The stats shown on this page underscore several strategic Nilah versus Samira matchup stats that can help us grasp the differences between these two champs. As an example, Nilah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Samira’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nilah may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Samira..
Nilah usually has a similar longest kill spree as their counter does. Typically, they receives a similar amount of damage to Samira. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nilah usually wins when trying to fight Samira, with a 54.6% win rate. Thus, Nilah makes a great counter for Samira.
While Nilah does have a much higher win rate compared to Samira, when facing one another, Nilah also has a much greater difficulty level that makes them a more difficult character to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Nilah into Samiraas their relative depth means you may not be able to unleash their full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Nilah also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Samira. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Nilah vs Samira matchups, Nilah is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Nilah is a great counter for Samira. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nilah against Samira.
To truly master Nilah in order to counter Samira during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nilah usually racks up a similar amount of CS as Samira. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Nilah versus Samira build include Schutzengel, Hastklingen der Navori, and Der Sammler. When Nilah included at least these three items in their build, they did much better against Samira than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Nilah boasted an average win rate of 54.6% when countering Samira with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Samira as Nilah, you should take the Eroberer, Triumph, Legende: Blutdurst, Letztes Gefecht, Plötzlicher Einschlag, and Schatzjäger runes from the Präzision and Dominanz rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Nilah vs Samira matchups, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 54.6% winrate overall.
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