The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several important Qiyana against Samira counter statistics that may help you understand the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Qiyana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Samira’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Qiyana may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Samira..
Qiyana often has a similar longest kill spree as her enemy does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Samira. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Qiyana usually loses when taking on Samira, with a 48.8% win rate. Thus, Qiyana makes a bad counter to Samira.
While Qiyana does have a lower win rate than Samira, when facing one another, Qiyana also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Qiyana into Samiraas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Qiyana has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Samira. This 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 overall in League of Legends, in Qiyana vs Samira matchups, Samira is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Qiyana is a somewhat poor counter for Samira. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Qiyana against Samira.
To learn all of the intricacies of Qiyana in order to counter Samira during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Qiyana most often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Samira. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Qiyana versus Samira build include Youmus Geistklinge, Saum der Nacht, and Gelegenheit. When Qiyana incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did much better vs Samira than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Qiyana boasted an average win rate of 48.8% battling Samira with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Samira as Qiyana, Qiyana players should take the Elektrisieren, Plötzlicher Einschlag, Argus' Vermächtnis, Schatzjäger, Geistesgegenwart, and Letztes Gefecht runes from the Dominanz and Präzision rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Qiyana vs Samira matchups, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.8% win rate overall.
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