Lissandra vs Samira
How to Beat Samira as Lissandra
based on 2,366 Lissandra vs Samira matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lissandra vs Samira Matchup Summary
Best Lissandra vs Samira Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Samira as Lissandra
Tips for Playing as Lissandra against Samira
Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
Lissandra vs Samira Counter Stats
How to Counter Samira with Lissandra in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some strategic Lissandra against Samira counter statistics that may help you grasp the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. Lissandra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Samira’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Lissandra may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Samira..
Lissandra usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her foe does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Samira. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Lissandra and Samira
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Who is Better, Lissandra or Samira?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Lissandra usually wins when playing against Samira, with a 53.0% win rate. Thus, Lissandra makes a good counter for Samira.
While Lissandra does have a higher winrate than Samira, when facing one another, Lissandra also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champ to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Lissandra into Samira.
Moreover, Lissandra also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Samira. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Lissandra vs Samira matchups, Lissandra is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Lissandra is a good counter to Samira. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Lissandra against Samira.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Lissandra in order 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lissandra on average picks up a similar amount of CS as Samira. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Lissandra versus Samira build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Lissandra combined at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting Samira than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Lissandra had an average win rate of 53.0% when countering Samira with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Samira as Lissandra, you should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Lissandra vs Samira clashes, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 53.0% winrate overall.
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