practice playing the deck in tournaments and failing a lot early on. Lots of trial and error as I got the hang of it If I could back, it would have been faster to record my games and watch them over again. If you can't do that, at least try to recognize where you made mistakes in the game. That's what I do when I'm trying to learn new leaders :)
@OP_SB3 ай бұрын
@@WafflesTheAsianYenbear appreciate that. Didn’t think you write all that 🙏 much respect. Hope to see you one day and face off. BUT bring a hanger 😉 lol
@WafflesTheAsianYenbear3 ай бұрын
I like helping people when I can c: I'd be happy to have a match with you someday. I'm sure we'll at least run into each other on the sim at some point lol
@OP_SB3 ай бұрын
@ definitely would love to bro! I’m trying to find one but I need a new computer mine is laggy. You’re really cool bro. Hope we get to play someday soon! And good luck with the channel. You’re going to be a face for OP TCG at events and everything I can see it now 💪 but don’t tell Nami, I built a Boa deck lol 😎
@wimmiebear7 ай бұрын
HUHH I never knew you had a KZbin
@WafflesTheAsianYenbear7 ай бұрын
😅 haha I try not to overdo it with advertising the channel, so it doesn't come up much in conversation. Still making videos is a lot of fun, don't you think?
@QuantumKayos5 ай бұрын
Dont forget x4 Hodys with Bonney LMAO
@WafflesTheAsianYenbear5 ай бұрын
Lol they're finally learning how to use it correctly to shut off our don 😂
@Hecubusx5 ай бұрын
With Law banned I wonder if its time for a Blue Nami comeback hmmmm
@WafflesTheAsianYenbear5 ай бұрын
It is c: the meta is looking pretty decent for her
@Hecubusx5 ай бұрын
@@WafflesTheAsianYenbear excited cause I just pulled her and saw this vid 20 minutes later lol