The stats shown here emphasize several significant Samira against Nilah matchup stats that may help you interpret the differences between the pair. As an example, Samira’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nilah’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Samira may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Nilah..
Samira normally has a similar longest killing spree as her opponent does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Nilah. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Samira usually loses when playing against Nilah, with a 47.3% win rate. Therefore, Samira makes a poor counter for Nilah.
While Samira does have a lower winrate compared to Nilah, when they face off with one another, Samira also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex character to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Samira into Nilah.
Moreover, Samira also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nilah. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Samira vs Nilah matchups, Nilah is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Samira is a trash counter for Nilah. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Samira against Nilah.
If you would like to truly master Samira in order to counter Nilah during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Samira usually racks up a similar amount of CS as Nilah. Champs who typically don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Samira versus Nilah build include Arco-escudo Imortal, Sedenta por Sangue, and A Coletora. When Samira combined at least these three items in her build, she did much better versus Nilah than with many other common builds. In fact, Samira had an average win rate of 47.3% when playing against Nilah with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Nilah as Samira, you should equip the Conquistador, Triunfo, Lenda: Linhagem, Até a Morte, Caçador de Tesouros, and Globos Oculares runes from the Precisão and Dominação rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Samira vs Nilah counter picks, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.3% win rate overall.
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