Tristana vs Samira
How to Beat Samira as Tristana
based on 5,852 Tristana vs Samira matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tristana vs Samira Matchup Summary
Best Tristana vs Samira Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Samira as Tristana
Tips for Playing as Tristana against Samira
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
Tristana vs Samira Counter Stats
How to Counter Samira with Tristana in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some critical Tristana against Samira matchup statistics that may help us grasp the distinctions between the two. Tristana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Samira’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Tristana may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Samira..
Tristana often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her foe does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Samira. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Tristana and Samira
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Who is Better, Tristana or Samira?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Tristana usually loses when taking on Samira, with a 48.3% win rate. As a result, Tristana makes a bad counter for Samira.
While Tristana does have a lower win rate compared to Samira, when they face off with one another, Tristana also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Tristana into Samira.
Additionally, Tristana also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Samira. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Tristana vs Samira matchups, Samira is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Tristana is a somewhat poor counter to Samira. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Tristana against Samira.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Tristana in order to counter Samira during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tristana on average accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Samira. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Tristana versus Samira build include Phantom Dancer, Bloodthirster, and Kraken Slayer. When Tristana included at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better vs Samira than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Tristana boasted an average winrate of 48.3% battling Samira with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of beating Samira as Tristana, Tristana players should equip the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Legend: Bloodline, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Tristana vs Samira fights, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Samira as Tristana are shown for all skill levels combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.