Nidalee vs Samira
How to Beat Samira as Nidalee
based on 1,108 Nidalee vs Samira matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Samira Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Samira Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Samira as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Samira
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
Nidalee vs Samira Counter Stats
How to Counter Samira with Nidalee in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore several strategic Nidalee versus Samira counter stats that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Samira’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Samira..
Nidalee often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Samira. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nidalee and Samira
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Samira?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when facing off against Samira, with a 47.3% win rate. Therefore, Nidalee makes a poor counter to Samira.
While Nidalee does have a lower winrate compared to Samira, when they face off with one another, Nidalee also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult character to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Nidalee into Samiraas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Nidalee also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Samira. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nidalee 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 allies during team fights.
Nidalee is a bad counter for Samira. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Nidalee against Samira.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee to counter Samira during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee on average gets a lot less CS compared to Samira. Champions who on average don't take much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Nidalee versus Samira build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee bought at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting Samira than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Nidalee had an average win rate of 47.3% when countering Samira with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of beating Samira as Nidalee, you should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Nidalee vs Samira counter picks, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.3% winrate overall.
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