Thresh vs Samira
How to Beat Samira as Thresh
based on 6,655 Thresh vs Samira matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Thresh vs Samira Matchup Summary
Best Thresh vs Samira Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Samira as Thresh
Tips for Playing as Thresh against Samira
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
Thresh vs Samira Counter Stats
How to Counter Samira with Thresh in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some strategic Thresh vs. Samira matchup stats that may help us explain the differences between these two champs. For instance, Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Samira’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Samira. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Thresh often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Samira. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Thresh and Samira
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Who is Better, Thresh or Samira?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Thresh usually fairs equally well when taking on Samira, with a 49.8% win rate. Therefore, Thresh makes an ok counter for Samira.
While Thresh does have a lower winrate than Samira, when on opposite teams, Thresh also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Thresh into Samiraas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Thresh has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Samira. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Thresh vs Samira matchups, Samira is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Thresh is a somewhat poor counter to Samira. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Thresh against Samira.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Thresh to counter Samira during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh typically gets a lot less CS compared to Samira. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Thresh versus Samira build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Thornmail, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Thresh included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when facing Samira than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Thresh had an average winrate of 49.8% battling Samira with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Samira as Thresh, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Thresh vs Samira face-offs, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.8% winrate overall.
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