Samira vs Ahri
How to Beat Ahri as Samira
based on 5,152 Samira vs Ahri matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Samira vs Ahri Matchup Summary
Best Samira vs Ahri Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ahri as Samira
Advice to Win Against Ahri
Stay behind minions to make Charm difficult to land, this will reduce Ahri's damage potential significantly.
Ahri's survivability is dramatically reduced when her Ultimate, Spirit Rush, is down.
Samira vs Ahri Counter Stats
How to Counter Ahri with Samira in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several important Samira against Ahri matchup stats that may help you explain the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Samira’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Ahri’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Samira may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Ahri. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Samira normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her counter does. Typically, she takes more damage than Ahri. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Samira and Ahri
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Who is Better, Samira or Ahri?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Samira usually wins when playing against Ahri, with a 51.4% win rate. As a result, Samira makes a good counter to Ahri.
While Samira does have a higher win rate than Ahri, when on opposite teams, Samira also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Samira into Ahri.
Moreover, Samira has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ahri. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Samira vs Ahri matchups, Samira is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Samira is a decent counter to Ahri. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Samira against Ahri.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Samira to counter Ahri 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 listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Samira on average picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Ahri. Champions who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to use in your Samira versus Ahri build consist of Bloodthirster, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Samira incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better vs Ahri than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Samira had an average winrate of 51.4% battling Ahri with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating Ahri as Samira, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Samira vs Ahri counterpicks, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.4% win rate overall.
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