Kayle vs Samira
How to Beat Samira as Kayle
based on 5,168 Kayle vs Samira matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kayle vs Samira Matchup Summary
Best Kayle vs Samira Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Samira as Kayle
Tips for Playing as Kayle against Samira
Kayle benefits greatly from Attack Damage and Ability Power, making hybrid items like Nashor's Tooth and Hextech Gunblade very effective on her.
Using Divine Judgment on a high-DPS ally can turn the tides of battle by giving your ally free reign to attack.
Kayle's attacks become incredibly powerful once she gains attack range from Divine Ascent. Play safe until then.
Kayle vs Samira Counter Stats
How to Counter Samira with Kayle in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show some strategic Kayle against Samira counter stats that may help you interpret the differences between the pair. For instance, Kayle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Samira’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Kayle may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Samira..
Kayle often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Samira. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kayle and Samira
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Who is Better, Kayle or Samira?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kayle usually wins when playing against Samira, with a 53.9% win rate. As a result, Kayle makes a great counter to Samira.
While Kayle does have a higher win rate compared to Samira, when on opposite teams, Kayle also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming character to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Kayle into Samiraas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Kayle also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Samira. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kayle vs Samira matchups, Kayle 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.
Kayle is a great counter for Samira. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kayle against Samira.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kayle in order to counter Samira during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kayle on average racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Samira. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Kayle versus Samira build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Shadowflame. When Kayle combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when fighting Samira than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kayle boasted an average win rate of 53.9% when countering Samira with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Samira as Kayle, Kayle players should use the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Kayle vs Samira counter picks, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 53.9% win rate overall.
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