Mordekaiser builds up a powerful damage aura when fighting champions, so keep your distance.
Realm of Death will cut you off from your teammates completely. Try to save mobility spells to escape Mordekaiser once inside
Damage he deals can be converted into a large shield, and consumed for health
The stats shown here highlight some important Samira vs. Mordekaiser counter statistics that can help us figure out the differences between this pair of champions. For instance, Samira’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Mordekaiser’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Samira may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Mordekaiser..
Samira often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her counter does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Mordekaiser. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Samira usually loses when facing off against Mordekaiser, with a 48.6% win rate. As a result, Samira makes a poor counter to Mordekaiser.
While Samira does have a lower win rate than Mordekaiser, when on opposite teams, Samira also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Samira into Mordekaiser.
Moreover, Samira also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Mordekaiser. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Samira vs Mordekaiser matchups, Mordekaiser 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 somewhat poor counter to Mordekaiser. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Samira against Mordekaiser.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Samira in order to counter Mordekaiser during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Samira usually gets a similar amount of CS compared to Mordekaiser. Champions who typically don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to have in your Samira versus Mordekaiser build include Immortal Shieldbow, Bloodthirster, and The Collector. When Samira incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did much better countering Mordekaiser than with many other typical builds. In fact, Samira had an average winrate of 48.6% battling Mordekaiser with this build.
To have the best probability of defeating Mordekaiser 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 players used for Samira vs Mordekaiser fights, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.6% win rate overall.
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