Akshan vs Samira
How to Beat Samira as Akshan
based on 3,228 Akshan vs Samira matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akshan vs Samira Matchup Summary
Best Akshan vs Samira Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Samira as Akshan
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Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
Akshan vs Samira Counter Stats
How to Counter Samira with Akshan in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some critical Akshan vs. Samira counter statistics that may help you understand the distinctions between the two. As an example, Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Samira’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Samira..
Akshan usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than their foe does. On average, they receives a similar amount of damage to Samira. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Akshan and Samira
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Who is Better, Akshan or Samira?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Akshan usually loses when playing against Samira, with a 46.6% win rate. Therefore, Akshan makes a poor counter for Samira.
While Akshan does have a lower winrate compared to Samira, when they face off with one another, Akshan also has a much lower learning curve that makes them a less time consuming champ to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Akshan into Samira.
Moreover, Akshan has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Samira. This 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Samira matchups, Samira is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Akshan is a terribly counter to Samira. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Akshan against Samira.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Akshan in order to counter Samira during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan on average accumulates a similar amount of CS as Samira. Champions who on average don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The top items to use in your Akshan versus Samira build consist of Guinsoo's Rageblade, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Akshan incorporated at least these three pieces in their build, they did much better against Samira than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Akshan had an average win rate of 46.6% when playing against Samira with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Samira as Akshan, you should take the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Bone Plating, and Shield Bash runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Akshan vs Samira counterpicks, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Samira as Akshan are given for all skill levels combined. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a particular rank, you can use the selection menu at the top of this page.