The stats shown here show several influential Samira vs. Nilah counter stats that may help you explain the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Samira’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nilah’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Samira may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Nilah..
Samira typically has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Nilah. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Samira usually loses when facing off against Nilah, with a 45.4% win rate. Thus, Samira makes a bad counter for Nilah.
While Samira does have a much lower winrate than Nilah, when facing one another, Samira also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Samira into Nilah.
Furthermore, Samira has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nilah. 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Samira vs Nilah matchups, Nilah is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Samira is a bad counter for Nilah. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Samira against Nilah.
To truly master Samira in order to counter Nilah during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Samira most often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Nilah. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Samira versus Nilah build include Klinge der Unendlichkeit, Blutdürster, and Schildbogen der Unsterblichkeit. When Samira used at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better vs Nilah than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Samira boasted an average winrate of 45.4% when playing against Nilah with this counter build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Nilah as Samira, Samira players should take the Eroberer, Triumph, Legende: Blutdurst, Letztes Gefecht, Plötzlicher Einschlag, and Schatzjäger runes from the Präzision and Dominanz rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Samira vs Nilah fights, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 45.4% winrate overall.
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