Samira vs Brand
How to Beat Brand as Samira
based on 10,300 Samira vs Brand matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Samira vs Brand Matchup Summary
Best Samira vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Brand as Samira
Advice to Win Against Brand
Brand's passive allows him to excel against teams that cluster together. Be sure to split up against him.
Brand must land an ability before his combo is able to get started. Dodging his Sear or Pillar of Flame will disrupt his rhythm.
Try to move away from allies when you see Pyroclasm being cast. The initial missile speed is slow, which should give your team time to react.
Samira vs Brand Counter Stats
How to Counter Brand with Samira in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some vital Samira against Brand counter stats that may help us realize the distinctions between the two. For instance, Samira’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Brand’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Samira may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Brand. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Samira typically has a much larger longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Brand. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Samira and Brand
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Who is Better, Samira or Brand?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Samira usually loses when trying to fight Brand, with a 47.4% win rate. As a result, Samira makes a bad counter for Brand.
While Samira does have a lower winrate than Brand, when they face off with one another, Samira also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Samira into Brand.
Moreover, Samira has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Brand. This 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Samira vs Brand matchups, Brand is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Samira is a bad counter to Brand. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Samira against Brand.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Samira to counter Brand during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Samira often gets more CS relative to Brand. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Samira versus Brand build include Guardian Angel, Infinity Edge, and Bloodthirster. When Samira used at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better against Brand than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Samira boasted an average win rate of 47.4% battling Brand with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating Brand as Samira, Samira players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Samira vs Brand clashes, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Brand as Samira are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you can use the selection menu located at the top of this page.