The stats provided here emphasize some significant Samira vs. Nilah matchup statistics that can help you appreciate the differences and similarities between this set of champions. For instance, Samira’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nilah’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Samira may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Nilah..
Samira normally has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Nilah. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Samira usually loses when trying to fight Nilah, with a 47.3% win rate. Therefore, Samira makes a poor counter to Nilah.
While Samira does have a lower win rate compared to Nilah, when facing one another, Samira also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less complex champion to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Samira into Nilah.
Additionally, Samira also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nilah. 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 in League of Legends, in Samira vs Nilah matchups, Nilah is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Samira is a bad counter for Nilah. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Samira against Nilah.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Samira to counter Nilah during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed 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 Nilah. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions 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, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Samira versus Nilah build consist of Immortal Shieldbow, Bloodthirster, and The Collector. When Samira combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better vs Nilah than with many other common builds. In fact, Samira boasted an average winrate of 47.3% when countering Nilah with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Nilah as Samira, Samira players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Treasure Hunter, and Eyeball Collection runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Samira vs Nilah counterpicks, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.3% winrate overall.
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