Xayah vs Samira
How to Beat Samira as Xayah
based on 4,964 Xayah vs Samira matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Xayah vs Samira Matchup Summary
Best Xayah vs Samira Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Samira as Xayah
Tips for Playing as Xayah against Samira
Xayah's attacks and abilities leave Feathers on the ground that she can later recall for massive area damage and control.
Xayah can use Featherstorm to dodge almost any ability while also creating a ton of Feathers. Try to utilize the offensive and defensive aspects of this ability.
Xayah vs Samira Counter Stats
How to Counter Samira with Xayah in LoL
The stats shown here feature some vital Xayah versus Samira matchup statistics that may help us realize the differences between these two champs. As an example, Xayah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Samira’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Xayah may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Samira..
Xayah usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Samira. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Xayah and Samira
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Who is Better, Xayah or Samira?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Xayah usually wins when playing against Samira, with a 52.8% win rate. Therefore, Xayah makes a good counter for Samira.
While Xayah does have a higher winrate compared to Samira, when they face off with one another, Xayah also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Xayah into Samira.
Furthermore, Xayah has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Samira. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Xayah vs Samira matchups, Xayah is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Xayah is a good counter for Samira. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Xayah against Samira.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Xayah to counter Samira during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xayah typically racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Samira. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Xayah versus Samira build include Navori Quickblades, Kraken Slayer, and Immortal Shieldbow. When Xayah bought at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better countering Samira than with most other common item sets. In fact, Xayah had an average winrate of 52.8% when countering Samira with this counter build.
To have the best probability of crushing Samira as Xayah, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Xayah vs Samira counter picks, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.8% win rate overall.
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