Azir vs Samira
How to Beat Samira as Azir
based on 2,795 Azir vs Samira matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Azir vs Samira Matchup Summary
Best Azir vs Samira Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Samira as Azir
Tips for Playing as Azir against Samira
Be a bird!
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
Azir vs Samira Counter Stats
How to Counter Samira with Azir in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several strategic Azir against Samira counter statistics that may help us realize the differences between the pair. As an example, Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Samira’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Samira..
Azir usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Samira. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Azir and Samira
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Who is Better, Azir or Samira?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Azir usually wins when trying to fight Samira, with a 53.6% win rate. Therefore, Azir makes a great counter to Samira.
While Azir does have a higher win rate compared to Samira, when they face off with one another, Azir also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champion to learn. You should be be fine when picking Azir into Samiraas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Azir has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Samira. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Azir vs Samira matchups, Azir is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Azir is a great counter to Samira. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Azir against Samira.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Azir to counter Samira during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir often gets a similar amount of CS compared to Samira. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Azir versus Samira build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Azir included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when facing Samira than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Azir boasted an average win rate of 53.6% when playing against Samira with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Samira as Azir, Azir players should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Azir vs Samira fights, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 53.6% win rate overall.
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