The stats provided here underscore some strategic Samira versus Viego counter statistics that may help us figure out the distinctions between this set of champions. As an example, Samira’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Viego’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Samira may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Viego..
Samira often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her foe does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Viego. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Samira usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Viego, with a 49.5% win rate. Thus, Samira makes an ok counter for Viego.
While Samira does have a lower winrate compared to Viego, when facing one another, Samira also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Samira into Viego.
Furthermore, Samira has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Viego. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Samira vs Viego matchups, Viego is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Samira is a somewhat poor counter to Viego. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Samira against Viego.
To truly master Samira in order to counter Viego 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 presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Samira usually racks up much more CS compared to Viego. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Samira versus Viego build include Ange gardien, Lame d'infini, and Arc-bouclier immortel. When Samira bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better vs Viego than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Samira boasted an average win rate of 49.5% when playing against Viego with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Viego as Samira, you should equip the Conquérant, Triomphe, Légende : sangsue, Baroud d'honneur, Plaque d'os, and Revitalisation runes from the Précision and Volonté rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Samira vs Viego counter picks, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Viego as Samira are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.