Samira vs Viktor
How to Beat Viktor as Samira
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Samira vs Viktor Matchup Summary
Best Samira vs Viktor Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Viktor as Samira
Advice to Win Against Viktor
Be careful about how close you let Viktor get to you. Viktor's control of the battlefield increases with his proximity to his opponent.
Be aware of how many augments Viktor has upgraded by looking at the color of the light on his staff (purple, yellow, blue, red).
Samira vs Viktor Counter Stats
How to Counter Viktor with Samira in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some critical Samira versus Viktor counter statistics that can help you distinguish the distinctions between the two. For instance, Samira’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Viktor’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Samira may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Viktor..
Samira normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her foe does. Typically, she takes more damage than Viktor. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Samira and Viktor
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Who is Better, Samira or Viktor?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Samira usually loses when facing off against Viktor, with a 48.0% win rate. As a result, Samira makes a poor counter to Viktor.
While Samira does have a lower winrate compared to Viktor, when on opposite teams, Samira also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming champ to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Samira into Viktor.
Moreover, Samira also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Viktor. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Samira vs Viktor matchups, Viktor 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 late stage team fights.
Samira is a terribly counter for Viktor. Focus your actions on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Samira against Viktor.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Samira to counter Viktor during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Samira usually picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Viktor. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Samira versus Viktor build include Immortal Shieldbow, Infinity Edge, and Bloodthirster. When Samira combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when fighting Viktor than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Samira had an average win rate of 48.0% when countering Viktor with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Viktor 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 sets players used for Samira vs Viktor battles, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.0% winrate overall.
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