Trundle is very powerful at location-based combat. Try to draw him off of his Frozen Domain.
Make sure to get out of his Pillar of Ice as quickly as possible, as it significantly slows you down.
The stats shown on this page clarify several influential Samira against Trundle counter statistics that can help us understand the differences between the pair. As an example, Samira’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Trundle’s ratio of NaN, showing that Samira may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Trundle. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Samira normally has a much larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. Typically, she receives less damage than Trundle. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Samira usually loses when playing against Trundle, with a 45.7% win rate. Thus, Samira makes a bad counter for Trundle.
While Samira does have a much lower winrate than Trundle, when on opposite teams, Samira also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging character to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Samira into Trundle.
Furthermore, Samira also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Trundle. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Samira vs Trundle matchups, Trundle is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Samira is a bad counter to Trundle. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Samira against Trundle.
To learn all of the intricacies of Samira in order to counter Trundle during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Samira typically accumulates a similar amount of CS as Trundle. Champions who on average don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The best items to use in your Samira versus Trundle build consist of Guardian Angel, Bloodthirster, and The Collector. When Samira included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better countering Trundle than with most other common item sets. In fact, Samira had an average winrate of 45.7% when countering Trundle with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of beating Trundle as Samira, Samira players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Treasure Hunter, and Sudden Impact runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Samira vs Trundle counters, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.7% winrate overall.
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