Zyra vs Samira
How to Beat Samira as Zyra
based on 7,297 Zyra vs Samira matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zyra vs Samira Matchup Summary
Best Zyra vs Samira Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Samira as Zyra
Tips for Playing as Zyra against Samira
Seeds grant vision to your team.
Placing a seed in your spell's path after you have cast it gives you the best chance of having a seed in the proper spot.
Zyra is a great ambusher - look for opportunities to set a trap of seeds in brush, then lure enemies in.
Zyra vs Samira Counter Stats
How to Counter Samira with Zyra in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several valuable Zyra against Samira matchup statistics that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Zyra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Samira’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zyra may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Samira. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Zyra usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her foe does. On average, she receives less damage than Samira. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zyra and Samira
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Who is Better, Zyra or Samira?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zyra usually wins when trying to fight Samira, with a 55.1% win rate. Therefore, Zyra makes a fantastic counter to Samira.
While Zyra does have a much higher win rate compared to Samira, when facing one another, Zyra also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Zyra into Samiraas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Zyra also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Samira. 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 Zyra vs Samira matchups, Zyra is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Zyra is a great counter to Samira. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zyra against Samira.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zyra in order to counter Samira during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn 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 by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zyra most often picks up a lot less CS compared to Samira. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They 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, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Zyra versus Samira build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Shadowflame, and Liandry's Torment. When Zyra included at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better against Samira than with most other typical builds. In fact, Zyra boasted an average winrate of 55.1% battling Samira with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of beating Samira as Zyra, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Taste of Blood, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Zyra vs Samira matchups, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 55.1% win rate overall.
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