Bard vs Samira
How to Beat Samira as Bard
based on 4,908 Bard vs Samira matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Samira Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Samira as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Samira
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
Bard vs Samira Counter Stats
How to Counter Samira with Bard in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify several valuable Bard against Samira counter statistics that may help us figure out the distinctions between the two. As an example, Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Samira’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Samira. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Bard usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he takes 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 agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Bard and Samira
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Who is Better, Bard or Samira?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Bard usually wins when trying to fight Samira, with a 53.4% win rate. Therefore, Bard makes a great counter for Samira.
While Bard does have a higher winrate than Samira, when they face off with one another, Bard also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn. You should be be fine when picking Bard into Samiraas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Bard also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Samira. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Bard vs Samira matchups, Bard is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Bard is a great counter to Samira. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Bard against Samira.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Bard in order to counter Samira during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard on average accumulates a lot less CS as Samira. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to use in your Bard versus Samira build include Trailblazer, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting Samira than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Bard boasted an average winrate of 53.4% battling Samira with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Samira as Bard, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Bard vs Samira fights, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 53.4% winrate overall.
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