The stats shown here highlight some important Samira against Qiyana counter stats that may help us explain the differences and similarities between the pair. Samira’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Qiyana’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Samira may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Qiyana..
Samira typically has a similar longest killing spree as her matchup does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Qiyana. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Samira usually wins when playing against Qiyana, with a 51.2% win rate. Therefore, Samira makes a good counter for Qiyana.
While Samira does have a higher winrate compared to Qiyana, when on opposite teams, Samira also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Samira into Qiyana.
Moreover, Samira also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Qiyana. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Samira vs Qiyana matchups, Samira is the better champ with a higher 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 decent counter for Qiyana. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Samira against Qiyana.
To learn all of the intricacies of Samira to counter Qiyana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Samira usually accumulates a similar amount of CS as Qiyana. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Samira versus Qiyana build consist of Ángel de la guarda, Filo infinito, and Recaudadora. When Samira combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better countering Qiyana than with most other common item sets. In fact, Samira had an average winrate of 51.2% when countering Qiyana with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Qiyana 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. Of all the runes we have analyed for Samira vs Qiyana battles, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.2% win rate overall.
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