The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some vital Samira vs. Nilah matchup statistics that may help you distinguish the distinctions between the two. As an example, Samira’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nilah’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Samira may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Nilah..
Samira typically has a similar longest killing spree as her enemy does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Nilah. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Samira usually loses when facing off against Nilah, with a 45.4% win rate. As a result, Samira makes a bad counter to Nilah.
While Samira does have a much lower winrate than Nilah, when on opposite teams, Samira also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less complex champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Samira into Nilah.
Moreover, Samira also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nilah. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall 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 teammates during teamfights.
Samira is a terribly counter for Nilah. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Samira against Nilah.
If you would like to truly master Samira to counter Nilah during both the lane 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 mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Samira most often accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Nilah. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Samira versus Nilah build include Filo infinito, Sanguinaria, and Arcoescudo inmortal. When Samira included at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when fighting Nilah than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Samira boasted an average winrate of 45.4% when playing against Nilah with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Nilah as Samira, you should take the Conquistador, Triunfo, Leyenda: Linaje, Último esfuerzo, Impacto repentino, and Cazador de tesoros runes from the Precisión and Dominación rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Samira vs Nilah LoL games, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.4% winrate overall.
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