Samira vs Anivia
How to Beat Anivia as Samira
based on 2,515 Samira vs Anivia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Samira vs Anivia Matchup Summary
Best Samira vs Anivia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Anivia as Samira
Advice to Win Against Anivia
Try to gank Anivia when she's laning. With multiple people, it is easier to ensure that her egg dies.
If you're playing a ranged champion, stay far enough away from Anivia so you can dodge Flash Frost more easily.
Try to fight Anivia in the lanes. In the jungle she can block pathways with lower ranks of Crystallize.
Samira vs Anivia Counter Stats
How to Counter Anivia with Samira in LoL
The stats shown here feature some valuable Samira against Anivia counter stats that can help you appreciate the differences and similarities between this set of champions. Samira’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Anivia’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Samira may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Anivia. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Samira usually has a much larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Anivia. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Samira and Anivia
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Who is Better, Samira or Anivia?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Samira usually loses when playing against Anivia, with a 47.4% win rate. As a result, Samira makes a bad counter to Anivia.
While Samira does have a lower win rate than Anivia, when they face off with one another, Samira also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult champ to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Samira into Anivia.
Moreover, Samira also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Anivia. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Samira vs Anivia matchups, Anivia is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Samira is a bad counter to Anivia. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Samira against Anivia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Samira to counter Anivia during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Samira often gets a similar amount of CS compared to Anivia. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to use in your Samira versus Anivia build consist of Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and Immortal Shieldbow. When Samira incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better versus Anivia than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Samira had an average winrate of 47.4% when countering Anivia with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Anivia as Samira, Samira players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Samira vs Anivia matchups, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.4% win rate overall.
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