Katarina vs Samira
How to Beat Samira as Katarina
based on 6,054 Katarina vs Samira matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Samira Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Samira Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Samira as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Samira
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Katarina vs Samira Counter Stats
How to Counter Samira with Katarina in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show some important Katarina vs. Samira counter stats that can help you understand the differences between these two champions. For instance, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Samira’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Samira..
Katarina typically has a similar longest killing spree as her matchup does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Samira. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Katarina and Samira
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Who is Better, Katarina or Samira?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually loses when trying to fight Samira, with a 48.8% win rate. Thus, Katarina makes a bad counter to Samira.
While Katarina does have a lower winrate than Samira, when facing one another, Katarina also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Katarina into Samiraas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Katarina also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Samira. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Samira matchups, Samira is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Katarina is a somewhat poor counter for Samira. Focus your tactics on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Katarina against Samira.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Katarina 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 lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Samira. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Katarina versus Samira build consist of Lich Bane, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Katarina bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better versus Samira than with many other common builds. In fact, Katarina had an average winrate of 48.8% when playing against Samira with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Samira as Katarina, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Katarina vs Samira face-offs, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.8% win rate overall.
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