The stats shown here emphasize some influential Samira versus Sett matchup stats that may help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Samira’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Sett’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Samira may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Sett. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Samira normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her counter does. Typically, she receives less damage than Sett. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Samira usually loses when taking on Sett, with a 47.0% win rate. Therefore, Samira makes a bad counter for Sett.
While Samira does have a lower win rate compared to Sett, when facing one another, Samira also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging character to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Samira into Sett.
Additionally, Samira has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Sett. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Samira vs Sett matchups, Sett is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Samira is a bad counter for Sett. Focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Samira against Sett.
If you would like to truly master Samira in order to counter Sett during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Samira typically picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Sett. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Samira versus Sett build consist of Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and Immortal Shieldbow. When Samira combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better against Sett than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Samira boasted an average winrate of 47.0% battling Sett with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating Sett as Samira, Samira players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Samira vs Sett fights, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.0% win rate overall.
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