Taliyah vs Samira
How to Beat Samira as Taliyah
based on 2,014 Taliyah vs Samira matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Taliyah vs Samira Matchup Summary
Best Taliyah vs Samira Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Samira as Taliyah
Tips for Playing as Taliyah against Samira
Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.
Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.
Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.
Taliyah vs Samira Counter Stats
How to Counter Samira with Taliyah in LoL
The stats shown here highlight some vital Taliyah versus Samira counter stats that may help you interpret the differences between the pair. Taliyah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Samira’s ratio of NaN, showing that Taliyah may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Samira. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Taliyah usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. On average, she receives less damage than Samira. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Taliyah and Samira
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Who is Better, Taliyah or Samira?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Taliyah usually wins when playing against Samira, with a 53.4% win rate. Therefore, Taliyah makes a great counter for Samira.
While Taliyah does have a higher winrate than Samira, when facing one another, Taliyah also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging character to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Taliyah into Samira.
Furthermore, Taliyah also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Samira. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Taliyah vs Samira matchups, Taliyah is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Taliyah is a great counter for Samira. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Taliyah against Samira.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Taliyah 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 listen to the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taliyah typically gets a similar amount of CS as Samira. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Taliyah versus Samira build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Taliyah incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did much better when fighting Samira than with most other common item sets. In fact, Taliyah had an average winrate of 53.4% when playing against Samira with this build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Samira as Taliyah, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Taliyah vs Samira LoL games, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 53.4% win rate overall.
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